A lot has been made of Win10’s supposed privacy issues. On one extreme you’ve got folks claiming Microsoft is outright spying on you and even making claims it is a government spy tool. On the other extreme you have the Microsoft fanbois claiming everything is above-board, harmless, and for your own good. Me. I’m somewhere in between.
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Friday Morning News
CCleaner 5.10
“Improved”, “Added”, “Optimized”…
Download
Version History
***Pay attention during install. May attempt to install unwanted programs.
Google Chrome Updated, Again
For the second time this week Chrome has been updated. Security fixes.
“The stable channel has been updated to 45.0.2454.101 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.”
Download or update from within the program.
Adobe Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 14
Adobe has updated the consumer version of Photoshop. While it is the best photo editing software I’m not sure it is worth the $150 asking price.
Freeware alternatives:
Paint.net
GIMP
Samsung Says Not To Use Rapid Mode In Windows 10
Reader Kelly asked Samsung why Rapid mode wasn’t working in Windows 10: [Read more…] about Samsung Says Not To Use Rapid Mode In Windows 10
Stop Dual-Booting
I get a few emails a month about dual / multi-booting, hosed bootloaders, “my X hardware doesn’t work with Z operating system”, “my X program doesn’t work with Z operating system”, etc. While I certainly understand there are folks who want direct OS/hardware interaction I believe far too many people choose to dual-boot when they don’t have to. [Read more…] about Stop Dual-Booting
Random Tuesday Stuff…
One Bad Mama Jama Of An SSD
ARS Technica – Samsung’s 950 Pro M.2 SSD pairs NVMe with V-NAND for eye-popping performance
“sequential reads of 2500MB/s and writes of 1500MB/s”
😯
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Adobe Flash and Google Chrome Updated
APSB15-23 Security updates available for Adobe Flash Player
Download:
Flash for IE
Flash for other browsers
Main download page
Windows 8/8.1/10 users check Windows Update. Microsoft will get around to updating it…eventually.
Google Chrome users, Flash was updated today with Chrome 45.0.2454.99.
Google Chrome Updated
“The stable channel has been updated to 45.0.2454.99 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release contains a critical update to Adobe Flash Player (19.0.0.185).”
Download or update from within the program.
Windows 10 Advanced Disk Cleanup
This cleanup method will create a cleanup task that you can run whenever you like. It differs from the disk cleanup utility found in your menu or search (cleanmgr) in that it has far more options.
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Google Chrome Updated
“The stable channel has been updated to 45.0.2454.93 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.”
Download or update from within the program.
Random Weekend Stuff…
Are You Ready For Some Football?
First Sunday for pro football!
#HTTR
About The GWX Auto Downloads
I’m not sure why all the fuss this week. We Geeks have warned you about this from the inception. Forum members at places like MDL have been shouting about this daily for many months. I first warned about GWX in April. I have a post on blocking this 3 weeks ago. Yes, this is a massively shitty thing for Microsoft to do, yes I think someone should be fired over this, yes I think it calls for lawsuites, but like I said, we Geeks warned you. This isn’t new news and you should be careful about trusting sites/people that act like it is.
Site Polls
The results of the “What Windows OS is your main OS?” poll kinda shocked me. I didn’t think so many of you would jump to Win10 so fast. I’m also a bit disheartened that so many people are still using XP.
I put a new poll up. Let me know what you think of Win10 —>>>
New / Revised Microsoft Win10 Docs
Exploring Windows 10 v2.0
Microsoft Edge v2.0
Cortana v2.0
Your next PC will look like Microsoft Surface – Wanna bet a years wages on that?
Remove And Block GWX In Windows 7 v2.0
Article moved here: https://www.tweakhound.com/2015/11/01/remove-and-block-gwx-in-windows-7-2/