Download. Be sure to see Ed Bott’s – The unofficial guide to installing iTunes 10 without bloatware
iTunes 10.1.2 provides a number of important stability and performance improvements.
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New Acronis Coupons
15% off full versions of Acronis True Image Home 2011, and Disk Director 11. Good through April 18th, 2011.
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Time To Run Windows Update
Updates available for XP-7 and MS Office. There is also an optional update for Windows 7 that basically prepares your computer for SP1.
This update is necessary to successfully install and to remove any service packs to all versions of Windows 7 and on Windows Server 2008 R2.
FWIW, I have no clue when Windows 7 SP1 will come out. Last I heard was Q1 which means sometime before April.
Microsoft Security Essentials 2
This version of Microsoft Security Essentials includes the following new features and enhancements to better help protect your computer from threats:
-Windows Firewall integration. Security Essentials setup enables you to turn on or off Windows Firewall.
-Network Inspection System. This feature enhances real-time protection by inspecting network traffic to help proactively block exploitation of known network-based vulnerabilities.
-New and improved protection engine. The updated engine offers enhanced detection and cleanup capabilities with better performance.
iTunes 10.1.1
About iTunes 10.1.1
This release provides a number of important bug fixes, including:
* Addresses an issue where some music videos may not play on Macs equipped with NVIDIA GeForce 9400 or 9600 graphics.
* Resolves an issue where iTunes may unexpectedly quit when deleting a playlist that has the iTunes Sidebar showing.
* Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit when connecting an iPod to a Mac equipped with a PowerPC processor.
* Addresses an issue where some music videos may not sync to an iPod, iPhone, or iPad.About iTunes 10.1.1 for Windows (64 bit)
This release provides a number of important bug fixes, including:
* Addresses an issue where iTunes may unexpectedly quit when resizing the iTunes window.
* Resolves an issue where iTunes may unexpectedly quit when deleting a playlist that has the iTunes Sidebar showing.
* Addresses an issue where some music videos may not sync to an iPod, iPhone, or iPad.
Time To Run Windows Update
Updates, and updates, and more updates available for XP, 2K3, Vista, 2K8, Seven, Office, etc.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2010
3DMark Contest Winners
The contest winners for the 3DMark 11 Advanced Edition keys were contacted and the prizes were claimed.
Congrats to Darek and Tony!
FWIW – My favorite PC game of all time is Redneck Rampage 🙂 I just had a ton of fun playing it.
New Windows 0-day vulnerability emerges, bypasses UAC
Story found via Neowin, via Winrumors, original at Prevx. It being the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the states I assume most of the MS staff here is off and the only official statement I can find from Microsoft at the moment is from a German Microsoft TechNet blog post. Microsoft is investigating new vulnerability in Windows Kernel (translated).
Being a privilege escalation exploit, it bypasses by design even the protection given by the User Account Control and Limited User Account technology implemented in Windows Vista and Windows 7. All Windows XP/Vista/7 both 32 and 64 bit are vulnerable to this attack.
Time To Run Windows Update
I don’t see anything critical since the last round of updates but there are “important” updates available. What you get depends on what OS you are running.
Time To Run Windows Update
There are compatibility updates for Windows 2K3, 2K8, and Seven.
(As of this writing Windows 7 SP1 RC is listed in Microsoft downloads but resolves to a dead link. Should be out later?) *edit – It is now out. See post above.