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AskWoody MVPIf Apple does what Bitlocker does, how does their base not get locked out and stories of missing recovery keys?
I think you mean
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AskWoody MVPEminem (m & m sweets, above matchbox 20)
Girls Aloud
Jetstream
The Pineapples
The Toys (toy gorilla)
The Shades (on the blues bro’s)
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AskWoody MVP(the post is demonstrating that one can lock oneself out of a device if your secondary device can’t authenticate)
Monty Python sketch in the making..
Brilliant! even better if one hasn’t got a secondary device..how secure is that!No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created IT- AE1 user thanked author for this post.
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AskWoody MVPI think this is the intel CPU in question, which is 32bit.
I’m led to believe the amd64-microcode is required for kernel metapackage dependencies irrespective of bitness.
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AskWoody MVPAt least you have an image backup to restore from and try again with the method in #2588123
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AskWoody MVP🙂 Acronym KISS for this 😛
… there’s more, look above and beyond the store windows
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AskWoody MVP… there’s more, look above and beyond the store windows
Too far..
Seal has been posted
Velvet underground & Parliament/Funkadelic where are those?
My next answer applies to you and the quiz..
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AskWoody MVPNot sure, although the most recent version is v2.7.1 which may have been amended? try checking out the author site: pcassistsoftware
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AskWoody MVPJefferson Airplane
the VaporsI see more…
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AskWoody MVPMy experience is, if it’s already there on your system, you can check via synaptic package manager – Search, take the offered 257kb amd64-microcode update and future ones and don’t lose sleep over it 🙂
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AskWoody MVPFWIW I’m sure there’s something somewhere (dll, exe) that prevents file deletion as an AV security measure, just can’t remember where..
Check over the following for anything McAfee related to remove:
startup config
services
task schedulerRestart PC then check/ kill McAfee processes and continue to remove remnants, files first then the folder (my own experience of hierarchy habits)
Your registry will have some McAfee references, leave or hunt out, your decision.
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AskWoody MVPSeptember 17, 2023 at 5:26 am in reply to: Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates #2587941IT Manager Geek,
The Acer Spin 713 Chromebook has two versions,
CP713-2w (June 2030) and the CP713-3w (June 2031)
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AskWoody MVPIt’s actually documented and there is the option to disable if you so wish by navigating to the following:
Start > Settings > Windows Update and, next to Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available, set the toggle to OFF.
The good news is if you have Windows 11, version 22H2 or later, you can choose to get the latest non-security and feature updates as soon as they become available for your device (now and in the future). Here’s how:
My emphasis bolding
Might be worth reading if you don’t appreciate the unexpected..
So what did everyone get then, a non-security update? cr
feature update? or an unlucky charm?Me, I’d disable this setting given how it operates.
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AskWoody MVPSeptember 16, 2023 at 7:12 am in reply to: Critical WebP bug: many apps, not just browsers, under threat #2587748Basilisk browser v2023.09.15 mitigates the webP decoder issue (CVE 2023-4863)
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