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PowerToys 0.23.2 released
[German]Microsoft released version 0.23.2 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users on October 9, 2020. These tools are free and provide additional features for Windows 10, this time it is a stability update...
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Windows 10 gets hardware accelerated AV1 video support
[German]Microsoft has announced, that Windows 10 get support for hardware accelerated AVI video output from this autumn. The technology will soon be provided by hardware partners (via new GPUs). In the...
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Windows 10: Microsoft Office Hours (Oct. 15, 2020)
[German]Short note for users and administrators of Windows 10 systems. Microsoft is planning one of its ‘Microsoft Office Hours’ on October 15, 2020 for Windows 10, where Microsoft employees will be...
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Windows 10: Settings app crashes – a fix
[German]Some users of Windows 10 are faced with the problem that they cannot change any settings after installation. The cause is a crashing settings app. A blog reader pointed out a possible cause and...
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Windows 10 shows suddenly installed Office Apps like Excel
[German]Quite a crude story that a German blog reader pointed out to me. Windows 10 behavior as a malware? On his Windows 10, entries for Microsoft Office apps like Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word...
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Windows 10 Update KB4586238 for Insider
[German]Microsoft has released the cumulative update KB4586238 for Windows Insider in the Dev Channel on October 12. The update upgrades Windows 10 build 20231 to build 20231.1005. The announcement...
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Patchday: Windows 10 Updates (October 13, 2020)
[German]On October 13, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Patchday at Microsoft) several cumulative updates for the supported Windows 10 builds were released. Here are some details about the respective...
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PowerToys 0.24.0 (experimential) released
[German]Microsoft released an experimentialversion 0.24.0 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users on October 13, 2020. These tools are free and provide additional features for Windows 10, this time it is a...
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236 released
[German]Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236 for Windows Insider in the Developer Channel on October 14, 2020. The announcement was made in the Windows-Blog, where the list...
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HP Business Notebooks: Trouble with Sure Click/Bromium and Windows 10 October...
[German]Currently there seem to be problems with HP business notebooks running Windows 10 again. HP Sure Click is causing trouble with the October 2020 updates for Windows 10, here is a short summary...
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Windows 8.1/10 blocks wrong signed drivers
[German]I’ll pull it out separately, because the topic will still occupy us. With the October 2020 updates, Microsoft has introduced a change in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 as well as the server...
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236.1005 (KB4587587)
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20236.1005 for Windows Insider on the Developer Channel as of October 16, 2020. The whole thing comes as update KB4587587, as you can see in...
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HP Business Notebooks: Trouble with Sure Recover and Windows 10 2004
[German]Are HP business notebooks with Windows 10 2004 are having currently issues with HP Sure Recover? I have just come across a case in connection with an HP Elitebook and HP Sure Recover that...
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Microsoft closes vulnerability CVE-2020-17022 in HEVC codec library (10/15/2020)
[German]Microsoft has released a patch to close the RCE vulnerability CVE-2020-17022 in the Windows Codecs Library on October 15, 2020. Because there was some confusion (the vulnerability only affects...
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Windows 10 20H2: How it will be called?
[German]In a few days or weeks the autumn 2020 update of Windows 10 will be unleashed on people. The exciting question would be what the part should really be called then – because at Microsoft there...
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Windows 10: Setup for Feature Updates had a vulnerability (Oct. 13, 2020)
[German]There was an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability (CVE-2020-16908) in the Windows setup process, which Microsoft has addressed as of October 13, 2020. The vulnerability has been fixed by...
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Windows 10: Add account to mail app doesn’t work
[German]The mail and calendar app that’s shipped with Windows 10 tends to fail. In my case, I was facing the situation, that no more mail accounts can be added, removed or viewed. Here is some...
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Patch ‘Bad Neighbor’ TCP/IP vulnerability CVE-2020-16898 in Windows 10/Server
[English]Administrators and users should promptly install the security updates for Windows 10 and its server counterparts from October 13, 2020. Then the TCP/IP vulnerability CVE-2020-16898 (‘Bad...
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Windows 10 V2004: Issues with Update KB4579311
[German]What about the cumulative update KB4579311 for Windows 10 Version 2004? Do you see issues? There are some users reporting installation errors and other issues. Update KB4579311 for Windows 10...
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Bug or Feature: Why Microsoft Office forcibly installed PWAs in Windows 10
[German]A little rumor why Windows 10 users have been forced to install PWAs for Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word in Windows 10 and have them pinned to the Start menu, even if an Office was...
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