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• Dealing with printers

  Posted on March 22nd, 2021 at 01:00 Susan Bradley Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Keeping printers up to date

  Once upon a time, I purchased an HP LaserJet 4L printer that would just keep on printing, year after year, until the plastic door on the top of the printer finally broke off. After my initial installation, the printer driver was never updated.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).

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• March madness drives printers to blue screen

  Posted on March 15th, 2021 at 01:00 Susan Bradley Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  The month of March is not starting off well for those of us who patch Windows 10 machines.

  Patchers who have installed the March Windows 10 updates are reporting that upon printing to various printers, they receive a blue screen of death (BSOD), thus crashing their machines. While it doesn’t appear to impact every Windows machine/printer combination, it is widespread enough that Microsoft pulled these particular updates while it investigates.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.10.0 (2021-03-15).

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• BSoDs can be a good thing — really!

  Posted on May 11th, 2020 at 01:15 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge
  

  On Security

  By Susan Bradley

  If your system crashes with an infamous blue screen of death, consider it a cry for help!

  BSoDs have always been an ugly side of Windows. Almost invariably, when Windows takes a powder, it’s at a most inopportune moment: right when you’re on deadline, right when you suddenly remember you haven’t hit Save for a while, right when your system is rebooting from an update. I like to joke that computers somehow know when you have to get something done — and now would be a great time to crash or otherwise malfunction. But blue screens of death are honestly a good thing. They are trying to tell you something is wrong with your computer.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.18.0 (2020-05-11).

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