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How to beautify the Windows 10 Search feature
2020-11-08 16:05

Windows Search is one of the flagship features of Windows 10 and it allows you to search for your local files and web. While Windows Search works great, the overall user interface of the search page has largely remained unchanged and it's also missing dark theme in the production builds.

Week in review: Windows zero-day exploited, Patch Tuesday forecast, selecting a compliance solution
2020-11-08 09:45

Git LFS vulnerability allows attackers to compromise targets' Windows systemsA critical vulnerability in Git Large File Storage, an open source Git extension for versioning large files, allows attackers to achieve remote code execution if the Windows-using victim is tricked into cloning the attacker's malicious repository using a vulnerable Git version control tool, security researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered. November 2020 Patch Tuesday forecast: Significant OS changes aheadNovember Patch Tuesday and the end-of-year holidays are rapidly approaching.

Download ISOs for any version of Windows 10 with this script
2020-11-07 13:35

A new script makes it easy to create an ISO for any version of Windows 10, including Windows 10 version 1507 through 20H2. For those not familiar with ISO images, they are a sector-by-sector copy of a DVD. This ISO file can then be written, or burned, to a DVD to create a replica of the original media, mounted as a drive letter in Windows, or extracted by a program like 7-Zip to access the contained files. If you want to perform a clean install of Windows 10 or run into a problem, it is always helpful to download an ISO that can be used to create Windows 10 media.

This script lets you download ISOs for any Windows 10 version
2020-11-07 13:35

A new script makes it easy to create an ISO for any version of Windows 10, including Windows 10 version 1507 through 20H2. For those not familiar with ISO images, they are a sector-by-sector copy of a DVD. This ISO file can then be written, or burned, to a DVD to create a replica of the original media, mounted as a drive letter in Windows, or extracted by a program like 7-Zip to access the contained files. If you want to perform a clean install of Windows 10 or run into a problem, it is always helpful to download an ISO that can be used to create Windows 10 media.

Managing Windows 10 apps with the Chocolatey package manager
2020-11-07 12:30

Chocolatey is a Windows package manager that lets you quickly install new software or prep a new Windows 10 installations with your favorite applications, all from the command line. Like every other package manager, Chocolatey is entirely a command-line tool where you have to type in the commands you wish to execute.

New Windows 10 policy lets you disable cloud customized taskbars
2020-11-06 16:37

Microsoft has added a new group policy in Windows 10 20H2 that allows you to disable a new feature that customizes the taskbar based on what accounts or devices you have. In the Windows 10 Insider Build 20161, Microsoft introduced a new feature called "Programmable Taskbar" that customizes the Windows 10 taskbar when logging into an account for the first time.

How to view your SSH keys in Linux, macOS, and Windows
2020-11-06 15:36

There are two easy ways to view your SSH public key in Linux. The above command will print out your SSH key on your Linux machine, without prompting you for your key authentication password.

Windows 10 20H2 LSASS crash issue causes forced reboots
2020-11-06 11:18

Microsoft has acknowledged a new known issue causing forced restarts on Windows 10 20H2 devices due to the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service system process crashing. "To prevent the issue and not receive the safeguard hold, you will need to name all built-in user counts back to their default name before attempting to update to Windows 10, version 2004 or Windows 10, version 20H2," Microsoft says.

Windows 10 20H2 crashes when connecting Thunderbolt NVMe SSDs
2020-11-06 10:19

Microsoft says that devices running Windows 10 2004 or Windows 10 20H2 might crash with blue screens of death when users plug in a Thunderbolt NVMe Solid State Drive. Windows 10 devices with at least one Thunderbolt NVMe SSD and one Thunderbolt port are the ones impacted by this new known issue.

Git LFS vulnerability allows attackers to compromise targets’ Windows systems (CVE-2020-27955)
2020-11-05 11:14

A critical vulnerability in Git Large File Storage, an open source Git extension for versioning large files, allows attackers to achieve remote code execution if the Windows-using victim is tricked into cloning the attacker's malicious repository using a vulnerable Git version control tool, security researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered. Golunski found that Git LFS does not specify a full path to git binary when executing a new git process via a specific exec.