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• My hot annoyances

  Posted on November 6, 2023 at 02:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.45 • 2023-11-06

  WINDOWS

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Technology newsletters like ours often cover the annoying things about a new operating system.

  Taking potshots at such things is easy. They are new, they are different, and you didn’t have to deal with them before. But what about the aggravations in the operating systems we’ve been using for years? Or what if the vendors have rolled out new features and they are vexing, too? How do we deal with them?

  Here are some of my favorite (?) peeves.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.45.0, 2023-11-06).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Windows Dark mode, Migrating Printers, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, Printing, Suggestions, Windows 10, Windows update failures

• Windows 10 and chkdsk issues?

  Posted on December 27, 2020 at 21:00 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  By Susan Bradley

  Yikes! Say it isn’t so!

  Günter Born reports that a small number of Windows users whose systems have solid-state drives ran into serious trouble with the classic chkdsk tool after installing KB 4592438, the December cumulative update for Win10 20H2. When they kicked off chkdsk c: /f, their systems crashed with a blue screen of death. The problem appears to be limited to machines with SSDs.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.51.0 (2020-12-28).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Patch Watch, Windows 10 AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Chkdsk issues, High CPU use, Office updates, Printing problems, SolarWinds, Win7 ESU, Windows update failures