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Alex5723 wrote:

Your Wallpaper/background picture is saved on your iPhone as Lockbackground.jpg.

Hmmm…. How do I locate a picture via a file name on an iphone 11 ios 15.7?  I can’t see it in any of the Photo displays.

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Thank you for the time and detail on this issue.

Yes, I agree with what you did and I had previously did somewhat the same. This time I also moved the shortcut to my Documents Folder.  The shortcut remained on the Start Menu and right clicking on it then More>open file location still took me to the \Start Menu\Programs folder, but it no longer showed up there and clicking on it back in the Start Menu no longer worked  – strange!

I did a Computer Re-start and a voila now gone!

I’ll safe keep it in my Documents folder just in case Mozilla decides to provide a fix that somehow requires it to be put back there in order to work.

 

Windows 10 Pro x64 v22H2 and Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (RIP)

What about Outlook 2016 – part of MS Office Retail C2Run?

Is this up to standards?

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@WCHS

Thanks for the reply…. My Start Menu shows 3 columns.  The left most column contains the Power Button, the middle column contains the Apps, the right most are the Tiles.

The “Firefox Private Browsing” entry appears in the middle column under the “Firefox” entry.  Since it has not been “pinned” to the Start menu, a right click allows to “Pin to Start”, More, or Uninstall.

I followed a web search link and under “More” went to “open file location”.  The link said you could delete or move the unwanted shortcut entry to have it removed from the start menu without uninstalling the app.

I moved it to under another unrelated start menu app, but the shortcut remained where it was, under the Firefox entry – hmmm?  Did I do something wrong?

Don’t want to Uninstall, so currently out of ideas.

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Biggest change I find in FF106 is the “showcasing” of Private Browsing mode by now opening it as a separate window with dark mode.  It also adds a new entry onto the Start Menu.

There is discussion on AskVG and many complaints on Mozilla board itself which they claim to be taking under consideration.

I seldom utilize the feature, but dislike having to look at the new “Firefox Private Browsing” entry plastered on my Start Menu.  If I right click on it, I get an Uninstall option but unsure if this simply uninstalls the shortcut or if it is now an actual application?

Does anyone know?  How to remove this entry from the Windows 10 Start Menu?

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Charlie

C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Temp

Even though I have the retail C2R version of Microsoft Office 2016, I now note in Word that the Home tab includes a side screen called “Microsoft Editor” which I can manually close but reappears with each opening of the Word program.

Ok now really strange, just reopened Word to get more details and it is currently gone!

Perhaps MS messed up and added to C2R (which are not suppose to receive new feature updates) by mistake?

Will keep advised, but possible reason for the Temp files I originally refer to?

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alejr wrote:

If it includes “built-in” audio, it’ll have a set of audio output/input jacks similar to this.

Yep, I have jacks very similar to what you are showing, but never used.  Maingear is very picky regarding not installing any software/apps that are not absolutely needed so unsure if the motherboard audio drivers, etc were ever installed since I have the separate sound card.

My ASUS motherboard is a ROG Strix Z370-E Gaming board.

I’ll check the BIOS for Audio settings, but does it matter if it is enabled or disabled if it is not being used?

How can I tell if there is a Realtek driver on my system just in case?

Did you install the August CU?  Any problems?

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WCHS wrote:

I do not utilize a separate sound card. My in-house sound card is Realtek Audio. (Did I read that you have a separate sound card?)

I run with a Maingear built desktop computer. Yes, I do have a separate ASUS sound card with discrete Audio Control Center .  I can find nothing Realtek related nor any Audio Enhancement tabs or check blocks as shown by Microsoft references.  I have no idea of what is built into (but not used) my ASUS motherboard if that could be a factor.

I guess I’ll make a decision today as to whether to try the August CU or pass on it.

I just don’t have the time to hassle with something going wrong. And while I do backup with Macrium, I’ve never had to perform a reinstall in my 30+ years of computing and it would be a hair raising learning experience if I had to.

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Susan Bradley wrote:

The only way I see that one can prevent the issue is to disable audio enhancements.

https://support.microsoft.com/topic/disable-audio-enhancements-0ec686c4-8d79-4588-b7e7-9287dd296f72

I utilize a separate sound card,  a ASUS Xonar DGX PCI-Express 5.1 Audio.

I followed the above link and looked in all the locations noted and do not see an Audio Enhancements Tab or checkbox entry in the Advanced Tab that I do have.

I do have a separate Xonar Audio Control Panel for sound settings.

Does this mean I have “immunity” from the loss of sound issue?

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WCHS

alejr wrote:

And, since there’s no “direct correlation” between the ID numbers used for those keys and the KB “feature” it’s intended to rollback, there’s really no way to determine if a particular KIR has been installed or not.

Very interesting.  I read somewhere that the KIR is quietly downloaded into the Registry but it did not say where.

I checked my Registry path that you provided. I have 3 sub-keys – 0, 15, 4.

Key 0 has 4 numerical entries, Key 15 has none, and Key 4 has 50 entries!

So I guess we wait it out.

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Per Susan, if you lose the sound, uninstall the August update (fingers crossed).

So then what?  Is there any indication that MS is working on an actual fix?  Will a fix be included in the September CU?  Do we go un-patched until when?

alejr wrote:

KIR’s have a limited lifespan (typically no more than a few months) and, after Microsoft issues an update that fixes the issue, are rescinded and no longer effective

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alejr wrote:

Group Policy is the KIR business setting solution. ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ For other versions of Windows outside of a business setting AND are connected to Windows Update, KIR is implemented from our cloud service.

alejr wrote:

So any version of Windows “not using the Group Policy” is considered a “consumer PC” and will use it’s connection to the Windows Servers to obtain/install the KIR.

Hmmm…. so I am a home user with Windows Pro 10 x64 and I utilize Group Policy settings to hold off monthly updates (the 2 setting, etc) until I select to allow their download in connection with wushowhide utility.

So that makes me a Business PC and I won’t be offered the KIR through the MS cloud service with no action required from the user?  This gets more and more confusing.

Please advise:

1. How a Business PC receives the KIR
2. How a Non-Business PC receives the KIR
3. What affect if any does utilizing Group Policy settings have on receiving he KIR

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WCHS

Susan Bradley wrote:

I still say that “you can’t fix this after the patch is installed” is wrong and the known issue rollback will remedy it but it may take a reboot or two.

That’s what the above implies.

vnffrmpn wrote:

KIR targets all machines for a Windows version(s) that is either having the issue or could have the issue regardless of whether the actual update has been installed

vnffrmpn wrote:

This means that if a user has the update KB in question installed and is experiencing an issue, KIR will mitigate that issue i.e. the user will stop seeing problems after a reboot.

vnffrmpn wrote:

If a user has not YET installed the update KB, the KIR configuration will sit dormant on the machine until the update is installed at which point the issue will be automatically mitigated without the user ever knowing there was a problem.

Unfortunately for this:

vnffrmpn wrote:

We are investigating the creation of some UI to help users know when the KIR has been configured on the machine. We don’t have this capability today unfortunately.

So we can/should safely assume that by now the KIR is sitting dormant on our machines?

What if we are using wushowhide or similar app to control downloads since we don’t see this KIR pending?  The KIR forum referenced above seems to imply that KIR’s don’t utilize the normal Windows Updater system so maybe not a problem?

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@Alex5723

Are you saying that Microsoft is saying that they installed the KIR onto their MS server to mitigate the sound loss problem and therefore if you download the KB5016616 CU now (after the server side KIR installation) that the sound loss problem will not happen as it is no longer being downloaded as part of the KB5016616 CU via the Windows Updater?

In essence the Known Issue has been Rolled back at the MS server level before it is downloaded to the local user machine?

Note however, that MS also states in the KR release:  “Please note that it might take up to 24 hours for the KIR to propagate automatically to consumer devices and non-managed business devices. Restarting your Windows device might help the KIR apply to your device faster.”

This seems to contradict my questioning clarification above.

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@Bob99

Bob99 wrote:

If you’ve already installed the official July patch and you still have sound, then KIR will fix your sound if you lose it after installing August’s update with no effort needed on your part

Unfortunately that is NOT what Microsoft is saying.

This is what MS says regarding the KIR:

“This KIR prevents the issue on Windows devices that do not have KB5015878 (or later updates, eg: August CU) installed, but does not affect devices already affected by this known issue.”

And no one seems to know how or when the KIR gets activated or how to verify if it has been downloaded onto your computer.  Susan also thinks it is after the fact but again MS is very specific that it does not help AFTER the update is installed.

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