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Windows 11 available on October 5
“Today, we are thrilled to announce Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will start to become available for purchase.”

Just FYI, end of life for Windows 10 is currently Oct 14, 2025.

Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 471.96 WHQL
“support for 6 new G-SYNC Compatible displays…Updated scaling resolution in NVIDIA Image Sharpening”
Download | Release Notes

HWiNFO 7.10
A few fixes and improvments, supporrt for new hardware.
Download (I use portable) | Release Info

Google Chrome 93
“The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 93 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux…Chrome 93.0.4577.63 contains a number of fixes and improvements…This update includes 27 security fixes.”
Download | Release Info
Starting from Chrome 93, websites can verify phone numbers from desktop Chrome.

Stuff I bookmarked recently. Some off topic, some not:
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CPU-Z 1.97
Support for new hardware.
Download Zip File (portable) | Home Page

Notepad++ 8.1.4
10 fixes.
Download & Info

iVerge – Several Best Buy stores will have Nvidia RTX 30-series GPUs available tomorrow
“Nvidia’s RTX 30-series graphics cards are next to impossible to find in stock, but Best Buy is offering PC gamers an opportunity to buy one on Thursday, August 26th. Select store locations will have stock, and if you find your local store on this page by using the drop-down options, it’ll be among the locations getting some GPUs for Thursday’s restock.
You can’t just show up at any time of the day and pick one up. In order to be eligible to buy one, you’ll need to arrive at your store before 7:30AM local time and queue up. That’s the time when Best Buy employees will give one ticket to each person in line until there are no more tickets. If you get a ticket, Best Buy says it guarantees that you can purchase one graphics card, so be early to ensure you get a ticket and that you can get the GPU you want. If you miss out this time, Best Buy seems to do these restock events every month or so.”
I popped over to the Best Buy site prices range from $400 all the way to $2,400.

Firefox 91.0.2
Two fixes.
Download | Release Notes

Audacity 3.0.4
Two fixes.
Download | Release Notes

Charlie Watts, the Rolling Stones’ Drummer and Inimitable Backbone, Dead at 80
His light touch, singular rhythmic sense, and impeccable feel, as heard on canonical rock songs such as “Paint It, Black,” “Gimme Shelter,” and “Brown Sugar,” made him both the engine that powered the Stones’ music and one of the most famous and respected drummers of all time.
As Keith Richards said in 1979: “Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones. If Charlie wasn’t doing what he’s doing on drums, that wouldn’t be true at all. You’d find out that Charlie Watts is the Stones.”
5 isolated drum tracks to prove that The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was a genius
Hard to argue with this list.
I’ve owned a copy of Hot Rocks 1964–1971 in some form or another since I was in my early teens and it remains one of my favs.
List of all their singles on the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_discography#Singles

Intel Network Adapter Driver for Windows 10
v26.4, Download & Info

EMDB 4.10
Free movie collection database software.
Download | What’s New

Stuff I bookmarked recently. Some off topic, some not:
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Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 92.0.4515.159 for Windows, Mac and Linux…This update includes 9 security fixes.”
Download | Release Info | Android Too

Firefox 91.0.1
Bugfixes, stability fixes, and a security fix.
Download | Release Notes

HandBrake 1.4.1
“This is a small patch release which fixes a number of common issues with the 1.4 release.”
Download | Release Info

Windows 10 Wi-Fi Drivers for Intel Wireless Adapters
v22.70.0, Download
Intel Killer Performance Suite
v3.0.1606, Download

Hilarious
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dBpoweramp Music Converter 17.4
Fixes, updates, improvements.
Download | Release Notes

Intel Wireless Bluetooth for Windows 10
v22.70.2, 64-bit only
Download & Info

Intel PROSet/Wireless Software and Drivers for IT Admins
v22.70.0. Support for Windows 11.
Download & Info

Left town for a few days to visit the in-laws.
No longer on Windows 11 Beta, I just couldn’t take it anymore.

Win10 Updated
Patches covering 40 some CVEs,
August 10, 2021—KB5005033 (OS Builds 19041.1165, 19042.1165, and 19043.1165)

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.7.1 OPTIONAL Drivers
1 fix, support for RX 6600 XT
Download | Release Notes

Intel Graphics Windows DCH Drivers
Driver Version: 30.0.100.9805. Half dozen fixes, Support for Naraka: Bladepoint
Download & Info

Firefox 91
A few security and privacy related improvements, “now supports logging into Microsoft, work, and school accounts using Windows single sign-on”
Download | Release Notes

Notepad++ 8.1.2
10 bug-fixes and improvements.
Download & Info

Google Chrome Updated
“The Stable channel has been updated to 92.0.4515.131 for Windows, Mac and Linux…This update includes 10 security fixes.”
Download | Release Info | Android Too

MediaMonkey 5.0.1.2431
“over 200 fixes and improvements.”
200??? That tells me version 5 wasn’t ready for prime time. I’m still using version 4.
Download & Info

Registry Explorer
“Replacement for the Windows built-in Regedit.exe tool”
Thanks to Mick for suggesting this new Cool Tool.
Home | Download

Here’s how police can get your data — even if you aren’t suspected of a crime
“The police are increasingly using tactics like reverse search warrants to grab the data of many people in the hope of finding their suspect among them. You might get swept up in one just because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time or looked up the wrong search term. And you might never know that you got caught in the dragnet.“

Win10 Preview Update
There a ton of fixes and improvements in this. Might wanna give it a look.
July 29, 2021—KB5004296 (OS Builds 19041.1151, 19042.1151, and 19043.1151) Preview

Wise Disk Cleaner 10.6.1
1. Optimized the cleaning rules of Common Cleaner.
2. Added new actions in Disk Defrag, support Shutdown, Sleep, Hibernation, and Logout.
3. Newly clean up the cache files of iQIYI UWP edition.
4. Added support for cleaning up Thunder’s automatic update files.
5. Fix some known errors.
6. Optimize the operation interface.
Download (I use portable) | Release Info
They also have a new program to check if your rig can do Win11: Checkit

Winaero Tweaker 1.3
A few more Win11 tweaks.
Download & Info
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Audacity 3.0.3
Windows version is now 64-bit, Multiple bugs fixed, and other fixes and improvements.
Download | Release Notes

PerfView 2.0.71
“PerfView is a free performance-analysis tool that helps isolate CPU and memory-related performance issues.”
Download & Info
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