Microsoft Confirms Massive Windows 10 Upgrade Changes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/11/05/microsoft-windows-10-smart-upgrades/?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=yahootix&partner=yahootix&yptr=yahoo#416ce370258b
The triumphant return of the PC
https://theweek.com/articles/659358/triumphant-return-pc
Apple cuts prices on storage upgrades for older Macs
http://www.macworld.com/article/3137975/macs/apple-cuts-prices-on-storage-upgrades-for-older-macs.html
Microsoft gets hit by Windows hack from Russia
http://news.thewindowsclub.com/microsoft-gets-hit-windows-hack-russia-86968/
Get Out of Auto: How to Use Your Camera’s Shooting Modes for Better
Photos
http://www.howtogeek.com/277375/get-out-of-auto-how-to-use-your-cameras-shooting-modes-for-better-photos/
Can This Gadget Suck Money Out of Your Wallet?
http://askbobrankin.com/can_this_gadget_suck_money_out_of_your_wallet.html
HoloLens concept gives soldiers in armored vehicles a clear view of
the battlefield
http://www.windowscentral.com/hololens-concept-gives-soldiers-armored-vehicles-clear-view-battlefield
Man Arrested For Hacking University Emails (understand this can
happen to anyone with an email account and weak passwords)
http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/man-arrested-for-hacking-university-emails/d/d-id/1327400?
9 Ways You’re Accidentally Damaging Your Smartphone
http://www.cheatsheet.com/gear-style/ways-accidentally-damaging-smartphone.html/?ref=YF&yptr=yahoo
Update your Belkin WeMo devices before they become botnet zombies
http://www.techconnect.com/article/3137958/security/update-your-belkin-wemo-devices-before-they-become-botnet-zombies.html
Password manager LastPass now works on all your devices for free
http://www.macworld.com/article/3137971/data-center-cloud/password-manager-lastpass-now-works-on-all-your-devices-for-free.html
Add Tabs to Windows 10 Explorer & other programs with TidyTabs
(this could be interesting if you manipulate or move around a lot
of files frequently)
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/tidytabs-add-tabs-windows
How to Change the Default Control Panel View in Windows
http://www.howtogeek.com/279359/how-to-change-the-default-control-panel-view-in-windows/
A folding iPhone co
uld be in your future
https://www.cnet.com/news/a-folding-iphone-could-be-in-your-future/
The Unified Update Platform for Windows 10 is bringing faster,
targeted OS updates
http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-unified-update-platform-announced
New DMCA Exemptions Give White Hats License To Hack Cars, Medical
Devices (this will help find the hacking/malware attacks by
patching before they get exploited and cause serious damage or
fatalities)
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/new-dmca-exemptions-give-white-hats-license-to-hack-cars-medical-devices/d/d-id/1327376?
Make Your Own Miniature Linux Laptop for Less Than $100
https://lifehacker.com/make-your-own-miniature-linux-laptop-for-less-than-100-1788535462
This Navy-funded drone is at home in sea and sky
http://www.techconnect.com/article/3138926/techology-business/this-navy-funded-drone-is-at-home-in-sea-and-sky.html
MacBook Pro 13 teardown reveals a smaller battery, custom SSD
hardware
http://www.macworld.com/article/3137451/macs/macbook-pro-13-teardown-reveals-a-smaller-battery-custom-ssd-hardware.html
Ransomware Tracker helps you track, mitigate and protect yourself
from malware
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ransomware-tracker
Q. Why has the quality and size of my pictures been suddenly
reduced?
http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/q-why-has-quality-and-size-my-pictures-been-suddenly-reduced
Why Do Mac Apps Stay Open When I Hit The Red X Button?
http://www.howtogeek.com/279086/why-do-mac-apps-stay-open-when-i-hit-the-red-x-button/
Electric avenues: US to build 48 EV charging corridors across the
country
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/electric-avenues-us-to-build-48-ev-charging-corridors-across-the-country/
Best Solid State Drives
http://www.windowscentral.com/best-solid-state-drives-increase-performance-windows-10
Tweak the Speed, Pitch, and Attitude of Google's Text to Speech On
Android
https://lifehacker.com/tweak-the-speed-pitch-and-attitude-of-googles-text-to-1788571943
What about the personal data on those millions of recalled Note7s?
http://www.techconnect.com/article/3138423/security/what-about-the-personal-data-on-those-millions-of-recalled-note7s.html
Apple design chief Jony Ive rules out touchscreen Macs
http://www.macworld.com/article/3136758/hardware/apple-design-chief-jony-ive-rules-out-touchscreen-macs.html
How to prepare for and deal with a DDoS attack
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/deal-with-ddos-attack
Microsoft Teams: Here's a Quick Look at What It Does
http://winsupersite.com/office-365/microsoft-teams-heres-quick-look-what-it-does#slide-0-field_images-79931
Dell Just Revealed the PC of the Future
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dell-smart-desk-pc,news-23774.html
Congratulations, San Francisco: Your roads are the worst in the
country (and you thought we had it bad in this area)
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/congratulations-san-francisco-your-roads-are-the-worst-in-the-country/
What comes next after the Band for Microsoft?
http://www.windowscentral.com/what-comes-next-after-band-microsoft
Samsung's Nightmare Continues as It Recalls 2.8 Million Washing
Machines
https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-nightmare-continues-as-it-recalls-2-8-million-1788572000
Windows 10 updates will soon eat less bandwidth and battery life
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-updates-will-soon-eat-less-bandwidth-and-battery-life/
Yes, if you delete your photos from iCloud Photo Library, they’re
deleted everywhere
http://www.macworld.com/article/3136269/software/yes-if-you-delete-your-photos-from-icloud-photo-library-theyre-deleted-everywhere.html
Will a VPN Make You Safer Online?
http://askbobrankin.com/will_a_vpn_make_you_safer_online.html
Why Light Bulbs May Be the Next Hacker Target
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/technology/why-light-bulbs-may-be-the-next-hacker-target.html?ref=technology&_r=0
Yeah, Black Friday Deals Are Pretty Much The Same Every Year
https://consumerist.com/2016/11/01/yeah-black-friday-deals-are-pretty-much-the-same-every-year/
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Comments by -- Bob
Primak --
Windows 10 Anniversary Update: Finally
ready for prime time
I just applied the Anniversary
Update to my laptop and my tablet. The laptop had very few issues.
(My newer NUC build got the AU installed along with the OS.)
The tablet is my ASUS
Transformer Book, which is a WIMBoot design. The update was
performed via Microsoft Updates, not the Update Assisatant which I
used on the laptop.
In a WIMBoot device, the
installer downloads, then goes through a three-phase process.
First the EFI Boot firmware is rewritten,
which resulted in the proprietary ASUS-Intel SOC firmware being
overwritten. (This did cause numerous device issues, so I had to
reinstall the SOC Firmware from an ASUS download.) Drivers are
also overwritten throughout the installation process, and may have
to be updated from the manufacturer, which I also did. All the
previously working Windows 10 drivers from ASUS still worked with
the AU installed.
The second phase is updating
the Base WIM, from which the tablet boots. (It runs full Windows,
not a compressed WIM, when running.) This phase also overwrites
the Recovery WIM.
Finally, the installer goes
into the familiar upgrade process for the full Windows
installation. Which takes a long time and does several restarts.
Both the laptop and the tablet
took about two hours to go through the whole download to finished
installation process, with a few reboots in between. Otherwise,
the process would be totally unattended, but my laptop does a
dual-boot, and both devices have a Macrium Reflect Recovery Boot
Option, so I had to manually click on the OS menu item to restart
the Windows Installer.
So it took basically a whole
weekend, but both devices are now on the Anniversary Update. Once
up to the 1607 version, there were additonal MS Updates to install
or reinstall through the normal updates mechanism. I also had to
reinstall the DriverMax utility, due to a Reserved Memory
Violation error.
Once the SOC Firmware was
reinstalled, there were no further driver issues, but I did
reinstall some of the ASUS Win 10 Drivers (Sound, Keyboard Hotkeys
and WiFi but not Bluetooth, as the Microsoft driver and recent
patches are more recent and work better on the tablet.
WiDi-Miracast still works just fine, so no need to reconfigure for
my Screen Beam receivers.).
One Last Thing:
Microsoft to patch Windows
security flaw under attack next weekend
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