Daily Archives: June 5, 2023

• Can we control the changes to our operating systems?

  Posted on June 5, 2023 at 02:45 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.23 • 2023-06-05

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  I grew up on television shows such as Bewitched, in which Samantha, the character played by Elizabeth Montgomery, could just wiggle her nose and things would do what she wanted them to do.

  Until something went wrong, that is, and she’d have to explain to Darrin that, well, things didn’t quite go as planned.

  Sometimes updating Windows is like that.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.23.0, 2023-06-05).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

  Patch Watch Apple patches, Dribbled updates, Microsoft Patches, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts

• Watch out for fake ‘Windows Defender’ scare

  Posted on June 5, 2023 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  My readers are reporting a new wave of fraudulent “security warnings” that freeze the screen, threaten to auto-delete users’ files, exhort victims to call what is supposedly a Microsoft phone number, and demand a fee for useless “virus removal.”

  Bogus messages from “Microsoft,” “Google,” and every other famous name in the tech industry are as old as the Internet, of course. But the frauds seem to be getting more intense and, unfortunately, more convincing all the time.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.23.0, 2023-06-05).

  Public Defender antivirus, Newsletters, scams, Tech Support Scams, Web Browsers, Windows Defender

• Diagnostics and testing? Get it all done in a flash.

  Posted on June 5, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Ben Myers • Comment in the Forums

  HARDWARE

  

  By Ben Myers

  Bootable USB flash drives are wonderful for doing many different software tasks when working on computers, but year by year they pile up.

  I needed to rid myself of my dependency on the many bootable flash drives I have collected in the last few years, by putting the most frequently used software on a single flash drive.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.23.0, 2023-06-05).

  Hardware Diagnostics, hardware, ISOs, Newsletters, Support, Testing, USB Flash Drives, USB SSDs

• Dip your toe into Visio Online

  Posted on June 5, 2023 at 02:42 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  I’m going to introduce you to Visio Online which is, in effect, Visio Jr. It’s available to most people with a Microsoft work or school plan.

  Visio for the desktop is very powerful and can seem scary, with all manner of features and connections to databases — and a price tag to match. None of this applies to Visio Online.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.23.0, 2023-06-05).

  Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Newsletters, Visio 365 Plans, Visio online