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Alex5723 wrote:

Windows Installer reconfigured the product. Product Name: Windows PC Health Check. Product Version: 3.7.2204.15001. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Reconfiguration success or error status: 0. I haven’t installed any Windows updates this morning. I have installed Feb. updates on Thursday Feb 13.

So what’s your question or problem, Alex? What you posted appears to be simply an explanation of what happened, complete with a screenshot.

Are you wanting to know why all the listed software was reconfigured?

If you’re just providing the information in order to help others, please bear in mind that just because something like the application reconfiguration happened on your machine doesn’t automatically mean that it’s going to happen on many others’ machines.

@Alex5723 –

As of four hours ago when I first checked the links in @B’s post, the results were as he indicates, 2 out of 71, with one of the hits being from Kaspersky. This statement is true for both links @b provided, so both files.

As of just a few minutes ago, the scanner has been rerun on the file, and it now indicates that only 1 of 71 is positive (from AliCloud), and the positive result for both files from Kaspersky has been changed from a positive result to “undetected” for both files.

In other words, Alex, it looks like Kaspersky decided that it was a false positive that you experienced. To be sure, manually update the definition file(s) of your Kaspersky installation and try re-downloading the portable version of Uninstalr and see what Kaspersky says about it.

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Now that you’ve vanquished it, as you said above hopefully it won’t return.

 

Alex5723 wrote:

Susan, ‘Topics started’ and ‘replies created’ for a profile doesn’t show the correct posts.

@Alex5723, can you please go to your profile page and click on the icon that looks like a group of three people together:See if your username appears on that page. If it does, that means that you’ve accidentally muted yourself. Simply click the “X” next to your name to remove yourself from that list. That should also restore your listings for Topics created and Replies created back to normal.

I just deliberately muted myself to see what would happen, and I had the same incorrect listings for my Topics created and Replies created as you’ve described.

 

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Not completely fixed in 24.09. Per the SANS Institute’s Diary entry on February 10, 2025, one still has to enable the propagation of the MoW via a drop-down menu entry that’s documented in the Diary entry. This includes the latest version as well according to the diary entry, and I found that to be true on my own machines. On both machines which are running 24.09, I had to change the entry in the drop down box mentioned in the diary entry.

 

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Microfix wrote:

Any members tried muting themselves to see what happens?

Yes, I just did that.

When muted, I couldn’t see any of my replies nor topics that I started. Instead, I saw everyone else’s topics and replies on my profile page under Topics started and Replies created.

To remove the proverbially self-applied duct tape from my mouth, I simple removed myself from the list of muted users on my profile page and, voilà I was back.

 

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EricB wrote:

And the registry data was previously added in the correct format and location.

I was pretty sure you had, but thanks for the confirmation. 

Given how much discussion went on about the exactly correct format for the value in that key, let’s see if anyone else gets new Outlook installed because they didn’t have the value in the key in the exactly correct format.

What would be funny (but frustrating in reality for those affected) would be if several folks mirrored your experience and got new Outlook installed anyway by this month’s Windows 10 update. Would be somewhat of a black eye for MS in that their guidance would’ve been proven incorrect beyond a shadow of a doubt.

@EricB, maybe installing the monthly update in a test VM affected the outcome somehow?? Validation of your experience will come from the same thing happening to those installing the February update on an actual machine where they’ve previously added the registry key in the correct format and location.

Weatherguy wrote:

I can’t open the Download file in Windows 10. …I’ve tried to open the Download file and it hangs with “Not Responding.” …

Exactly which “Download file” are you referring to? A more detailed description of the exact file and its location will help us help you.

Tex265 wrote:

Just to clarify, does the New Outlook come with the January or February CU?

Per this article on MS’s site:

The new Outlook for Windows will be automatically installed on Windows 10 devices as part of the optional Windows 10 release on January 28, 2025, and more broadly released as part of the monthly security update release for Windows 10 on February 11, 2025.

So, it’s supposed to be only installed on Windows 10 machines with either the preview update that was released on January 28th or with the regular monthly security update coming on February 11th.

HOWEVER, there have been reports from folks here on AskWoody that they had new Outlook installed on their machines after they completed installing the January monthly security update that was released back on January 14th. One such post is #2744028 from DrCard:)) ( @wsdrcard ) in a thread about previews being just previews and nothing more.

Tex265 wrote:

Would still like answers including are these apps “stand alone” apps? What happens if you open them? Or are they “helper” apps for other Microsoft programs/apps?

Performing a simple search of the terms “Microsoft 365 Copilot” and “Microsoft Copilot” will bring you the answers you seek most likely. You can either use a search engine of your choice or search the AskWoody site, as there are plenty of answers in either location.

In a nutshell, though, CoPilot is MS’s version of an AI-powered assistant for use within or alongside MS’s apps installed on your computer.

Robin Streatfield wrote:

I am not sufficientiy computer literature to know what BBCodes are.

Where are you seeing BBCodes, in the reports generated when the browsers crash, or elsewhere?

Just wondering why you’re mentioning BBCodes if they aren’t in the reports from the browser crashes?

In mine as well, but in about:config, there are still 12 or 13 references to credit cards instead of credit and debit cards. Also, few references to payment forms or payment methods, despite the fact they changed the terminology.

I don’t have the Mozilla Maintenance Service installed at all on either of my two machines, and I updated to 135 from 134.0.2 using the built-in updater at Help>About Firefox. Both machines are Windows 10 22H2 fully updated including the January updates.

On both machines, the credit card box was unchecked both before and after the update. This is possibly because I’ve had the preference of “extensions.formautofill.creditCards.enabled” within about config set to false for eons, ever since autofilling data to include credit cards became a possibility in Firefox.

I’ve also had the “extensions.formautofill.creditCards.available” preference set to false as well for the same amount of time. HOWEVER, since it now shows with a “trash can” icon at the end of the listing, I believe it may have been deprecated at some point, so it may not appear at all for some folks running more recent versions (in the 130s maybe?) of Firefox.

I’ve also had “extensions.formautofill.creditCards.hideui” set to true for the same amount of time, but, as with the prior preference, it has a “trash can” icon at the end of the listing, so it may very well be deprecated and not showing for newer versions of Firefox.

 

Nope, it just removed the banner but left the topic closed.

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