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Tweaking Windows 8.1 has been updated for Update 1.
Get it while it’s hot!
PLEASE help spread the word!
If you ordered the printable PDF in the past you’re due a free update! Contact me:
– Either reply to the original email, or
– Email me and provide the email address you ordered with or forward your receipt.
Haven’t ordered the printable PDF yet? Grab it here.
April 8th’s Patch Tuesday marks:
The end of official Windows XP support.
See eXPired – The Last Windows XP Guide You’ll Ever Need and other XP articles.
Official support ends for Office 2003 too.
Be sure to update them TOMORROW.
Windows 8.1 Update 1 will also be released.
In some of the Geekier forums some folks have reported issues with this update. I don’t know if it’s the update itself, a bad download, or failure to follow the install order (RTM and MDSN had manual downloads).
I would advise folks to either:
1 – Backup their computer before taking this update.
or
2 – Wait a few days to see what is being said around the web about this update.
All other currently supported Windows will have a few critical updates:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for April 2014
FYI, Patch Tuesday updates are released around 1300 hrs EST (1000 hrs PST, 1700 hrs UTC).
In addition, Adobe usually release their security updates on Patch Tuesday.
Tomorrow have a look at: http://helpx.adobe.com/security.html
Microsoft has a few downloads I thought you all might find interesting:
[Read more…] about Windows 8.1 Update 1 Stuff From Microsoft
As many of you know Windows 8.1 Update 1 was released to MSDN. Regular users will get it via Windows Update starting April 8th.
Hopefully some time after that ISO’s for regular users will become available, um, “officially”.
I decided to do a clean install via the x64 ISO using the following steps. [Read more…] about Installed – Windows 8.1 Update 1
Start8 1.40 With Windows 8.1 Update 1 Support Now Available
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Changelog
Start8 1.40 includes:
Supports Windows 8.1 Update
Fix to allow clicking on section titles in search
Fix for issue with documents showing in most recent apps list
Fix to exclude desktop items from recent apps list
Fixed issue with touch to close on touch-enabled machines re-opening the menu
According to the bloggers at BUILD, a Metro-ized Start Menu will be arriving via some future update (not the April 8th one).
No date or further details. Hit up Ars Technica or Neowin for pics.
Thank you Mr. Nadella!
Classic Shell 4.0.5 has been released.
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Classic Shell has been around for 4 years.
It has recently attracted attention from a wider audience because of its Start Menu add on/replacement called Classic Start Menu.
IMHO it is the best freeware Windows 8 start menu program.
Version 4.0.5 general release (Mar, 2014):
Improved support for high resolution displays
Improved support for touch displays
New button for the Explorer toolbar to toggle the navigation pane
Added support for animated start buttons
Multiple minor improvements and bugfixes
For those that like the latest KDE releases, openSUSE has just made that easier. They’ve added a “rolling release” repo.
See: Raymond Wooninck – Moving to a rolling KDE release repository
The new repos are:
KDE – http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Current/openSUSE_13.1/
KDE Extra – http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Current_openSUSE_13.1/
To switch to the repos use the “switch system packages” option in YaST.
See: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_change_update#Full_repository_Vendor_change
(if you use Packman be sure to use this method on the Packman repo after your initial update)
You can follow all the latest KDE release news here.
CCleaner v4.12 is out.
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Version History
***Pay attention during install. May attempt to install unwanted programs.
VirtualBox 4.3.10 is out.
“This is a maintenance release.”
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