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* FIRST NEW WINDOWS 11 FUNCTIONALITY RELEASED IN A CUMULATIVE UDPATE
Posted on February 15, 2022 at 16:58 CST by joep517 • Comment in the Forums
Microsoft has released February 15, 2022—KB5010414 (OS Build 22000.527)
Preview (microsoft.com). Even though the title has “Preview” in it, this
update is being released to everyone today. In addition to a long list of
fixes, there is a new media player and notepad. Taskbar changes include
adding the clock and date to multiple monitors. When the taskbar is center
aligned the weather now appears on the taskbar at the left. An Amazon app
store preview app is available in the Microsoft Store. See the above release
notes for more details.
Here is the blog post that Panos Panay published about this release –
Bringing you closer to what you love with new experiences in Windows 11 |
Windows Experience Blog.
Microsoft News, Updates, Windows 11, Windows News
* A SWEETHEART OF A PATCHING MONTH
Posted on February 14, 2022 at 02:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the
Forums
ISSUE 19.07 • 2022-02-14
PATCH WATCH
By Susan Bradley
Is Microsoft trying to win back our love?
Microsoft may be giving us a Valentine’s Day patching reprieve: this month,
we have no critical bugs being patched. Everyone, from home users to
small-business users to large enterprises, can take a bit of a breather.
The Windows Update releases this month include 70 vulnerabilities, none of
which has any known exploits. For businesses, there are no Exchange patches
to worry about. I therefore consider this a bit of a “cleanup” month,
especially for anyone who skipped the January updates that caused so many
side effects and concerns.
Updates to .NET include security updates for 5.0.211, 5.0.405, and 6.0.102 —
but not for older releases such as 4.8 and other earlier versions. However,
you may still see these versions offered to your systems.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.07.0 (2022-02-14).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Newsletter 19.07.F (2022-02-14).
AskWoody FREE Newsletter, AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Patch Watch AskWoody Plus
Newsletter, Patch Lady Posts, Patch Watch
* NEW TO “REMOTE DESKTOPS?” START HERE!
Posted on February 14, 2022 at 02:44 CST by Fred Langa • Comment in the
Forums
LANGALIST
By Fred Langa
Previous columns discussed several remote desktops — software that lets you
access and use a distant PC just as if you were sitting at its keyboard.
Google’s Chrome Remote Desktop was the main focus because it’s much easier to
configure and use than Windows’ built-in Remote Desktop Connection.
However, if you’ve never used any remote-access tool before, some of the
concepts and set-up steps may seem confusing at first.
So, here’s additional information and a step-by-step guide to get you up and
running with Chrome Remote Desktop!
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.07.0 (2022-02-14).
AskWoody Plus Newsletter, LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Chrome Remote
Desktop, LangaList, Remote Desktop Connection
* SAVING MONEY ON YOUR MICROSOFT 365 SUBSCRIPTION
Posted on February 14, 2022 at 02:43 CST by Peter Deegan • Comment in the
Forums
MICROSOFT 365
By Peter Deegan
Using the tips in this article, you can pay less for new subscriptions and
renewals.
Let’s start with Microsoft’s official, full prices for the two main consumer
plans for Microsoft 365. Both have the same features for a different number
of separate users.
In the United States, the Microsoft 365 Personal plan, for one person, has a
list price of US$69.99 per year. The Microsoft 365 Family plan, for up to six
people, lists for $99.99; each person in the plan gets individual access to
all the apps, including 1TB of OneDrive storage. It doesn’t take higher math
to see that the Family plan is the best value for more than one person and a
great price for a family of four.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.07.0 (2022-02-14).
AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Microsoft 365 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Microsoft
365, Microsoft licensing
* TRAFFICMONITOR — BREAKING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER
Posted on February 14, 2022 at 02:42 CST by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the
Forums
FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT
By Deanna McElveen
Sipping coffee and browsing the latest GitHub projects with Google Translate.
That’s my idea of fun on any given morning or evening. If I did my searching
with my American blinders on, I would miss 80% of the great, open-source
software the world’s developers have to offer.
I happened to stumble across a talented Chinese developer, who goes by the
GitHub handle of “zhongyang219,” and the open source project TrafficMonitor.
It’s a small applet that runs in the System Tray and displays your current
network transfer speed plus CPU and memory usage.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.07.0 (2022-02-14).
AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Freeware Spotlight AskWoody Plus Newsletter,
Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, Networking
* TIPS FOR THE WEEKEND – FEBRUARY 12, 2022 – DO YOU NEED A SECOND MONITOR?
Posted on February 12, 2022 at 23:52 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the
Forums
Watch my video here demonstrating my USB monitor
Do you need a second monitor – but not one that takes up a lot of room?
At home I have a large main monitor and then I purchased a usb connected
small flat screen to work as my second monitor. It’s a smaller sized monitor
but it allows me to pull a spreadsheet or a web site over to a second
monitor. It’s a 15.6 inch Acer that plugs into any USB slot on the computer.
The other day I was watching “The business of Tech” podcast by Dave Sobel and
he talked about how he worked remotely for a week. He showcased that he used
a device to make his iPad a secondary monitor. Called Astropad, it allows you
to use your Ipad as a secondary monitor. It works on both Windows and Mac
platforms.
I had never seen it before. So do you use multiple monitors? I HIGHLY
recommend having two displays (or more). At the office everyone has two,
several people have three and one person has four.
Tech Help Patch Lady Posts
* BEWARE OF FIRMWARE UPDATES ON SURFACE BOOK 3
Posted on February 12, 2022 at 20:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the
Forums
Barb Bowman passed this along and I’m seeing other posts on the subject.
The recent firmware update to Surface Book 3’s are bricking some of the
devices. it appears
Arnaud van Galen posted in No disks after firmware update “also had this
combination of 2 firmware updates (13.101.140.0 and 13.0.1889.2 sounds right)
last night, but the machine didn’t boot at all anymore this morning. When I
enter the UEFI it says System UEFI = 13.101.140 and Intel Management Engine =
13.0.1889.2 so it does seem that both firmwares got installed correctly.
I tried booting from a recovery USB and from inside diskpart it showed that
there were no partitions anymore.
I tried reinstalling (both with secureboot on and off) but Windows gives
Error 0x80300024 and from inside diskpart I get “The request failed due to a
fatal device hardware error” after giving a ” list disk, select disk 0,
detail disk, clean, create partition efi””
“While not conclusive, it looks like this firmware update and the Hynix drive
(HFM256GDGTNG-87A0A) have issues about 50% of the time, rendering the surface
useless.”
More threads are here: Windows 11 update blue-screened my Surface Book 3 –
Microsoft Community
Surface Book 3 – The newest update has completely bricked my Surface –
Microsoft Community
“HoopersX on Twitter: “Hey @karaswisher did you hear about the @microsoft
firmware update for their Surface Book 3’s that has completely bricked the
devices and they have no answers since it started last Thursday? It kills the
BIOS ability to see the drive. So no easy fix in Windows” / Twitter”
Windows Patches/Security Patch Lady Posts
* APPLE PUSHES FIXES FOR ZERO DAYS
Posted on February 10, 2022 at 13:57 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the
Forums
Apple pushed updates for a zero day (CVE-2022-22620) in Webkit that’s been
used to attack users.
Also fixed today is a Zero day in Monterey 12.2.1 and a zero day for iOS and
iPad 15.3.1
APPLE SECURITY UPDATES
Name and information link Available for Release date macOS Monterey 12.2.1
macOS Monterey 10 Feb 2022 watchOS 8.4.2
This update has no published CVE entries. Apple Watch Series 3 and later 10
Feb 2022 iOS 15.3.1 and iPadOS 15.3.1 iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all
models), iPad Air 2 and later, iPad 5th generation and later, iPad mini 4 and
later, and iPod touch (7th generation) 10 Feb 2022
Apple Patch Lady Posts
* MASTER PATCH LISTING UPDATED AS OF FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Posted on February 9, 2022 at 23:24 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the
Forums
I’ve just updated the Master Patch Listing through February 8, 2022. (Plus
members only – remember a mere $1 donation gains you access but we are VERY
appreciative of any and all donations to the cause and my slightly bleary
eyes this time of year for me.)
Remember I’m not recommending that you install updates at this time. This is
merely to let you know that I’ve updated the list of released updates so you
know what to expect to be offered and installed later on.
Some notes for the February releases…. .NET does not include security updates
so you’ll see monthly rollups and not security only updates.
I recommend 21H1 or 21H2 at this time, but not yet Windows 11.
As always, the full details of security patches for Windows, Office, Chrome
Browser, Firefox Browser, and Chromebook will be discussed in the Plus
Newsletter along with several other articles from our expert authors. Thank
you all for supporting the cause!
Windows Security Master Patch List, Patch Lady Posts
* FEBRUARY 2022 PATCH TUESDAY EARLY REPORTS
Posted on February 8, 2022 at 12:31 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the
Forums
It’s that time of the month again that we wait on news of update side
effects. It’s my philosophy that you shouldn’t rush into anything and
patching (with very few exceptions) falls into that as well.
This month includes patches for Print spooler (ugh) but it remains to be seen
if we’ll see more printer side effects.
So ensure you have (for Windows 10/11) start/settings/update and
security/advanced options/pause updates/choose the date of February 22 and
then sit back and let’s see how February shakes out. In the meantime here’s a
Valentine’s day poem from Kelley Robinson:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Turning on 2FA
Is good for me and you
Links to keep an eye on for those of you that want to dig through the weeds
yourself – but as always we’ll be recapping the side effects in the
newsletter and Master patch list so you don’t have to wade through all of the
weedy stuff.
Raw link from MSRC
Dustin Child’s Security update review
SANS patch recap
Patch Tuesday dashboard
Reddit’s Patch Tuesday megathread (lots and lots to dig through)
Windows Patches/Security, Windows Security February 2022 Black Tuesday
* OUR WORLD IS NOT VERY S.M.A.R.T. ABOUT SSDS
Posted on February 7, 2022 at 02:45 CST by Ben Myers • Comment in the Forums
ISSUE 19.06 • 2022-02-07
HARDWARE
By Ben Myers
With solid-state drives (SSDs), the SMART ante is raised because an SSD can
fail catastrophically — CLUNK! — without warning and with no possibility of
recovering data.
In my recent article “Hard drives — still pretty S.M.A.R.T.” (AskWoody,
2021-12-27), I was hardly overwhelmed by the treatment of the S.M.A.R.T.
(Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data kept on
traditional spinning hard drives by Microsoft Windows and the rest of the
industry. But at least, if your computer started to hiccup, you could almost
always look at the SMART data to find a possible cause.
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.06.0 (2022-02-07).
This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 19.06.F (2022-02-07).
AskWoody FREE Newsletter, AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Hardware AskWoody Plus
Newsletter, hardware, SMART, SSDs
* READERS SPEAK: REMOTE DESKTOP OPTIONS
Posted on February 7, 2022 at 02:44 CST by Fred Langa • Comment in the Forums
LANGALIST
By Fred Langa
A remote desktop connection lets you access and use a distant PC just as if
you were sitting at its keyboard. It’s a great way to access your files and
apps from anywhere, or to provide long-distance assistance to others.
Last week’s column focused on the limitations of Windows’ built-in Remote
Desktop Connection and on the strengths of Google’s free Remote Desktop.
This week, your fellow AskWoody subscribers respond. Here’s a selection of
their Remote Desktop–related tips, advice, and suggested alternatives!
Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.06.0 (2022-02-07).
AskWoody Plus Newsletter, LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, LangaList,
Remote Desktop Connection
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