Category: general-updates-and-announcements

Hi all. Firstly, windows 11 and ms. It appears ms maybe in the process of abandoning local accounts. It is almost impossible to setup a…

Hi all. So the big news is that yet again windows is trying to remove more and more local account creation runs. This is a…

Several recent posts dealing with podcast announcements had the wrong category. I have found and fixed these. Trying to go too fast while trying to…

Hi all. Well its the second week of the school holidays and tech updates are slow. Bar minor codecguide, and firefox updates little is here…

Hello gang, While Ive been podcasting, my blogging has not been around much. What happeened? This month has pretty been a bed-ridden month with me…

Hi. Codecguide had 2 updates putting the 19.23 version out. Dropbox has another 133 version out which I didn’t expect. thunderbird has a minor update.…

Hi all. Though not exactly released official files are up. https://www.neowin.net/news/download-links-for-windows-11-25h2-isos-now-available-before-official-microsoft-release/ These also include the enablement packages for the system from the update catalog. Usually…

Hi all. Well a few updates. There will be probably more mid week but here are the updates. 1. office 365 out of banned. Codecguide…

Hi all. Finally codec guide and mozilla updated their stuff. Dropbox had a minor update and office a really large out of band one. Zoom…

Hi. Well this is surprising. Today my news is for a change about new features that windows 11 is getting. 1. windows will nag you…

Hi. Since there seems to be 2 patch days, one at start and one at the end of the month I’ll put 1 and 2.…

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…