Author: crashmaster

According to the news roles today a chinese user facebook group has an interesting theory. That is that some manufacturers got drives with beta firmware…

Hi. A recent descussion appeared on one of the lists I am on on windows and a microsoft account. The user asked for the usefulness…

Hi all. Well back from my little vacation, 2.5 weeks then I go with my nefews for a small 3 day get away, hopefully it…

Before we start, to remind all of you. I will be on vacation from next tuesday to the tuesday after. I will be here for…

Note as I write this chrome and mozilla have yet to update but firefox is close to release and thunderbird will release shortly after this.…

Hi all. The big news will be wednesday when patches drop. A reminder to all users that I will be shutting down from next monday…

Hi all. Well, firstly look here. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/set_up_windows11_local_account/ Thats an article on setting up windows 11 with local account and its well written. Next, ai is…

Hi all. Dropbox 129 codec packs 19.11 are out and office has out of band updates. Rumors are win11 has another one but I have…

Hi all. I came accross this literally by mistake. I was playing about with the backup wizzard and havingg issues but it looks like you…

Hi all. Bar a load on windows 11 performance there is little to say. Sharepoint servers aparently got hacked according to local news. And a…

Hi all. A few bits for this week. On windows front, windows latest update has broken the search feature in the system. I have not…

Hi all. Apart from easier migration there isn’t much to write about windows 11 this week. So updates for the windows 10 and 11 line…

Hi all. Well 60 percent on win11 usage and going up. This is most likely all the enterprises holding out on upgrading rather than users.…

Hi all. Little for once to report. Both edge and google have updated and thunderbird 140 is out but esr only not stable. I wander…

Hi all. Well several sources have confirmed that windows 11 25h2 is an enablement package. You will still have to apply with rufus customised packages…

Hi all. Well looks like ms runs updates to its history at night time. In stead of writing editorials during the day I will try…

Hi all. Well with the windows 11 update looming and the free to low cost one to keep 10 running it appears that users have…

Hi all. Well todays updates were a bit scattered but here we go. Expect more. Note, some of this stuff will be duplicatted from other…

Hi all. For once in my news dump I found little to put here. I know there will be probably an update dump but lets…

Hi all. This article on tech radar shows why you don’t use a single point for backup but multiples. https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-user-has-30-years-of-irreplaceable-photos-and-work-locked-away-in-onedrive-and-microsofts-silence-is-deafening It also shows and lets…