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Susan Bradley wrote:

What do you mean about consent loop?

 

The YouTube link Susan posted possible had an automated tumbs up or subscribe part. This means that when the video loads Youtube brings up their consent to our terms page and log in.

I have every ad and every cookie blocked. This causes a reload loop of the YouTube consent page while trying to watch the video. With the direct clean link the video plays without problems.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubYHCe1RTL4

Correct link to the YouTube video. That will not throw you in a consent loop.

BTW. I am on a local account and have not been offered patch KB5034441. There is as such nothing to hide with WUShowHide. None of my pc have seen this patch all local accounts.

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Will try to opt out for as long as possible. After Windows 7 extended support ended, a switch to Windows 10/11 became necessary in order to comply with banking and insurance rules regarding up to date OS use when using such services.

Linux is still not practical and not supported by banking if things go wrong. “Error unrecognized OS there for everything is your fault even though it is not have a nice day.”

Will switch to Apple if ever forced to use a registered account. Apple is not cheap, but is much less fuss and has much better mitigation options in the settings for privacy then Windows.

Thanks for keeping us informed on Microsoft’s shenanigans.

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Since settings to disable the new Proton interface in Firefox might not work on future releases. As the old interface might no longer be supported.

Here is a link to a super compact style userChrome.css

How To in the file description you can change parts of it to suit your personal taste. To revert back to the original simple remove the userChrome.css file from the chrome folder in your profile folder. The chrome folder and userChrome.css file do not exists per default in Firefox and have to be created by the user.

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Mothball Edge as in never run or use it. But keep it on the system in case Microsoft pulls some shenanigans with future updates and or patches/features.

Try using the Firefox browser. It is probably the most user friendly and less user data hungry mainstream browser out there.

Microsoft gets so worked up about people using alternative browsers. That they offer to fix your browser expersience on top of the Windows settings menu. With a big icon that makes it look like your doing something harmfull to your computer when using an alternative browser.

 

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I think you ment that reply for Paul T.

The GRC site uses a dynamic link for the Shields Up page that is different and unik to every user.

Try navigating to the GRC main page then follow the links to the Shields Up page.

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access-mdb

For years and years routers have been getting amazing custom firwares by many very talented people mostly for free.

You need to have a router with the right chipset offcourse. One that that firmware makes use off. When you make use of this then the age of your router from a safety standpoint becomes meaningless. Often such firmwares add extra abilities that where not even there when you bought your router.

The list of custom firmwares is way to long to list here but some famous ones are:

dd-wrt, tomato, merlin, etc.

For my own router an Asus RT-N66U like 10 years old! I use a Fork of Merlin:

[Fork] Asuswrt-Merlin 374 LTS release 45EC

Buying a router model today that is not supported by homebrew in some way is a crime against the environment! Not to mention your wallet. Buying a second hand router to then flash with a custom firmware is a great money saver. Such a router provides a secure connection to the internet for many years.

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The post was ment as a reply to you in regard to AusJohn’s problem. It got posted as a general reply to your top post. A problem I seem to have a lot on this site even though I hit the reply button.

I was using Google to search the various KB’s as I also wanted to know why AusJohn can not get the patch to install. At one point this site came up. And looking into it it struck me as a sort of Askwoody site. Since he talks about how to patch a fresh 2020 install of Windows 7 and how best to do this.

So I thoughed lets post it here and you or PKCano will say if it usefull or not.

Thank you for your insight. BTW your scripts are amazing most helpfull.

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abbodi86

Not sure if it is related but this website may offer some insight:

HackAndPwn

The two top articles dated November 22nd, 2020 talk about how Microsoft changed some things in the way ESU checks are done in the October and November patches.

Windows 7 ESU Patching

Windows 7 ESU Analysis Updates

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AusJohn

degrub wrote:

So much for MAC filtering…..

Guess everyone will have to join on a “guest” SSID

Apple, Apple, Apple…not one of your brightest ideas for locked down networks.

You can stop or resume using private addresses with any network. For better privacy, leave the setting on for all networks that support it.

From the linked article by @Alex5723

You can choose to enable or disable it for each network you use. Nothing mandatory.

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Pretty funny how this pans out. It seems that it is all just hit and miss. I have a very low spec Rikomagic MK36T box hanging around.

CPU Intel Atom x5-Z8350
2GB RAM
32GB eMMC
Intel HD Graphics 400
Windows 10 1809 Home installed out of the box.

It got the 1903 and 1909 updates that installed without issues despite the low specs. June 2020 updates installed and it is now offered the 2004 update which I am sure will also install without issues. Not that I plan on doing that right now. CrEdge is not installed on the system and I am not using a Microsoft account.

At the same time I have a Medion Laptop that came with Windows 10 S that I converted to Home.

CPU Intel Celeron N4000
4GB RAM
64GB eMMC
Intel HD Graphics 600

It got the 1909 update. June 2020 updates including forced upgrade to CrEdge which did not happen on the MK36T box. But here Microsoft update says the 2004 update is not ready for this computer. Again not using a Microsoft account on this one as well. I only created a Microsoft account to converd it from Windows 10 S to Home then immediately deleted said account.

Main computers all still on good old Windows 7.

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Microfix

I did get CrEdge automaticly on a Windows 10 1909 Home laptop via Windows Update after un pause to install june updates.

To prevent this read this article:

How to Block Windows 10 Update Force Installing the New Edge Browser

If are like me and you got it thru Windows Update and want to remove it then read this article:

How to uninstall Microsoft Edge forced-installed via Windows Update

Do not forget to enable the blocker in the first link after removing CrEdge before you reboot the computer.

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Cijan

This Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Computer installation is from 2009. Still in use every day. It has seen its fair bumbs and bobs along the way.

My Directory of C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis contains

User.dat 16-09-2015 0 kb

and 8 Folders

\AsimovUploader 16-01-2017 empty
\DownloadedScenarios 19-05-2015 empty
\DownloadedSettings 16-01-2017
..cfc.flights.json 04-06-2015 1 kb
..telemetry.ASM-WindowsDefault.json 16-01-2017 11 kb
..telemetry.ASM-WindowsDefault.json.bk 15-09-2015 6 kb
..utc.app.json 16-01-2017 38 kb
..utc.app.json.bk 15-09-2015 22 kb
\ETLLogs\AutoLogger 20-03-2020 empty
\ETLLogs\ShutdownLogger 16-01-2017 empty
\LocalTraceStore 16-01-2017 empty
\Sideload 16-01-2017 empty
\SoftLanding 16-01-2017 access denied
\SoftLandingStage 16-01-2017 access denied

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Used this on Windows 7 x64 Home Premium. Everything went well and after two reboots the computer still works. I did it with the network cable pulled. Once everything was done I ran the W10Tel.cmd After another reboot I replugged the network cable. So far so good.

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The article says:

No, Microsoft Security Essentials won’t get updated. You need to move to a different antivirus.

I just tried to update and got definition files created on 15-1-2020.

Version 1.307.2401.0

antimalware-definition-release-notes

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