Daily Archives: October 11, 2020

• MS-DEFCON 2: Incoming! Pause Windows and Office patches

  Posted on October 11th, 2020 at 22:56 woody Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  October Patch Tuesday is just around the corner.

  Now’s a good time to make sure you have “Pause” set on your Win10 machines (or that you turn off Automatic Update on your Win7 and 8.1 machines).

  Full step-by-step details in Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Windows Patches/Security MS-DEFCON 2, October 2020 Black Tuesday

• Touring through Apple’s September updates

  Posted on October 11th, 2020 at 21:15 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge
  

  APPLE

  By Nathan Parker

  For those who follow Apple development, September is a special time of year.

  It’s when the company showcases major updates to its various consumer operating systems: iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Recently, I took each of them for a test drive.

  Here’s a quick summary of what I’ve found so far — both the good and the … not so good.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.40.0 (2020-10-12).

  Apple, AskWoody Plus Newsletter Apple, Apple updates, AskWoody Plus Newsletter, iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, watchOS 7

• A post-reinstall checklist for Windows 10

  Posted on October 11th, 2020 at 21:10 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  After a Win10 reinstall, the order in which you set up a PC’s drivers, updates, apps, and data can fundamentally affect its stability, performance, and ease of use.

  Here’s how to get a Win10 reinstallation off on the right foot — solid, fast, glitch-free, and running as well as it possibly can!

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.40.0 (2020-10-12).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, LangaList AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Post-reinstall checklist, System Restore, Win10 system setup

• What is Microsoft saying to SMBs?

  Posted on October 11th, 2020 at 21:05 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  SMALL-BUSINESS COMPUTING

  By Amy Babinchak

  Microsoft’s 2020 Inspire and Ignite conferences are now literally history; as with most other major tech meetings this year, they were, for the first time, both entirely virtual.

  Inspire is focused on Microsoft-partner marketing, while Ignite is more about technology. Both events showcase the company’s vision of future business computing. But sometimes you have to read between the lines, too. Here’s what I think Microsoft is saying to small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) and IT professionals.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.40.0 (2020-10-12).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Small Business Computing AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Business security, Data privacy, Desktop management, Remote computing, Remote printing

• Freeware Spotlight — URL Disabler

  Posted on October 11th, 2020 at 21:00 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  Are you a parent struggling to keep Timmy focused on online schoolwork?

  Are you a business manager who needs to bar Carl from browsing Amazon for fishing lures on company time?

  There’s a profusion of reasons for blocking certain websites. Regrettably, many site-blocking tools simply modify Windows’ built-in hosts file, which is easily worked around. Fortunately, the folks at Sordum.org offer URL Disabler, a free and portable app that’s difficult to circumvent.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.40.0 (2020-10-12).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Best Utilities AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Website blocking, Whitelisting, Windows hosts file