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Microsoft will fix currently exploited vulnerability affecting IE9,10 and 11 At 7.44% Internet Explorer still has more market share than Edge and only slightly less than Firefox. It is therefore good news that Microsoft is set to fix a flaw in the browser which could result in Remote Code Execution...

Goodbye Microsoft Edge, welcome Microsoft (Chromium) Edge As of Wednesday, January 15 , Microsoft will begin pushing its new, Chromium-based version of the Edge browser to Windows 10 Home and Pro users. We covered the beta version of Chromium-based Edge in November. The beta was still pretty raw th...

Quickly Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10 for Free With This PowerShell Script If you, or someone you know, has been clinging to Windows 7 until the bitter end , you should know that your operating system won’t receive any more security updates past January 15. Now is as good a time as any to finally...

Microsoft Patch Alert: December patches hang Win7 Pro endpoints and force Server 2012 reboots “In our investigation we confirmed the problem having to do with KB4530734 (December Monthly Rollup for Windows 7 Service Pack 1). More specifically, we believe it had something to do with KB4531786 (Servi...

You Can Still Upgrade to Windows 10 For Free, Here's How Microsoft doesn’t talk about that Windows 10 free upgrade offer anymore, but devices with legitimate Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 licenses could be upgraded to Windows 10 for free using the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. To get Windows 10, you’l...

This free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works. Here's why -- and how to get it In January 2017, I wrote a post titled " Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade. " It has become the single most popular post I've ever published at ZDNet, and it still gets hundreds of thousan...

Received error that Photo app did not open in the "required amount of time" soooo...
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Chrome browser may not be able to find tabbed web pages, may need reboot

Edge browser fails to open twice from taskbar...slower than Chrome... Microsoft gets ready to roll out the new Edge to Windows 10 via Windows Update Beginning January 15, 2020, Microsoft will be delivering its new Chromium-based Edge browser automatically to Windows 10 users via Windows Update , un...

Updated after a wake up reboot was needed to do anything...

Chrome browser seems slower also...

Here's what will happen to your Windows 7 PC on January 15, 2020

Microsoft is ready to push a full-screen warning to Windows 7 users who are still running the OS after January 14. The nag-screen payload is part of the December 10 Patch Tuesday monthly rollup.

Microsoft to end updates to Windows 7's free AV software, Security Essentials "No, your Windows 7 computer is not protected by MSE ( (Microsoft Security Essentials)) after January 14, 2020 ," the company said in a support document mainly concerned about the Extended Security Updates (ESU)...

Windows 10 Mobile reaches its end of life on Tuesday Still, Microsoft had a responsibility to support the devices it did sell to customers, especially enterprise customers. That responsibility finally ends on December 10 and those devices will no longer receive even security updates. The phones wil...

Microsoft Starts Forced Feature Updates on Windows 10 1809 Microsoft says that Windows 10 1909 feature updates will start automatically installing on Windows 10 1809 devices beginning today to smooth out the update process to a more recent Windows 10 version. "Beginning today, we will slowly s...

Upgraded 32 bit laptop to 1909 and now taskbar stays out all the time, still slow... https://i.postimg.cc/5yyyYPRM/screenshot-168.png Taskbar apps do not respond when clicked on forever! Chrome wake ups often result in having to restart browser...50/50 on restore OS reminds me of XP at its worst......

HPE tells users to patch SSDs to prevent failure after 32,768 hours of operation Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) warned customers last week to install a critical firmware patch to prevent SAS SSDs (Serial-Attached SCSI solid-state drives) from permanently failing after 32,768 hours of operation --...

Microsoft has turned Outlook into a Progressive Web App If you’re using a Chromium browser like Chrome or Brave , then the Outlook.com support is live right now. You can simply “install” Outlook.com from the address bar, and it will be treated as if it’s a native app in Windows or macOS. Microsoft ...

Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft's Tracking Prevention hits Google the hardest The new Edge browser, built on the same open source code as Google Chrome , contains a new Tracking Prevention feature that blocks third-party trackers and, at the Strict setting, many ads. Tests show that one in four items bl...

Fake Windows update email installs ransomware on PCs Researchers from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs discovered the spam emails, which come with an 'Install Latest Microsoft Windows Update now!' or 'Critical Microsoft Windows Update!’ subject line. Microsoft, of course, doesn’t send out Windows updates thr...

For the first time in many months my laptop woke up quickly today and the Chrome browser responded well without having to restart it! Taskbar is not hiding at the moment however... Try Windows key and then left click mouse away from taskbar and start menu tiles. I have delayed the 1909 upgrade and ...

How to get the Windows 10 November 2019 Update Beginning today, November 12, the November Update is available for customers seeking to install the latest release. If you are ready to install the update, open your Windows Update settings (Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update) and select...