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Quick tip to change the default search engine from Internet Explorer, bing to google

January 19, 2018, 12:53 am technology

Hi everyone

Today I will show a small tip to change bing to google for your new tab in Internet Explorer.

First you go select Manage add-ons

You click Find more search provider

You select Add on Google Search

You click Add again

In the add-ons's windows, make sure the Default is set to the one you want

Now you should be ok to change the search provider !

Meltdown / Spectre quick check and update status

January 4, 2018, 1:08 pm technology

A quick way to see if you are at risk for CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) and CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre)

PS > Install-Module SpeculationControl

PS > Get-SpeculationControlSettings

If you see those red line you are at risk;

Hardware support for branch target injection mitigation is present: False

Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is present: False

Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is enabled: False

Windows OS support for kernel VA shadow is present: False

Windows OS support for kernel VA shadow is enabled: False

Now on another note, the patch KB4056892 (OS Build 16299.192) break a lot of Antivirus.

If automatic updates are enabled, the January 2018 Windows security update will be offered to the devices running supported anti-virus (AV) applications. Updates can be installed in any order.

A quick and dirty tip, if the install is installed is to add that registry key for disabling the fix for the time your Antivirus get updated;

Contact your Anti-Virus AV to confirm that their software is compatible and have set the following REGKEY on the machine

Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"Subkey="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\QualityCompat"
Value Name="cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc"
Type="REG_DWORD”
Data="0x00000000”

Reference:

ADV180002 | Guidance to mitigate speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities

January 3, 2018—KB4056892 (OS Build 16299.192)

Error 0x8004010F when you try to send or receive email in Outlook

December 15, 2017, 3:01 pm technology

Hi folks

Today I will talk a small issue I got this week on Outlook.

I have Outlook 2013, and for an unknown reason when I used to open Outlook the data file was opening, and I was able to see the PST content, but the Send / Receive was blocking with an error 0x8004010F.

I read Error 0x8004010F when you try to send or receive email in Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013 and without luck the error was still there.

I discovered that when you check the data file linked to your mail account, displayed there;

Even if the file exist and is visible, you need to be sure a folder is selected in that other windows too, displayed there at the bottom;

Enjoy the small tip :)

October 10 Delta Patch

October 13, 2017, 12:46 am technology

Windows devices may fail to boot after installing October 10 version of KB4041676 or KB4041691 that contained a publishing issue.

Please watch out any WSUS or SCCM admin, as when Microsoft will expire those two patch a resync might be necessary to remove those patchs from your console.

For full detail please read more there; https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4049094/windows-devices-may-fail-to-boot-after-installing-october-10-version-o