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Good Bye YYHX Updates, Hello Windows Checkpoint

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 19:14:22 +0000

Microsoft is yet again changing how you get Windows Updates, to save bandwidth and storage space while likely making it more difficult to determine exactly what update you might have received. Windows…

Microsoft’s Next Surprise; OneDrive Backups Automatically Enabled

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:17:46 +0000

Microsoft is giving their users plenty of surprises this week. Yesterday it was hiding how to use a local account instead of Microsoft account and today it is secretly enabling OneDrive on…

Microsoft Is Hiding Local Account Setup Instructions for Windows 11

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 17:25:53 +0000

Microsoft really wants you to use a Microsoft Account to activate your Windows 11 install and has been steadily working to hide any mention of setting up a local account instead. They…

Is There An Outlook Bug Allowing You To Spoof Any Email Domain?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:43:16 +0000

There may be a very disturbing Outlook bug which allows you to send emails that legitimately appear to be from any user@domain. The person who discovered this can only make it work…

It Was A Light Patch Tuesday, But One Addresses A 9.8

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:47:07 +0000

Another Patch Tuesday has come and gone, or at least it has if you rebooted to install the updates. You should probably get on that if you haven't already, as there is…

Microsoft Can Remember It for You Wholesale With Their New Built In Screen Logger

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 22 May 2024 16:53:54 +0000

Today Microsoft announced Windows 11 Recall for Copilot+ PCs, billed as a handy way for you to recall information you've looked for using your PC. What it actually will be is…

Passkey Authentication Comes To Personal Microsoft Accounts

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 03 May 2024 17:39:30 +0000

The first Thursday of May has now become World Password Day, perhaps not the most exciting annual event but one which more people should pay attention to. In recognition of the event…

Microsoft’s April Patches Bring NTLM And VPN Crashes

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:40:21 +0000

If you were responsible and installed KB5036893 for Windows 11 and use a VPN, you might have started seeing some very unwanted behaviour. The April 2024 security update is causing VPN…

Microsoft Keeps On Giving, Now Displaying A Watermark If You’re AI Deficient

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:47:11 +0000

Redmond is just cranking out the brilliant ideas, managing to come up with a new feature that beats out their ad supported Start Menu for sheer obnoxiousness. As we mentioned earlier this…

Wing Commander III Changed Windows Forever

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:52:37 +0000

There was a wonderful time in the past, where Microsoft did their beta testing internally instead of forcing their paying customers to do it for them. In those days of yore, a…

Microsoft’s Thanksgiving 2025 Massacree

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:21:17 +0000

Microsoft is gifting us with an interesting October this year, with quite a few of their products hitting end of life. As you should already be aware, on October 14, 2025…

One True Super Resolution To Rule Them?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:14 +0000

We have three different and incompatibly ways to upscale our displays to get the beauty of 4k without a huge performance hit. It all depends on which GPU you happened to pick…

Microsoft Patches Some Patches And Blocks Windows 11 23H2 For Some

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 18:43:37 +0000

Those that use multiple monitors on a Home edition of Win10/11 and who didn't just immediately block Copilot for Windows have noticed their desktop icons started wandering around. They would jump from…

BitLocker Gets Pi All Over It’s Face As A Pico Cracks The Encryption Key

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:20:50 +0000

As far a security nightmares go, being able to crack BitLocker encryption with a Raspberry Pi Pico in less than a minute is pretty high up there. Thankfully there are some caveats…

Running Windows 10 On Older Hardware? Sorry About Those App Updates

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:16:53 +0000

Microsoft frequently updates the apps on your machine, with no official KB or indication on Windows Update and while generally it is invisible to us users. Unfortunately some recent updates for apps…

Podcast #758 – NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER, Process Node Marketing vs. Reality, Fosi ZA3 Amp, Infosec fails and MORE

PCPer Staff — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 03:15:09 +0000

Another week, another NVIDIA SUPER launch. But this is the last one, we promise. (We hope.) You probably already know it's barely any faster than the original, but it's $200 less (in…

Edge Is Taking Over Chrome Yet Again

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:01:49 +0000

Edge has found a new way to usurp your browser of choice, at least if it is Chrome. There has been no official documentation of this change, nor did Microsoft respond…

Microsoft Teams Has A Bit Of A Wobble

Jeremy Hellstrom — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:09:17 +0000

If you are having issues with Microsoft Teams, you are not alone and more importantly it's not your fault. Shortly over an hour ago Microsoft posted an incident that is affecting…

Run Virtual Windows On An M-Series Mac

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:19:30 +0000

If you are jealous of the fancy new hardware Apple runs their system on, but are constitutionally opposed to learning how to use a Mac then you now have a solution. You…

A Peek At The New Windows 11; USB4 Gen2 In WordPad Out

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:14:34 +0000

If you are curious what is in store for you in the next major Windows 11 feature update other than Copilot automatically launching at boot if you have a large enough screen,…