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Insider Builds in Slow Ring will get Updates soon
[German]Microsoft plans to modify his Windows Insider program in the future. Versions that have made it into the Slow Ring for testing by users will also get updates (like regular Windows 10 builds) in...
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Windows 10 V1809: Update KB4464455 for Insider
[German]Microsoft has just released the update KB4464455 for Windows Insiders testing Windows 10 V1809 in fast and slow ring. The update is intended to fix several bugs. Also a dynamic Update KB4466596...
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Windows: Update issues and –re-releases October 2018
[German]Microsoft has re-released its Flash October 2018 update for Windows 10 V1809. There are probably issues with the metadata of the Windows 7-October 2018 updates. And in the Microsoft Update...
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18262 (19H1)
On October 17, 2018 Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18262 from branch 19H1 in the Fast and Skip Ahead ring. The announcement was made within the Windows Blog, where you can also...
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Windows Update Error 0x8007042B
[German]Occasionally in Windows (especially under Windows 10) an update installation is aborted and the operating system drops the error code 0x8007042B. Here are some hints for correcting this error....
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Windows: RID Hijacking allows guests to become an Admin
[German]It seems that all Windows versions contains a kind of ‘vulnerability’ which allows to transfer user rights (administrator privileges) from another account to a Windows guest account. This is...
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Windows 7/8.1/Server Preview Updates (Oct. 18, 2018)
[German]On October 18, 2018 Microsoft released several (security) updates (KB4462927) for Windows 7 SP1 and further updates (KB4462921) for Windows 8.1 as well as the corresponding server versions....
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Windows 10 V1607, V1703, V1709 Updates (10/18/2018)
[German]Microsoft has released the updates KB4462932 (Windows 10 V1709), KB4462939 (Windows 10 Version 1703) and KB4462928 (Windows 10 Version 1607) as well as some dynamic updates as of October 18,...
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Windows 10 19H1 with Retpoline Spectre V2 Mitigation
[German]Surprise in Windows 10 Insider Preview 19H1: The kernel contains the Retpoline technology to protect it from Spectre V2 attack. This is to minimize the power loss caused by this protection....
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Windows 10: Information on deadlines for downgrade rights
[German]A brief information for users who want or need to downgrade from Windows 10 to a previous version of Windows. I have received a newsletter from an Swiss OEM with various information that might...
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Windows as a service: pretty broken by design?
Microsoft failed to release Windows 10 April 2018 Update free of accidents, and Microsoft failed to release Windows 10 October 2018 Update without an accident. I would say: This ‘Windows as a thing’ is...
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Windows 10 V1809: Write bug in ZIP feature
[German]Another (nasty) bug has become known in Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Version 1809). The internal ZIP function is more or less unusable, because it does not work reliably during unpacking. If...
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Windows 10 V1809: App error ‘The configuration registry database is corrupt’...
[German]Microsoft explained the error ‘The configuration registry database is corrupt’, which is triggered during launch of win32 store apps in Windows 10 V 1809. This error isn’t new, and it has been...
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Windows 10 V1809: Defender shows wrong time
[German]At this point only a short information in case someone is wondering. In Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Version 1809, Build 17763.55), Windows Defender shows a wrong time for signature updates...
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Windows 10 V1809: ZIP bug confirmed
Microsoft has confirmed the bug when unpacking ZIP files (existing files are not overwritten, but nothing is reported either) in Windows 10 V1809. The bug was known to Microsoft, is even fixed in...
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Windows 10: 0-Day-Exploit in Microsoft Data Sharing
[German]Twitter user @SandboxEscaper has once again disclosed a zero-day exploit in Windows 10 (and the server editions) and published a proof of concept (PoC) on GitHub. It concerns the Microsoft Data...
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Exchange 2019 released, but no Windows Server 2019 available to deploy
[German]At the moment everything is going wrong at Microsoft: They have just released Exchange 2019, but the platform (Windows Server 2019) on which this software could run has been withdrawn. Windows...
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Windows 10 V1803: Update KB4462933 (10/24/2018)
[German]Microsoft Microsoft has released on October 24, 2018 the cumulative update KB4462933 for Windows 10 Version 1803 to fix several bugs. Blog reader EP pointed this out to me the night in an...
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18267
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18267 in the Fast and Skip Ahead Ring. This is the 19H1 development branch, which will be released as a product in spring 2019. The...
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AMD ends 32 bit driver support
[German]A brief information for users of a 32-bit version of Windows with AMD hardware. Manufacturer AMD has just announced that support for 32-bit drivers for Windows is phasing out. I came across the...
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