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Windows 10 update version 1903: Act fast to delay this big upgrade

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Windows 10 update version 1903: Act fast to delay this big upgrade Each time Microsoft rolls out a major upgrade to Windows 10, you have the option to wait a few months before you install it on PCs running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise. But you have to act quickly. [Note: This article has been completely revised for the latest Windows 10 feature updates. This revision covers version 1903 and was last updated 25-March-2019.] Sometime this month, Microsoft will finalize its next big feature update. If the company follows its longstanding practice, Windows Update servers will begin delivering the Windows 10 version 1903 update in April, to current installations of Windows 10 that have been running for at least 30 days. Next for Windows 10: What to expect from the April 2019 Update This is the latest feature update in Microsoft's new twice-a-year release cadence, and you should view it with the skepticism any initial public release of a new Windows version deserves. In a business settin...

Google Says Upgrade To Windows 10 After Critical Flaws Found In Chrome And Windows 7

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Earlier this week Google released an update for the Chrome web browser that it urged users to ensure was implemented immediately. That was because the Threat Analysis Group at Google had uncovered a critical zero-day vulnerability that was already being exploited in the wild. Now a Google security engineer, Clement Lecigne, has warned that another zero-day vulnerability that is also being exploited, impacting Windows 7 users, was being used together with the Chrome exploit to take over Windows systems. Google is now urging all Windows 7 users to upgrade to Windows 10, as well as make sure their Chrome browser is up to date, to escape the attention of the combined threat. The Windows zero-day is a local privilege escalation in the win32k.sys kernel driver that allows it to escape the security sandbox. The vulnerability can be used to elevate system privileges by an attacker who might then be able to execute remote malicious code. ”The vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference in win3...

Latest Windows 10 Update Kills Performance in Some Games

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If you recently updated your Windows 10 PC and are now having problems in certain games, it may not be anything on your system that changed. The OS update Microsoft pushed on March 1 — KB4482887 (OS Build 17763.348) has known problems in certain games that are leading to massive performance issues. Some players report that certain games are now borderline unplayable as a result. KB4482887 was supposed to be a mainstream quality-of-life improvement for Windows 10, with support for the “Retpoline” method of fixing Spectre and Meltdown and various reliability fixes. None of the issues mentioned appear to be particularly relevant to game performance. Even the Spectre and Meltdown patches shouldn’t be the culprit here. Gaming performance has never been shown to be significantly impacted by this kind of patching, Retpoline wasn’t expected to have this impact, and the support for Retpoline that Microsoft integrated into Windows 10 with this patch is disabled by default. You have to activate ...

How to reset Dahua DVR admin password

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In this article, I will talk about how to reset Dahua DVR admin password. If you lost the password and can't have access to your DVR, here you can find different methods to recover your device to use the Dahua default password. All depends on the model you have, perhaps the solution for your problem it's right here, just keep reading. To reset a Dahua DVR and recover the admin password, you just need to either use a reset button located on the motherboard, try a default password or use a software to generate a new password based on the device date. Let's talk about the different methods so you can try to use the one that best suits your needs according to your Dahua DVR model. Method number 1 - Using the reset button This method will depend on the DVR you have, some of them come with a reset button that is located on the motherboard. you just need to open your device to check if that's your case. See the following pictures that show such button. Note that in this DVR mo...

How do I create a new partition in Windows Server 2012 and 2008 R2?

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1. You can add a partition in Windows Server 2008 R2 by following these steps: Click 'Start' then 'Administrative Tools' and 'Computer Management’.  2. Go to 'Disk Management’. 3. Check to see if there's free disk space available. Right-click on the 'Unallocated' space and Select 'New Simple Volume’.  4. Click 'Next’.  4. Choose what size the partition should be and click 'next’. 5. Choose a drive letter and click 'next’.  6. Here you can choose to format the new partition with either FAT32 or NTFS. We advise you choose NTFS as this is the better filesystem. The allocation unit size can be set to default or a custom unit size. You can enter a name for the partition under ‘Volume label’.  7. Check the 'Perform a quick format’ box and click 'next'. Review the configuration and click 'finish' to complete the wizard.