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Private WinTen, a new Windows 10 privacy tool
[German]A short note for those who like to experiment with Windows 10 privacy: There is a tool , named Private WinTen (Private Win10) with which you can control the privacy and firewall settings of...
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Windows 10: Activated tasks are not executed
[German]On Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, tasks may stop running after the September updates are installed. Here is some information about this issue. Microsoft’s Japan Ask Core team has been...
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FYI: End of Support for Windows 7, SQL-Server 2008 and more
At the end of the year, a brief outlook on various Microsoft products that will be dropped from support in 2019 or January 2020. This leaves a few months to plan the migration to successor products....
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Windows 10 V1809: Upgrade deactivates Build-In Administrator
[German]A brief note for Windows 10 users working with the Build-In Account Administrator. When you upgrade to the October 2018 update (Windows 10 v1809), this account is disabled in some cases....
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Windows 10: Update KB4483214 breaks Sandbox mode
[German]Windows 10 insiders testing the 19H1 should not install the KB4483214 update. This does raise the build to 18305.1003. But afterwards the sandbox cannot be used anymore. Shortly before...
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Windows 10: 0-day bug enabled file overwrite
[German]At the end of the year 2018 a new 0-day bug in Windows became known, which allows attackers to overwrite files. Here is some information about this new bug. The 0-day bug in Windows was...
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Windows 10: Insider Preview Build 18309 released
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18309 in the Fast Ring at the beginning of the year. This is the 19H1 development branch, which will be released in spring 2019. The...
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Windows 10 V1809: Continous Warnings (Event ID 1534)
[German]Another issue with Windows 10 version 1809, which I would like to discuss here. The User Profile Service populated the event log with warnings (Event ID 1534). The error description Blog reader...
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Microsoft Edge: PoC for Remote Execution Vulnerability
[German]A security researcher has published an exploit code as a Proof of Concept (PoC) that exploits a remote execution vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Microsoft Edge. The proof-of-concept...
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Finnish Consumer Disputes Board: Microsoft has to compensate for “Forced...
[German]The Finnish Consumer Disputes Board decided, that Microsoft had no contractual right to install a new operating system without asking for permission. Microsoft has to compensate Windows 10...
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Windows 7: Malwarebytes is causing sporadic freezes
[German]Another short information for Windows users who use Malwarebytes security software. It seems that this software is the cause of sporadic freezes in Windows 7 (and possible in other Windows...
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Microsoft Security Update Summary (January 8, 2019)
[German]As of January 8, 2019, Microsoft released several security updates for Windows clients and servers, Office, etc. Below is a compact overview of these updates and some notes. A list of the...
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Patchday: Updates for Windows 7/8.1/Server Jan. 8, 2019
[German]On January 8, 2019, Microsoft released various (security) updates for Windows 7 SP1 and other updates for Windows 8.1 as well as the corresponding server versions. Here is an overview of these...
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Patchday Windows 10-Updates (January 8, 2019)
[German]On January 8, 2019 (the second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft), several cumulative updates were released for the supported Windows 10 builds. Here are some details about each...
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Network issues with updates KB4480970 and KB4480960
[German]The KB4480970 (Monthly Rollup) and KB4480960 (Security only) updates were released by Microsoft on January 8, 2018 for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The updates seem to cause...
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Windows 10 V1809: Update KB4476976 in Release Preview Ring
Microsoft has released the cumulative update KB4476976 for Windows 10 V1809 in the release preview ring for insiders. This means that end users are not yet offered this update, which raises the build...
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Microsoft explains the Windows 7 KMS activation issue
[German]On January 8, 2019, some administrators in enterprise environments observed KMS activation errors on Windows 7 clients. Windows 7 was reported as ‘not genuine’ (error code 0xC004F200). Now...
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Windows January 2019 Updates breaks access to Access DBs
[German]A brief warning for users are using Windows application accessing MS Access 97 databases. Windows security updates from January 8, 2019, breaks access to MS Access 97 databases (affects all...
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Microsoft Patchday: Other Updates January 8, 2019
[German]As of January 8, 2019 (Patchday), Microsoft has released additional updates for Internet Explorer, Windows Server, etc.. In this blog post the respective patches are added, which are not...
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Microsoft confirms Access 97 MDB bug in Jet Database Engine caused by Windows...
[German]Microsoft has confirmed the database error when accessing Access 97 .mdb databases via the Jet Database Engine. The problem is caused by the January 8, 2019 security updates in all supported...
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