Daily Archives: September 18, 2020

• In memoriam

  Posted on September 18, 2020 at 19:20 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

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• Windows 10 version 20H2 rolling out to the Windows Insider Release Preview Channel

  Posted on September 18, 2020 at 12:23 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  The new version is coming. Expect Win10 version 20H2 to start appearing on forced-out PCs in a couple of weeks.

  In case you haven’t been keeping up on the version numbers, the most recent versions of Win10 are:

  Win10 version 1903
  Win10 version 1909
  Win10 version 2004
  Win10 version 20H2

  Let’s hear it for consistency in naming/branding, and failing to foretell a completely predictable conflict. I guess the new names are better than “Fall in the Northern Hemisphere Conflicted Creators Update” or whatever it was called.

  I still don’t recommend that you move to Win10 version 2004 — still too many bugs, most of which aren’t acknowledged — but I strongly recommend that you download and hold onto a clean, free copy of Win10 version 2004.

  Windows 10 Releases Win10 20H2

• Win10 version 2004 systemwide password “amnesia”

  Posted on September 18, 2020 at 08:13 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  This from WarningU2:

  I’ve made two attempts to update to 2004 without success.  2004 applies fine but I keep getting prompted for passwords to sign into applications, google, facebook, outlook, and others.   It seems the credential manager is not remembering passwords with a local admin account.  It will for a while but the password is getting wiped out.

  If you use a Microsoft account log in, it does remember.  Is this a strategy for MS to force us to use their login method?

  I’ve tried all the suggestions at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/systemwide-password-amnesia-v2004-build-19041173/232381f8-e2c6-4e8a-b01c-712fceb0e39e to no avail.   I’ve reverted back to 1909.

  From the topic above on the Microsoft community forum that many are having this issue.   Has anyone from the distinguished experts here on this forum experienced the same and found a solution other than removing a local admin account?

  There’s more than 100 replies on that Answers thread.

  Anybody out there have an idea? It seems to be a version 2004-specific problem.

  Windows Security Win10 2004 bugs

• Outlook 365 update bug with iCloud: Changing a contact throws “Your changes cannot be saved” error

  Posted on September 18, 2020 at 04:52 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I first heard about this from WSsabfish:

  Both my wife and I are having the identical problem on our PC’s running Office 2016 (I have Windows 8.1; she has Windows 10). I believe this problem was caused by an Office update. Both computers have an iCloud account tied to them. When we attempt to change a contact in Outlook, we are greeted with a message stating “Your changes cannot be saved because you do not have permission to modify some or all of the items in this folder. Do you want to save a copy of this item in the default folder for this item?

  Microsoft has acknowledged the bug – in a one-line post to the Microsoft Answers forum:

  A fix is being worked on and ETA by end of week ~9/18.

  I’ve seen the bug reported for Office 2010, Office 2016, and Microsoft (nee Office) 365.

  We’ll see if the fix actually fixes the problem, and how it gets distributed.

  Office Patches/Security September 2020 Black Tuesday