Tag: Microsoft
Good Bye YYHX Updates, Hello Windows Checkpoint
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…
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Microsoft’s Next Surprise; OneDrive Backups Automatically Enabled
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…
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Microsoft Is Hiding Local Account Setup Instructions for Windows 11
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…
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Is There An Outlook Bug Allowing You To Spoof Any Email Domain?
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…
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It Was A Light Patch Tuesday, But One Addresses A 9.8
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…
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Microsoft Can Remember It for You Wholesale With Their New Built In Screen Logger
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...
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Passkey Authentication Comes To Personal Microsoft Accounts
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…
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Microsoft’s April Patches Bring NTLM And VPN Crashes
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...
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Microsoft Keeps On Giving, Now Displaying A Watermark If You’re AI Deficient
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…
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Wing Commander III Changed Windows Forever
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…
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Microsoft’s Thanksgiving 2025 Massacree
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…
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One True Super Resolution To Rule Them?
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…
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Microsoft Patches Some Patches And Blocks Windows 11 23H2 For Some
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…
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BitLocker Gets Pi All Over It’s Face As A Pico Cracks The Encryption Key
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…
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Running Windows 10 On Older Hardware? Sorry About Those App Updates
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…
Read MorePodcast #758 – NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER, Process Node Marketing vs. Reality, Fosi ZA3 Amp, Infosec fails and MORE
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…
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Edge Is Taking Over Chrome Yet Again
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...
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Microsoft Teams Has A Bit Of A Wobble
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...
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