Tag: Microsoft
Updating The Expiring Secure Boot Certificates Is Sure To Go Without A Hitch
The root certificates used for Microsoft's Secure Boot, to ensure only signed and trusted bootloaders are allowed to launch on UEFI devices expire in June. This is for any and all devices…
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Microsoft Accepts Their Desperate Need For An Engineering Quality Czar
It has been just two days since the live broadcast of the latest PCPer podcast and it seems Microsoft and Satya Nadella finally took our advice. We have been stressing the need…
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A Handy Guide To Make Windows 11 Less Awful
Windows 11 continues to provide a never ending source of frustration for those of us that know how we want our computer set up and are willing to fight to make it…
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Microsoft’s Bounty Program … Improves It’s Scope?
Anyone who has dealt with Microsoft's support services knows that there is nothing one of their reps likes more than finding a piece of third party software to blame a bug on. …
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The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid Of The Start Menu And Explorer …
Microsoft's efforts to convince people to switch to Windows 11 continues to be spectacularly hilarious, at least for those who still have a working computer. While many of their updates are focused…
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Microsoft’s Notepad; The Best Advertisement For Notepad++ There is
Notepad used to be a lovely plain text editor, useful for stripping out odd formatting and characters from documents that had been through one too many conversions. You could usually count on…
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Microsoft Finally Makes Sysmon Native To Windows
Sysmon has been around for some time, but you've had to know what it is and how to install it. Currently you need to visit Microsoft's Sysinternals page, grab Sysmon and…
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Handy Tips On Cleaning Up Windows 11 25H2
The release of Windows 11 25H2 have inspired Ars Technica to update their guide on how to unclutter Microsoft's latest OS to get rid of the features you don't want. ...
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Weird Authentication Failures? Could Be That Microsoft Doesn’t Like Duplicate SIDs Anymore
This recent patch Tuesday added an unexpected new feature to Windows, the enforcement of unique SIDs across systems. If you dared clone an image onto a second machine on your network, or…
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And When You’re Down Here With Windows 11 OOBE … YOU’RE ONLINE TOO
Say goodbye to one of the last ways you could activate Windows 11 and avoid linking it to an online account. The start ms-cxh:localonly command has now been deprecated, much like the…
Read MorePodcast #838 – Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, Another Unlikely Intel Investor, CRT Revivals, Brave Security, EA Buyout + MORE!
Matching up the audio this week for a change of pace! That Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme sometimes compares favorably, there's a new Kindle Scribe and you will never guess who's coming to…
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Microsoft Enables Shadow IT By Letting People Sneak Their Personal Copilot Into Work
There has been a new and frustrating challenge for IT teams that just got worse, trying to prevent LLMs from stealing proprietary data. The easy part is setting up a firewalled version…
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Microsoft Is Investigating Adding Tiny Channels To CPUs For Cooling Via Microfluidics
Microsoft, that company which is not exactly famous for designing the most popular CPUs on the planet, thinks they've come up with something cool. They envision etching tiny channels into the silicon…
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It’s The End Of Win10 As We Know It
The countdown has been going for quite some time but we are now down to the final days of Win10 and older non-Cloudy Office versions. If you are running local versions of…
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Your SSD May Have Issues, But It’s Not Caused By Microsoft’s Recent Patch
Microsoft, along with Phison, have been conducting extensive tests to determine why drives which are over half full are failing during large copy operations. The one thing that does seem to be…
Read MorePodcast #834 – Win 11 Breaking SSDs, SoftBank Buys Into Intel, 720Hz OLED, Thrustmaster Hypercar, Cracking Abandonware, Asus 800w RTX 5090 + MORE!
This podcast is what happens when worlds collide. Such as Windows and SSDs. Or Microsoft and listening to users. Or Softbank and Intel. Oh, you want more? How about 720p and 720Hz…
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Oops, We Broke OBS Too!
The most recently discovered issue with Microsoft's latest batch of patches isn't quite as bad as storage devices you aren't allowed to move data to but it is certainly upsetting a lot…
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Microsoft Asking All Their Beta Testers … Err Customers … To Report Drive Failures Caused By KB5063878
Yesterday we saw reports of a variety of drives including Corsair Force MP600, Maxio SSD, SanDisk Extreme Pro, Kioxia Exceria Plus G4, and the Kioxia M.2, among others. These drives have either…
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