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• May 25, 2015 25 May'15

  Driver Cleanup Slims Down Win10 RecoveryImage

  When I wrote a blog post on May 11 entitled "The Importance of DriverStore Cleanup," little did I know the post would turn out to be both useful and prophetic. But after investigating the disk ...

• May 22, 2015 22 May'15

  Reflections on Win10 Build 10122

  The last couple of days have been exciting in my part of the world, mostly as a consequence of downloading, installing, and absorbing the latest Windows 10 build, 10122, which made its debut two ...

• May 20, 2015 20 May'15

  Flaky Synaptics Touchpad Driver Occasions Interesting Encounters

  I'm using a Dell Venue 11 Pro 7139 as one of my two primary Windows 10 test machines at the moment, and it has become a recent focus for some interesting driver issues. Late last week, MS unleashed ...

• May 18, 2015 18 May'15

  Interesting Theory about Win10 Defender & Update Stacking

  In my last post here, I observed the number and frequency of updates for Windows 10 arriving via an unthrottled and untrammeled Windows Update. By far, the biggest number of items in the 15-day ...

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Win10: A Half-Month of Streaming Updates

  In the brave new world of Windows 10, updates are no longer batched, but pop up when and as they appear. I decided to take a look at what that means by examining the Update Histories for my two ...

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• May 13, 2015 13 May'15

  Beware the Ides of May: Beaucoups Updates!!

  Realizing that yesterday was "Update Tuesday," I opened up my update history on a production Windows 8.1 PC this morning, and found 40 (!) updates of varying shapes and sizes had been installed ...

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  The Importance of DriverStore Cleanup

  I've blogged repeatedly here about a great little free software tool called DriverStore Explorer (RAPR.EXE). In Windows environments all the way up to and including Windows 10, any drivers that ...

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  With SP4 a'comin', please give us a clamshell keyboard dock

  In the wake of recent MS conferences like Build 2015 and Ignite, the pundits and prognosticators seem surprisingly unanimous with two short-term predictions. First, Windows 10 seems bound for ...

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  With Windows 10, MS will offer an "Update for Business" service

  One of the most interesting tidbits to emerge from the Ignite conference so far has been Microsoft's announcement of its "Windows Update for Business" service. Terry Myerson himself, Microsoft's ...

• May 04, 2015 04 May'15

  DISM Defaults Finally Working in Win10 Build 10074

  Like many other beta testers for Windows 10, I reported early on (around build 9879, if memory serves) that the deployment image servicing and management facility, better known as the DISM command, ...

• May 01, 2015 01 May'15

  New Build, New Name, Lots of Win10 Action

  Whoa! Has it really only been two days since the last time I posted? It seems like a lot more time has gone by than that, but perhaps that's because I've been pounding away at Win10 issues over ...

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Venue 11 Pro Upgrade to 10061 Succeeds without ISOs

  Just for grins, I decided to re-try the Windows Update download for Windows 10 Build 10061 on my Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 yesterday afternoon. The last two times I'd tried, I'd not sat in front of ...

• April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15

  Windows 10 security features may force hardware upgrades

  Windows 10 security features include hardware-based application whitelisting and facial recognition technology. What could go wrong?

• April 27, 2015 27 Apr'15

  Win10: Not a "Free Upgrade" But a "Marketing and Promotional Activity"

  Although Microsoft has itself described its upcoming plans to provide a no-cost copy of Windows 10 to Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 devices to those who move up in the first year ...

• April 24, 2015 24 Apr'15

  Batting .500 with Win10 Build 10061

  If something happens once, it's impossible to tell if it's an anomaly or an expected behavior. Let it happen even one more time though, and a suspicion of pattern or predictability can't help but ...