Razvan Serea wrote a good review of Windows Ultimate Tweaker 4.7 over at Neowin, including the change log. There are more than two hundred new tweaks, and most pertinently new ones in the privacy and security sections...nice for the folks who are new to W10 from W7 and who are (rightfully) concerned about the former. The full list of the tweaks are here: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/list-of-tweaks-available-in-uwt4 . Here's a screenie showing privacy tweaks. The red ar...
Jafo made the remark on a post of mine recently that he does no banking on his phone. There's an excellent reason not to. I'd heard it wasn't wise because of the vulnerability of phones, and public networks (man in the middle attacks), though not because of SIM swap fraud! So, I have to admit, this one's a new one for me. SIM swap fraud. Turns out they’re easy pickings for hackers. So, what’s SIM swap fraud? "SIM swapping occurs when someone contacts your wireless carrier...
The new Edge is here, promising more extensions and a far better search engine, based on Chromium, the same engine powering Google's Chrome browser. This makes it more compatible with websites other, less popular browsers have problems with. This also means that after granting Edge permission, it can use Chrome extensions from the Google Playstore, which has far more than Microsoft's. Downloading and installing are explained in the linked article, above. You don't have to unins...
W7 ran its course from 2009 to 2020. MS has notified that there will be no more support for W7, meaning its kernel will become vulnerable to attack: "Security updates are essential to staying safe online, and Windows 10 is getting them while Windows 7 isn’t. Many flaws found in Windows 10 will also apply to Windows 7. Attackers will hear about them and can start attacking those vulnerable Windows 7 systems. As more time goes by, more unpatched, known flaws will exist in Windows 7...
Remember how useful God mode was? I haven't seen how to create it in W10...until good old Tech Republic (link above) mentioned it in a simple "how to". Just make sure you're the Administrator, right click on your desktop and create a new file. Name it: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and press "Enter". This is what you should see when you double click on the blue file: Mine is dark mode enabled from my prior article ( https://forums.wincustomize.com/498171/...
Dark mode has become popular for its eye and battery saving properties. I get daily updates from gHacks.net. Lo and behold, three days ago I got this email from them. The app works not just on W10 1803 and later, but also on Chrome and firefox. W10's dark mode can be accessed without this app, but it takes time, and frankly, this is easy-peasy: "Advantages of Easy Dark Mode: Enables quick switching between Light and Dark display modes in Windows 10. Selectable Hotkey. Fu...
Windows Defender is an excellent antivirus and antispyware. On my machine, I use it and Malwarebytes Premium. I also try to use common sense as to where I visit, and what I open. Advanced Threat Detection was added to Defender ( MS ) as a voluntary service. It was originally part of Enterprise solutions. I opted to add it to my system. I've had to remove it, since I didn't want to roll back the update and wait hopefully for a bug fix which would break something else. "Microsoft Defender AT...
Yet again insiders warned of processor spike and shortened battery life only to be ignored. This time your bluetooth connection can be broken, as well all due to a botched update to Cortana. https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/09/01/microsoft-windows-10-update-problem-cpu-performance-warning-upgrade-windows-10/amp/
Was culling my email and found this article with links to some truly great recovery/repair and restoration disks and tools. Hope you never need them, but if you do, it's great to have one on hand. Source: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-best-rescue-disks-windows-system-restore/
In this day and age of massive data breaches, one runs to change passwords quickly, and perhaps without need. The link above will put Password Checkup extension on Chrome. Imho, it's worth it because it "will automatically check whether your passwords have been exposed in a data breach. Once installed, the extension checks any login details you use — Google says “most” US sites are supported — against a database of around four billion usernames and passwords, and warns...
Glad to share the link above with anyone getting fed up with Adobe's sharing apps for increasing subscription fees. In the Lifehacker article, there are 27 free apps for just about any need. Enjoy!
The release runs with Version 5.666 of Winamp as a patch. You can read more about it at the link above.
It goes like this... B Updates: They're the Patch Tuesday Updates. "The big updates most people are familiar with come out on “Patch Tuesday,” the second Tuesday of the month. These are called “B” updates because they’re released in the second week of the month. That explains why there are no “A” updates, as Microsoft doesn’t generally release updates in the first week of the month. B updates are the most important updat...
Stumbled across the article linked above...has some good stuff and ways to get to stuff like no longer existent websites...etc. Worth a look...enjoy.
Ran across this little gem this morning... Looks like Chrome took all the marbles...First Mozilla caved and Fire Fox's engine became Chrome...and then there was one, and now... Link: https://m.windowscentral.com/microsoft-building-chromium-powered-web-browser-windows-10