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Windows Updates
Over 30 vulnerabilities addressed.
Win10 – February 11, 2025—KB5051974 (OS Builds 19044.5487 and 19045.5487)
Win11 – February 11, 2025—KB5051987 (OS Build 26100.3194)
O&O ShutUp10++ 1.9.1443
Small update.
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Featured in Tweaking Windows 10.
Wise Disk Cleaner 11.2.0
“Clean useless and outdated junk files, browser traces, cookies, and history.”
Small update.
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Windows Updates
Addresses 28-31 security issues depending on OS.
Win10 – November 12, 2024—KB5046613 (OS Builds 19044.5131 and 19045.5131)
Win11 – November 12, 2024—KB5046617 (OS Build 26100.2314)
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 566.14 WHQL
New Intel Drivers
Intel Killer Performance Suite 36.24.1064
Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Drivers for Windows 10 and Windows 11 v23.90.0
Intel Wireless Bluetooth Drivers for Windows 10 and Windows 11 v23.90.0
Intel Arc & Iris Graphics Driver 32.0.101.6297
Back in January I mentioned that there was an issue installing the Windows 10 KB5034441 update. This update provides an update to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE). The update fails for most people with error 0x80070643. The excuse given was, “update requires 250 MB of free space in the recovery partition to install successfully”. It failed on the 6 computers I have running Win10.
At the time I said about this, “here is a “fix”, I tried it and it works. HOWEVER, I DO NOT recommend it at this time. Give Microsoft time to see if they can fix this.”
Welp, according to Neowin, “Microsoft has acknowledged that an automatic resolution for this issue will not be released and as such, the only way to fix this is manually.”
That’s just friggin’ great. A perfect example of the downfall of Microsoft. Create a problem due to poor quality control and then refuse to fix it. This has left the non-Geek out there to try and do a geeky exercise that could render their computer unbootable. Thanks Microsoft!
Here’s how to fix it…
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Windows Updates
Win10 -April 11, 2023—KB5025221 (OS Builds 19042.2846, 19044.2846, and 19045.2846)
Addresses over 50 security vulnerabilities.
Win11 – April 11, 2023—KB5025239 (OS Build 22621.1555)
Addresses over 40 security vulnerabilities.
Firefox 112
1/2 dozen new features and addresses over 20 security issues.
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I’m asked several times a week about Windows 11 and if I’m doing a tweak guide for it. So, I imaged my rig this weekend and once again did a test drive of Windows 11…
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It’s been a while since I’ve written about this and with Win10 22H2 coming soon I thought I would post this for new readers.
In the past I used Service Pack updates as an excuse to clean, tweak, and organize my computers as if it were a new install. Gone are the days of Service Packs as Microsoft has moved to a yearly major feature update (version 20H2, 21H1, etc.).
The end result for me is the same and I employ the same strategy as I did before.
* A note before we start, all my “backups” are disk images using a Macrium Reflect Free bootable USB drive.
See: Using Macrium Reflect Boot Media and Macrium Reflect Boot Disk In Action
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Windows Update
Over 50 security issues fixed.
WIN10 – August 9, 2022—KB5016616 (OS Builds 19042.1889, 19043.1889, and 19044.1889)
WIN11 – August 9, 2022—KB5016629 (OS Build 22000.856)
Nvidia Geforce Game Ready Drivers 516.94 WHQL
“Game Ready for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered” and several other mostly game related fixes.
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Firefox 103.0.2
Three small fixes.
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My O&O Shutup10 Settings as requested.
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Go to Windows Update and choose Check for updates > if you don’t see it the go to the Download Windows 10 site choose Windows 10 November 2021 Update(You can download a full 21H2 install media too.) > double-click to run the file you just downloaded.
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