Windows Update
Updates available for all currently supported versions of Windows. Updates for Flash and .Net available where applicable.
Windows 7
January 8, 2019—KB4480970 (Monthly Rollup)
January 8, 2019—KB4480960 (Security-only update)
Windows 8.1
January 8, 2019—KB4480963 (Monthly Rollup)
January 8, 2019—KB4480964 (Security-only update)
Windows 10
1809 – January 8, 2019—KB4480116 (OS Build 17763.253)
1803 – January 8, 2019—KB4480966 (OS Build 17134.523)
1709 – January 8, 2019—KB4480978 (OS Build 16299.904)
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Wise Disk Cleaner 10.1.5 Released
Download (I use portable) | Release Info
Stuff I bookmarked recently. Some off topic, some not:
Hey Apple, what happens on iPhones doesn’t stay there, and your ‘clever’ CES ad is promoting a dangerous illusion
That’s a cute ad you have in Las Vegas for the CES tech convention. “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone” is both a good dig at your rivals and a clever restating of Sin City’s popular catch phrase.
But it’s literally a lie. What happens on customers’ iPhones doesn’t stay on them — and you know it.
Preach
Survey: Americans Warming to Use of Facial Recognition Tech
I’m not sure I buy the results of the study. If it is even close to true then, well, SMH.
Came up in an email convo with a reader and friend:
SiriusXM stations I mostly listen to:
Hair Nation ’80s Hair Bands
Ozzy’s Boneyard Ozzy’s Classic Hard Rock
Classic Rewind ’70s/’80s Classic Rock
Doug says
January 8, 2019, 20:01(EDT) at 20:01The portable version of Wise Disk Cleaner that is currently available on their website is in Chinese. Not sure when this happened or if they will get it fixed.
Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says
January 8, 2019, 20:18(EDT) at 20:18LOL thats awesome!
Gilles says
January 8, 2019, 21:23(EDT) at 21:23I was able to set it to English by checking where the language settings are in the previous version then going to the same spot in the new one and choosing English.
Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) says
January 10, 2019, 07:28(EDT) at 07:28English here.
Ziggy says
January 10, 2019, 03:44(EDT) at 03:44Thanks for confirming that it was in Chinese. I thought that my migraine had intensified and that perhaps I was hallucinating! I feel much better now…
John says
January 20, 2019, 03:06(EDT) at 03:06I got SFC errors after installing
KB4080116edit: KB4480116 on 2 different machines using windows 10 Pro, anyone else having this issue?