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Windows 11 is now available for devices with supported hardware features. If you've already upgraded to Windows 11 and you're looking for some great apps for your Windows 11 device, here's a list of easy-to-use open-source and free app.
Microsoft has released the final version of its security configuration baseline settings for Windows 11, downloadable today using the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit. When enabling the Microsoft Security Baseline for Windows 11, Redmond urges admins to ensure that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's tamper protection feature, which adds additional protection against human-operated ransomware attacks, is enabled.
For some people, this is disappointing as they prefer the new updated, while others are happy as the new Windows 11 taskbar is missing some features from the Windows 10 taskbar. Get-appxpackage -all *shellexperience* -packagetype bundle |%. This PowerShell command was used to resolve Start Menu problems in Windows 10 and should apply to Windows 11.
AMD says it observed performance hits of up to 15% on Windows 11-compatible AMD processors when using some applications. Microsoft and AMD are investigating two separate issues affecting AMD CPUs' performance on Windows 11.
Windows 11 users report a strange upgrade experience where the operating system continues to show the Windows 10 taskbar, while everything else uses the new Windows 11 user interface. After upgrading to Windows 11, some users have reported bizarre [1, 2] results where the new operating system becomes a hybrid of Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Windows 11 users report a strange upgrade experience where the operating system continues to show the Windows 10 taskbar, while everything else uses the new Windows 11 user interface. After upgrading to Windows 11, some users have reported bizarre [1, 2] results where the new operating system becomes a hybrid of Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Microsoft has published a new support webpage where they provide an official method to bypass the TPM 2.0 check and have Windows 11 installed on unsupported systems. Visit the Windows 11 software download page, select "Create tool now", and follow the installation instructions.
Microsoft says Windows 11 customers might experience networking speed issues if Dell's SmartByte software runs on their devices. Microsoft has now also found compatibility issues between the SmartByte networking software and Windows 11, version 21H2, that could lead to slower than expected Internet speeds on impacted devices.
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a previously undocumented UEFI bootkit that has been put to use by threat actors to backdoor Windows systems as early as 2012 by modifying a legitimate Windows Boot Manager binary to achieve persistence, once again demonstrating how technology meant to secure the environment prior to loading the operating system is increasingly becoming a "Tempting target." Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET codenamed the new malware "ESPecter" for its ability to persist on the EFI System Partition, in addition to circumventing Microsoft Windows Driver Signature Enforcement to load its own unsigned driver that can be used to facilitate espionage activities such as document theft, keylogging, and screen monitoring by periodically capturing screenshots.
Microsoft's second Security Signals report shows that enterprise security decision-makers are concerned about the security impact of hybrid work, and they expect PC hardware to help, said Dave Weston, director of OS security at Microsoft. "On one hand, that is somewhat intuitive because you're losing Intrusion Detection Systems and some of the network-based analysis and of course the physical protection of being on campus." But it also underlines that while Windows 10 has the same features for zero-trust security approaches that are built into Windows 11, they haven't been adopted broadly because people just don't turn them on.