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Tweaking Windows 10 has been updated for AnniUpdate.
If you’ve purchased the guide previously and want a free update the contact me by forwarding your email from me or PayPal back to me.
I would greatly appreciate it if you would spread the word via email, social media, forum posts, news to other websites, etc.
Legendary Windows author Woody Leonhard gave this site a shout out in his article Woody’s Win10Tip: Block forced Windows updates.
Thanks for mentioning TweakHound.com! It is rare that this site gets any credit and a honor to be mentioned in one of your articles.
WOT Spyware
A German news organization discovered that the popular Web Of Trust (WOT) browser extension was spying on users and selling their data.
Both Google and Firefox have delisted WOT.
Info is a little hard to come by as no one properly sources their news anymore. There is a Github page that contains some info.
Windows 7 gained more new users than Windows 10 in the last 2 months
United Kingdom Readers
This is the first I have heard of this. Can some please explain Investigatory Powers Bill without getting too political?
Downloads
AMD Crimson Edition 16.11.2 Hotfix Drivers
Intel SSD Toolbox 3.4.0 – adds support for new Intel drives.
Off Topic
Geek + Redneck Toy Equals…
Billy Bass giving weather forecasts!
Still working on the Win10 tweak guide.
The section Windows 10 Privacy Settings has been updated:
– Wi-Fi sense section removed as this moronic feature was removed in AnniUpdate.
– Revised O&O Shup10 recommendations.
Google Chrome Updated
“The stable channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.87 for Windows, Mac, and 54.0.2840.90 for Linux.”
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Thanks Johan!
Free Password Manager For All Your Devices
Get LastPass Everywhere: Multi-Device Access Is Now Free!
I use it.
More Software Updates
EMDB 2.58 – Free movie collection software.
O&O ShutUp10 1.4.1384 – The Win10 privacy tamer I use.
Well Crap…
I’m looking at Linux as my main OS, specifically openSUSE. Most distros are running Linux 4.4 LTS kernel. There are so many improvements since then that I would love to run newer kernel. I tried the openSUSE rolling release called openSUSE Tumbleweed. It was running 4.8.6 I believe. I ran into a showstopper bug that involved my AMD Radeon RX 480 that is present in kernels beyond 4.4. Kinda sucks but openSUSE Leap 42.2 will be released on November 16. It is using the LTS 4.4 kernel so I will give that a shot. Or, I may try this if I have time.
Woohoo! It’s Friday!
Win10 Updated
Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607: October 27, 2016
Win10 Update History
Latest Graphics Drivers (Windows)
AMD Crimson Edition 16.10.3 Hotfix (10/27/2016)
Nvidia GeForce Game Ready Driver 375.70 WHQL (10/28/2016)
MBRFilter
“a driver that allows the MBR to be placed into a read-only mode, preventing malicious software from writing to or modifying the contents of this section of the storage device.”
Hmmm… Anyone tried this?
Lenovo Computers
Military Warns Chinese Computer Gear Poses Cyber Spy Threat
Off Topic
Video – Gym Wildlife (NSFW)
See ya next week!
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I, just, can’t, believe it. I agree with Tim Cook on something.
In terms of the balance of privacy and AI, this is a long conversation, but at a high level, this is a false tradeoff. People would like you to believe you have to give up privacy to have AI do something for you, but we don’t buy that. It might take more work, it might take more thinking, but I don’t think we should throw our privacy away. It’s sort of like the age old argument between privacy and security. You should have both. You shouldn’t have to make a choice.
Well said sir. Well said.
The Windows 7 Diagnostics Tracking Service is back and uninstallable if you want to keep your system patched.
I’ve updated my post on this: Windows 7 Diagnostics Tracking Service
Some version of this will be part of the upcoming new version of the Win10 Tweak Guide. This article is as much to keep my thoughts straight as it is for your info.
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