Time To Dump Windows For Gaming … Or No?
There are many gamers who use Microsoft Windows out of convenience; not because they want to. Recently Linux has become more feasible, with thousands of Steam games officially supporting that OS. …
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Windows Update And Shutdown Now Works As Advertised?
Amongst the other unwanted features which the release of Windows 10 gave us, was a bug with Windows Update. If you asked your machine to Update and Shutdown, it would instead act…
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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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Windows Snipping Tool Gets GIF-ed
Windows Snipping Tool is one of the many old apps that Microsoft is updating, much like what they have done to other classics like Notepad. They are testing out a new feature,…
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We Spoke Too Soon, There Was A Problem With Patch Tuesday … But It’s Better Now
Patch Tuesday seemed to go without a hitch, until it hit players of online games like Elder Rings, Fortnite and Apex Legends. They were seeing BSODs which lead to what was apparently…
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In The Future Windows Will Update All Your Apps And Your Smartphone Won’t Have Any Apps At All?
Microsoft have come up with a bold new plan to terrify systems administrators everywhere, a new update orchestration platform based on their Windows Update infrastructure. Their inspiration has come from...
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moricons.dll, A Remnant Of Windows 3.1 Lives On To This Day
When Windows goes through a major upgrade Microsoft is more likely to hide legacy features and files that to actually get rid of them. For instance, you may no longer see Disk…
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Microsoft Is Working On Getting Rid Of Passwords For Windows And O359
The world has a password problem that is getting worse by the second. With hordes of apps now requiring you to create a unique account to access them, with a unique password…
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Leave That inetpub Folder Alone, No Matter What Social Media Says
The internet is abuzz with various theories about how those dastardly evildoers at Microsoft are plotting to take over your life via an empty folder called inetpub they secretly installed on your…
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Windows MIDI Services With Full MIDI 2.0 Support Coming Soon
If you are a musician or just like to play with MIDI compatible devices then the new Windows 11 Insider Preview Canary Channel version has a special present for you. While it…
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Yet Another Windows 0-Day, Click-less For Your Convenience
Happy Friday, happy new Windows 0-day exploit. Today it is researchers from 0patch who discovered a way to ruin your day. This particular flaw will work on any system running Windows 7…
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The New, Improved, Ad Supported Windows Start Menu
Move over Roku, Microsoft has an even better idea! The optional update being fed to Windows Insiders, KB5036980, improves your Start Menu experience by showing you "great apps" available in...
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Run Virtual Windows On An M-Series Mac
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…
Read MorePodcast #729 – RTX 4060 Review, AMD Blocking DLSS?, Gaming Chairs, Fosi Audio V3 Amp, Security Bad News & MORE
We talk at some length about the RTX 4060 and competing products that offer a better value right now, plus other stuff like so much bad news in Security, Windows in the…
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Adding Linux To A Windows Laptop
We are starting to see a few companies such as Dell return to offering laptops which are running Linux, instead of Windows. There are also some Windows laptops which are advertised as…
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LemonDuck Still Sucks, It’s A Linux And Windows Miner That Isn’t Afraid To Learn New Skills
Lemonduck is not new malware, it has been driving sysadmins nuts since 2019 but some of what it does is rather unique. It started as a cryptocurrency miner which spread...
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The Terrible Tuesday For Both Linux And Windows Sysadmins
There are a pair of newly discovered vulnerabilities to add to the nightmares of sysadmins everywhere, both those running Windows and Linux infrastructures. In one case it is an issue...
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Microsoft Cancels Windows 10X – At Least For Now
It has been a couple of years since Microsoft announced Windows 10X, which was to be "the best of Windows 10 built to enable unique experiences on multi-posture dual-screen PCs",...
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