In its announcement, the company also said that it is not releasing Build 10130 to Windows Insiders who are part of the Slow ring due to several bug fixes that are in the works. Microsoft’s Gabe Aul said in the statement: “I know we said we would only release ISOs if we push a build to the Slow ring but we’re making a special exception today. We know that a bunch of Windows Insiders on the Fast ring are currently blocked getting to the latest build due a 0x80146017 error....

According to a reply by John1F Microsoft Forum moderator on the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 forum: The following updates will be listed as “System Firmware Update – 12/3/2015” or “System Hardware Update – 12/3/2015” within the Windows Update History. HD Graphics 520 driver update (v20.19.15.4326) improves display stability.Surface Display Calibration driver update (v1.1.381.0) supports compatibility with the updated graphics driver. Note When Surface updates are provided via the Windows Update service, they are delivered in stages to Surface customers....

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Windows 10 19H1 Preview Build 18329 One of the new features includes “Top apps in Search” which will show you the apps you use the most when you open Search. Also part of this build is the ability to run desktop apps in Windows Mixed Reality Environments. “In this update, we added the ability to launch Desktop (Win32) applications (such as Spotify, Paint.NET, and Visual Studio Code) in Windows Mixed Reality, just like how you launch Store apps,” writes Microsoft execs Dona Sarkar and Brandon LeBlanc....

Windows 10 20H1 Insider Build 18985 This latest build includes an improved and streamlined Bluetooth pairing experience for supported devices. If a device is nearby you’ll get a notification to start pairing. This is instead of going through all the screens in Bluetooth Settings. Microsoft is improving the optional update experience, too. Head to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > View optional updates where you will see updates for drivers, non-security quality updates, and drivers....

Windows 10 20H1 Preview Build 19041 Starting with build 19018 Microsoft introduced new Quick Search features including Weather, Top new, Today in history, and New movies. With today’s build, those features are expanding to other countries including Australia, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, and others. Depending on your location you will see two of the aforementioned Quick Search options. In addition to rolling out the Quick Search features, here is the list of other changes and improvements in today’s build:...

Windows 10 Build 21301 Microsoft is testing out some improvements to the touch keyboard design in this build. The changes include: When undocking the keyboard, it now switches to the Small keyboard layout, and you can easily move the keyboard around using the gripper region at the top of the keyboard.Small and split layouts will now feature an updated symbol’s view based on the default layout.The settings menu now has a nested structure for improved clarity and less clutter....

Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17627 In addition to the improvements that were added to Cortana with yesterday’s Insider release, here is a look at the other general improvements: We fixed an issue where If you try to open a file that is available online-only from OneDrive that hasn’t been previously downloaded to your PC (marked with a green checkmark in File Explorer), your PC could bugcheck (GSOD).We fixed an issue resulting in the Emoji Panel not working in the last two flights....

Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17744 We fixed an issue that resulted in certain apps crashing when sending Timeline activities.We fixed an impactful race condition in recent flights resulting in Cortana crashing when launching tips and doing web searches.We fixed an issue resulting in the nearby sharing section of the Share UI not being visible for some users despite being enabled.We fixed an issue that could result in the contents of the Microsoft Edge window becoming offset from its window frame....

Microsoft Kills OneDrive Unlimited Storage and More I will just dive right into what’s going on for those of you who haven’t learned about the new OneDrive policy. The changes include the following: We’re no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage.100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1....

At work my team was surprised just how effective MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) was when we ran into a PC from our sales team member who had their PC just FULL of viruses and malicious code. McAfee, which is our corporate standard scanned the PC but couldn’t find a single virus on it. For grins, I installed MSE and guess what – it found about ten different types of malware and viruses....

Before you start make sure you have a blank CD/DVD or a minimum 250MB thumb drive. Then download the 32 or 64 bit version of MS Standalone System Sweeper. Save the file to your desktop. Double-click and run it. Microsoft says you’ll need 250 MB of free space on your thumb drive. Click Next. You can burn the image to a CD, DVD, USB or create and burn an ISO file....

This is by no means a compromise in terms of hardware specs. It sports a dual-core 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 CPU, 1 GB of RAM memory and a 3.8 inch TFT WVGA touchscreen. As well as an 8-megapixel rear facing camera. The touchscreen’s resolution is 800 x 480 pixels. There are Windows Phone 8 devices with 720p resolution out there, but this smartphone is more affordable. The main camera is a 5 megapixel one, while the front-facing one is a VGA one....

MediaMonkey for Windows 8 / RT First you’ll need an app for Windows 8 or Windows RT that allows you to play FLAC files. MediaMonkey is the best free one I’ve found which you can download from the Windows Store. After installing it MediaMonkey you’ll be able to play FLAC files from your local machine or from virtually any other system on your home network. Once you start playing your FLAC music, you can use the Windows 8 / RT Play To feature over your WiFi network....

Toward the end of Myspace’s social networking reign years ago, it was the “go-to” site for musicians to create a quick page to promote their music and promote gigs. Even after being lost in the shadow of Facebook, it has remained popular among musicians. True to those roots, it will continue to that trend and connect artists with their fans. If you remember, Myspace was filled with tons of annoying animated Gifs, atrocious user-designed HTML code, and enormous amounts of SPAM....

Windows Defender Offline Tool First, download the 32 or 64-bit version of the Windows Defender Offline Tool to a convenient location on your computer. If you’re not sure which version to download, check out our guide on how to tell if you’re running 32 or 64-bit Windows. It’s a small executable file, go ahead and launch it, and you’ll get the following screen to put it on a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive....

There are two common ways to access System settings. The quickest way is if your device has a menu button, just press it while on the home screen, and then tap System Settings. The other way to load settings it to open the Settings app from the app drawer. In the settings menu tap the Apps button. Now the device should be displaying the apps list. From here tap the menu button again and then select “Reset app preferences....

Has anyone ever asked you if they could borrow your phone for a few minutes? Even when you know and trust the person, if you have embarrassing sensitive emails or photos on your phone, you might be reluctant to hand it over. What if you didn’t have to worry? By default you do, but we can change that. The stock Android operating system doesn’t encrypt or obscure captured media. Even when you’ve set a password lock to access your phone, all someone has to do is pop out the SD card and your photos will be just a few clicks away from being easily shared on the internet....

Facebook Time Machine Facebook has a feature called “On This Day”, which can be tons of fun, especially if you’re a longtime user of the Mark Zuckerberg-run social network. The feature allows you to see what your Facebook feed looked like on this day a number of years ago, since the beginning of the time you started your Facebook profile. To use On This Day, go to this page. Once you’ve reached that page, look on the top right side, where it says Your news feed on this day in....

Stumbling across something new, original and useful doesn’t happen very often on the Internet anymore (at least not for me). Twitter this, Facebook or Apple that etc etc etc… That’s why I’m excited to talk about something new I found this week which is actually original, useful and… FUN! FunMail is a free visual messaging platform for most major services and mobile phones . Huh? Ok, simply put, using one of it’s free services what you do is write out a message for someone / something and and FunMail will create a 100% original visual message which will not only include your text/message but also a photo which goes along with the context/theme of your message....