Posted on 09/11/2019 7:39:56 PM PDT by dayglored
One step forward, er, one step back. Nobody gets too far like that
Microsoft's build 18362.356 (KB4515384) for its Windows 10 May 2019 Update (version 1903) rolled out on Tuesday with security improvements for Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, networking tech and input devices – and a CPU usage fix that, for some, has broken desktop search.
The security tweaks address a variety of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities known as microarchitecture data sampling (MDS) for 32-bit x86 versions of Windows. Intel dealt with the CVEs at issue – CVE-2019-11091, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130 – in May.
The update, released concurrently with Build 17763.737 for the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (v1809), also includes security enhancements for assorted Windows components.
Microsoft says its update fixes a high CPU usage problem associated with SearchUI.exe reported by a small number of users who disabled searching the web via Windows Desktop Search.
But its fix has nixed SearchUI.exe for some. Those griping claim SearchUI.exe, a part of Cortana, won't launch after installing KB4515384.
"What a mess – I had the original issue with SearchUI.exe and it sending my CPU to unparalleled heights and showing a big black pane of nothing," wrote Reddit user cyrenaic101 in a complaint thread. "So I uninstalled that turd. And then here comes the 'fix' KB4515384. Search completely broken…"
Similar complaints surfaced in another Reddit discussion of the updates.
Among those who claim to have undone the snafu, solutions involve either reverting to an older build and blocking updates, enabling Bing search via the Windows Registry or replacing the Cortana Cache folder with a version from a previous working build.
In November last year, Microsoft published a blog post from Michael Fortin, corporate vice president of Windows, addressing concerns about the quality of Windows updates after a series of problems that culminated in the re-release of its Windows 10 October 2018 update.
Despite the problematic release, Fortin maintained that the quality of Windows releases has been improving. "Over the last three years one of our key indicators of product quality – customer service call and chat volumes – has steadily dropped even as the number of machines running Windows 10 increased," he said.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ®
The only thing that is new about that is how it is displaying your browsing history. It’s been tracking that for decades.
I’ve got all updates completely turned off my Win7 machine. I’ve come to believe that all these updates are simply the company’s way of bloating up the computer and making it wear out faster. I haven’t updated my Win7 machine in four years and nothing’s happened. It works as well today as when it came out of the box. I’ve never had any problems except a bunch of blue screens until I figured out I needed to update a driver.
I think we’re being brainwashed that we need to download “updates.” Think about it logically. If your computer runs fine, what’s there to fix? Some security patch? Take a look at the fixes in their updates. Very little to do with security. Just sayin’.
no problem- check it out- read their forums to see what the folks are saying bout it and see if it sounds good to you-
I really liked it when i ran windows, and like i said- it saved my system on a number of occasions- otherwise i would have had to reformat and reinstall windows- a simple 3 minute rollback got me back up and working right away-
It will also protect against those crappy crypto-lockers that hold the computers for ransom- just do a rollback to a point in time before the crypto-locker took over the computer, by choosing hte snapshot in the boot menu that goes to a time before the virus- and youi’r good to go- just a great program to have-
That might be good to have. But sometimes rollbacks are not complete. When I went to rollback windows it warned me that some programs might be removed. So I started to make copies of important data that might be lost. Every time I would click one of the data files in windows explorer then that window would just lock up. I could only close it by restarting explorer in the task manager. In desperation I tried one more reboot. After that then everything started working again. Well except that I had to reconfigure the visuals in my browser because all of those custom settings were wiped out.
I did not choose to install the update. It was forced on me without my consent. Also I was not happy that after I put the computer to sleep then I noticed sometime later that widows had re awoke and my hard drive was churning like a top. Not cool at all. Virus visions were dancing in my head. No telling what windows was doing at that point.
windows system restore rollbacks aren’t complete- but rollbackRX always restore everything- registry, desktop, everythign just like it was when you took the snapshot
I have never had any issue doing rollbacks with rollbackRX- and you can also recover files once you do do a rollback too- so say you work on a document today- you get a virus later in the day soemhow- you do a rollback to a few days ago- the file will not be there BUT- you can open up the file part of rollbackRX and find that document, and restore that also-
One thing i forgot to mention- rollbackRX shouldn’t be installed on SSD’s I think- at least it used to not work- haven’t looked into it in a few years- so that may have changed-
i forgot to mention- rollbackRX may not work on SSD’s- I’m not sure- but it used to be that it owuldn’t- that might have changed now- hopefully
a pretty good alternative, which works a little differently and is more of a backerupperer program, is Aomi Backupper
Here’s a little blurb on it- it seems a littlem ore robust than rollbackRX- Aomi also works on boot (BUT you have to create boot disk- with rollbackRX you don’t have to)
Aomi works on all hard drives, and can back up multiple drives- rollbackRx can’t I don’t think-
But this is a chinese program- however, it does get really good reviews from PC sites-
https://www.ubackup.com/articles/rollback-rx-alternative-3889.html
I don't understand the problem people have with Win10. I have had it running on six computers for several years and they have all been rock solid.
Oh well, it works now.
I’ve got an old dual core tower with a new 500 GB HDD sitting in a caddy under my desk. As soon as I get around to it, it’s getting a clean install of Linux Mint thrown on it.
My current machines are ~10 yr old hardware [$20 used] with a new SSD [~$100] thrown in.
Quite a bit cheaper than a new iPhone...
In nostalgic move, Microsoft brings back PowerToys for Windows 10
At the dawn of the Internet era, developers on the Windows Shell team created some nifty utilities and shared them with power users in the Windows community. A quarter-century later, PowerToys are back, and this time they're open source.
The Windows 10 reboot, now available at GitHub as version 0.11.0, so far includes only two actual utilities, but another four are on deck (see the PowerToys Backlog at GitHub) and another 10 are under active consideration. https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-nostalgic-move-microsoft-brings-back-powertoys-for-windows-10/
People with computers are their own worst enemies. I was doing 'IT' before 'IT' was even a word and it has always been like this, yet I very rarely experience problems and when I do it usually turns out to be a problem that I introduced. YMMV.
and beyond, YES!
Easy to use, low resource usage, and just plain works all the time. Two years and five old computers refreshed to work like new now for me. Just did a 2006 HP and made it like new. The linux drivers even fixed the heating problem that plagued these machines from the factory new.
After reading for the last two years on different linux distros, I am convinced that this mint in cinnamon is the very best for a first time user coming from windows. Clem and the crew is staying on top of stuff well.
Cool thing about mint is that you can talk to and chat with Clem directly on the mint blog and they consider personal suggestions. That could be compared to having direct communication with the head of MS. No arrogant disconnected egos. :)
They are done... Win 7 is just about to go extinct.
Mint cinnamon is the very best for a first time linux user coming from MS and has a great software package boxed with it.
Same here. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Windows 7 does everything I want, runs all the software I use and navigates the internet OK. Just why would I want Windows 10 with all the troubles.
Question: I’ve read where Windows 10 has a built in back door for government snoopers, is that true? And also where Windows 10 must go on line every now and then or it will shut down, is that true?
It’s starting to get real hard to not think they do this on purpose Dayglored. A whole lot of new computers installed with windows will be sold because of this. Non techy folks just toss them and get a new one rather than fix it.
Yes on both counts, there are backdoors and it hangs on the need to be updated when IT wants to be updated. The thing that really turned me off was the dependencies for an internet connection to do anything, and that all the apps such as office are online and require a paid subscription and account in the MS cloud. Been out 4 years now and was broken when it came out and still broken.
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