Monthly Archives: August 2020

• National Hurricane Center: Get out of coastal areas between Freeport TX and Ocean Springs MS

  Posted on August 26, 2020 at 12:19 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  For those of you along the coast, get out. Now.

  Unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from Sea Rim State Park, Texas, to Intracoastal City, Louisiana, including Calcasieu and Sabine Lakes. This surge could penetrate up to 30 miles inland from the immediate coastline. #Laura

  Take your pets, too.

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• Patch Lady – pushing off 1803

  Posted on August 26, 2020 at 12:16 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Well the pandemic is still impacting patching:

  “We have heard your feedback and understand your need to focus on business continuity in the midst of the global pandemic. As a result, we have decided to delay the scheduled end-of-service date for the Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions of Windows 10, version 1803. This means that security updates will continue to be released monthly until May 11, 2021. The final security update for these editions of Windows 10, version 1803 will be released on May 11, 2021 instead of November 10, 2020.”

  https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/revised-end-of-service-date-for-windows-10-version-1803-may-11/ba-p/1614136

  Uncategorized Patch Lady Posts

• Outlook 2019 – recent update makes it impossible for an admin to uncheck “Always ask before opening this type of file”

  Posted on August 26, 2020 at 11:46 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  This in from BW:

  Until the June Outlook 2019 updates, I’ve always been able to uncheck “Always ask before opening this type of file” for various extensions by starting Outlook as administrator. It’s always been necessary after MS Office updates but at least it worked. Now it doesn’t. Remains greyed out even when running as admin. Really annoying since I know what I’m doing and don’t need the extra warning. Plus I open attachments all the time. It’s especially annoying when it’s an attachment in an email that I’ve saved and need to go back to often. Note that it also doesn’t work if you’ve, say, saved an Excel spreadsheet or Word document directly in an outlook folder, not as an attachment.

  I know there used to be registry settings for this. I no longer have those and could look them up online but given this latest change not sure even that would work.

  Anybody out there seeing the same problem? Got a solution?

  Office, Office Patches/Security June 2020 Black Tuesday

• Problem reported with Win10 version 2004 upgrade: Search doesn’t work

  Posted on August 26, 2020 at 09:13 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Interesting post from @WSmross:

  After updating to version 2004, I found Windows search had stopped working.  Pressing the WIN key and typing did nothing.  In File Explorer search, it was not possible to enter or paste any text.  Same for the search icon or search box in the Taskbar.  I tried all the fixes recommended by Microsoft but none worked.  After a day’s trial and error, I figured out a fix…..

  Try creating a new user account and see if search works. It worked for my admin account but not for my standard user account. But it did work when I created a new, local account.

  So I migrated my original profile to the new account with ForensiT User Profile Wizard Personal Edition (free). Then I deleted the original user account and used Control Panel to rename the new account to the name I had been using before.

  All my apps work and all the documents, desktop and personal files are all as they were. The only thing that wasn’t perfect in the migration was all the default apps reverted to the original so web browser went back to Edge, pictures defaulted to Photos, music to Grove etc. But it was easy to set them back to my personal preferences.

  I haven’t heard of widespread Search problems since the upgrade to 1903 (later remedied in 1909), and this doesn’t sound like the same bug. Anybody out there having similar problems?

  Windows 10 Releases Win10 Search

• Steve Syfuhs: What happens behind the scenes when you type your password into the Windows logon screen

  Posted on August 25, 2020 at 09:32 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  A fascinating story from a guy who knows where the bodies are buried.

  This basically works like an oracle. Cred Guard returns an opaque blob to LSA. Later LSA asks Cred Guard to decrypt something so LSA hands it the opaque blob and the thing to decrypt. Cred Guard decrypts the opaque blob, then using the key in that blob, decrypts the thing.

  It ain’t pretty.

  Windows Patches/Security Win10 logon sequence

• Attempt to start Office 2016 programs fails with error 0xc0000142

  Posted on August 24, 2020 at 13:53 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’m stumped.

  Any time I try to start one of my Office programs, I get

  

  I’m running Office Pro Plus 2016 version 16.0.13029.20344 on Win10 version 1909.

  I’ve tried running an sfc /scannow – which reported that it fixed some corrupt files:

  

  But even after rebooting, I’m still getting the error 0xc0000142.

  I tried a manual run of OfficeClickToRun.exe /update, as admin, and it didn’t help either.

  Any idea what to try next?

  UPDATE: Rebooted again, and Word popped up immediately, no problem. There’s a reason why I’ve switched to Google Docs for just about everything…

  Office Office ProPlus 2016

• Zoom is down

  Posted on August 24, 2020 at 08:30 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  For those of you trying to get your kids hooked into their Zoom classes this morning, I have a bit of bad news, at least in the US.

  

  From the status.zoom.us site:

  

  It’s now working here in middle Tennessee. More than two hours on the ropes.

   

  Other Zoom outage

• Windows 95 retail availability 25 years ago today

  Posted on August 24, 2020 at 07:35 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  August 24, 1995.

  Windows News Win95
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