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By default, Microsoft allows users ten days to uninstall a new Windows 10 feature update and roll back to a previous version of the operating system. In this article, we will show you how to increase your 'OS uninstall window' to give you more time to test out a new Windows 10 feature update.
The Windows Store isn't as populated as Google and Apple's app marketplace, but there are plenty of apps that can improve your Windows 10 experience. Microsoft Store features a decent selection of apps and there are apps which can offer advanced personalization settings such as transparent taskbar.
From simply changing the taskbar look using Windows Registry to installing a third-party tool, you've got plenty of ways to customize Windows 10. In this article, we going to share a list of apps that you can use to customize the desktop, Windows Search, and the taskbar.
Microsoft is reportedly creating a subsystem, similar to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, that allows Android applications to run on Windows 10. Microsoft realizes this and has already started offering limited support for launching Android apps in Windows 10 using the Your Phone app and supported Android devices.
An unofficial patch is now available through ACROS Security's 0patch service for a zero-day vulnerability identified earlier this month in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The privilege escalation flaw, detailed by security researcher Clément Labro on November 12, exists because all users have write permissions for HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesDnscache and HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesRpcEptMapper, two keys that could be used for code execution. Specifically, the researcher discovered that a local non-admin user could target any of the two keys to create a Performance subkey, then trigger performance monitoring to load an attacker DLL through the Local System WmiPrvSE.exe process, and execute code from it.
An unpatched local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 devices received a free and temporary fix today through the 0patch platform. 0patch's free micropatch is targeting Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 computers without ESU and those with ESU. At the moment, only small-and-midsize businesses or organizations with volume-licensing agreements can get an ESU license until January 2023.
Earlier this year, Microsoft added the Skype Meet Now feature to Windows 10 preview builds, and this same feature is now gradually rolling out to non-Insider users. When Meet Now is added to Windows 10, it will display a small button with a video camera icon on the system tray, which will launch Skype's Meet Now web conferencing software when clicked.
One such capability is its use of an obfuscated batch script launcher to jumpstart malicious executables. TrickBot deploys ransomware via obfuscated BAT scripts.
Windows 10's PowerToys tool is a great way to customize your Windows experience. In this article, we're highlighting the key features of PowerToys that you should try to boost your Windows 10 experience.
Below we have outlined the major features added in Windows Terminal Preview v1.5. In Windows Terminal v1.4, Microsoft added basic support for clickable hyperlinks in console windows.