O&O ShutUp10 1.9.1437 released.
“Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11”
7 new options and some fixes.
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Featured in Tweaking Windows 10.
Tuesday News
AMD Software Adrenalin 24.5.1 WHQL Drivers
Game related fixes and improvements.
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Intel Arc & Iris Xe Drivers 31.0.101.5522 WHQL
Game related fixes and improvements
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7-Zip 24.05
Freeware feature packed file archiver.
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HandBrake 1.8.0
Free, open-source video converter.
“This release continues a focus on the HandBrake core engine, improvements in feature parity between the Mac, Windows and Linux User Interfaces and many other fixes and improvements. Many 3rd party libraries have also been updated, including the latest SVT-AV1 2.1.0 encoder.”
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Patch Tuesday
Windows Updates
Updates addresses 40-42 vulnerabilities.
Win10 – May 14, 2024—KB5037768 (OS Builds 19044.4412 and 19045.4412)
Win11 – May 14, 2024—KB5037770 (OS Build 22000.2960)
VMware Player 17.5.2
A few fixes.
see also: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use
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Their server seems to be having issues. I’ve uploaded the file (windows) HERE until the issue is resolved.
ExpressVPN has been updated across all platforms. Update from within the program or your app store.
Monday News
Patch Tuesday is tomorrow.
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 552.44 WHQL
Game related support and fixes.
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WACUP Full Preview Build 1.99.13.19100 (x86)
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Notepad++ 8.6.7
Freeware feature packed notepad replacement. This is the second update within a week.
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Wednesday News
Intel Network Drivers
Intel Killer Performance Suite 35.24.4275 (Wi-Fi, Ethernet drivers and Killer Software for the Intel Killer products)
Intel Ethernet Adapter Complete Driver Pack 29.1
HWiNFO 8.02
“Comprehensive Hardware Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting for Windows and DOS.”
Fixes, enhancements, new hardware support.
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EMDB 5.29
Freeware movie collection database software. 2 new features and a few fixes.
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My Movie Database
Fixing Microsoft’s KB5034441 Charlie Foxtrot
Back in January I mentioned that there was an issue installing the Windows 10 KB5034441 update. This update provides an update to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). The update fails for most people with error 0x80070643. The excuse given was, “update requires 250 MB of free space in the recovery partition to install successfully”. It failed on the 6 computers I have running Win10.
At the time I said about this, “here is a “fix”, I tried it and it works. HOWEVER, I DO NOT recommend it at this time. Give Microsoft time to see if they can fix this.”
Welp, according to Neowin, “Microsoft has acknowledged that an automatic resolution for this issue will not be released and as such, the only way to fix this is manually.”
That’s just friggin’ great. A perfect example of the downfall of Microsoft. Create a problem due to poor quality control and then refuse to fix it. This has left the non-Geek out there to try and do a geeky exercise that could render their computer unbootable. Thanks Microsoft!
Here’s how to fix it…
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New Graphics Drivers
WACUP Full Preview Build 1.99.12.18980
WACUP = WinAmp Community Update Project
This is basically a modern version of the old Winamp. See my article: WACUP, Winamp Lives On
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Wednesday News
Wise Disk Cleaner 11.1.1
“Clean useless and outdated junk files, browser traces, cookies, and history.”
1. Improved the rule for cleaning Microsoft Office, supports cleaning Office 2021, Office 2024, and Microsoft 365.
2. Added rules for cleaning Trillian, Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, TotalRecovery Pro, Ableton Live, ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2024, Any.do, Cloud System Booster, and XWidget.
3. Fixed minor bugs in previous version.
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Audacity 3.5.0
“the world’s most popular audio editing and recording app”
Many changes and bugfixes, See changelog.
Edit 1425hrs: v3.5.1 released that addresses a few issues with v3.5.0.
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Tails 6.2
“is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.”
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Wednesday News
FileZilla 3.67.0
Free FTP client.
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VirtualBox 7.0.16
Freeware, open source virtualization software. Several fixes and improvements.
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Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 552.22 WHQL
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It’s Time to Switch to a Privacy Browser
“Google’s admission that, yes, it does track you while you’re in Chrome’s Incognito mode, is just the latest in a long line of unsettling revelations about just how keenly Big Tech keeps an eye on our movements every time we connect to the internet…there are alternatives: Below we recommend several browsers built with user privacy and security as a priority. Even better, in many cases they can import data such as bookmarks and passwords from your current browser—Google Chrome, for example.“