Jody Thornton

I posted this over at Windows 8. Do we know if the latest patches prevent being affected by Spectre and Meltdown? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072698/windows-server-guidance-to-protect-against-the-speculative-execution

Am I getting this right: that the recent patches for Windows Server 2012 and 2008 do not mitigate the effects of Spectre and Meltdown? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072698/windows-server-guidance-to-protect-against-the-speculative-execution

Can anyone answer how far back the cumulative updates go? So If I update to January 2016, can install the most recent cumulative update, and pretty much cover the last two years?

I was just about to install these greenhillmaniac. They look to be the same: IE 10 Cumulative Security Update (KB4056568) Security Only Update (KB4056899) Should I just wait for the ones to come down today? Or should I install both?

Looked it up Jaclaz. I don't thinks so (regarding Quantum Pixels) If I am using the Generic PnP Monitor (in the absence of a devote driver), am I really missing anything?

So I have a Samsung 213T LCD Monitor, which I believe is 21.5" and is the largest 4:3 monitor I've ever used. Is it actually 5:4? I'm not sure. I like a large conventional screen because it allows more vertical real estate (better for scrolling web pages). Not as many sites use the full width, so it works out better for me. I'm set to a 1600x1200 (I think that's UXGA). I like it though.

Darn! After an update it just resets to the old location and puts new updates there.

So if one installs Vista fresh, will updates actually work without any patching, or just slowly?

And now my flatter Windows 8 visual style with colours on the background windows and captions. Whenever I use this style, I change the Classic Shell theme to flat

Well I don't exactly qualify as I'm on Windows 8, but here's a couple of my simple edited visual styles. The first one is a Vista look-alike.

Oh well I dove in and installed my updates. I have a Vista-based VS enabled so it doesn't look like Windows 8, but it is

Well, I find it interesting that December's security-only update (KB4054523) for Server 2012 is only 1.4 MB. Wonder what's in it that makes it so small. I suppose I always worry that Microsoft will find a way to kill off what we're doing in this thread.

Hi Folks: Wondering if there is a way to relocate the "Windows Defender" folder under \ProgramData to a separate drive or partition. I wanted to relocate all of the scans, updates and defintions to another folder on my D: drive. Any takers?

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Well it lets you place a dot in any of the four radio buttons to select, but doesn't link to a download. Anyway, sounds like I better not try ...lol

I wasn't the one initiating this conversation. The OP claimed that he got a version of IE 11 running on Windows 8. I just wanted to check the legitimacy of his claim. I've removed Internet Explorer using Add/Remove features. So I'm no trying to run IE 11.

So where are you downloading this from? I looked on the page in greenhillmaniac's post and I don't see a download link.

Does anyone know about the task "Pre-staged GDR Notification" (which utilizes notificationui.exe)? Can this be disabled? Also "Tpm-Maintenance" raised my curiosity. (under TPM)

I do live in Southern Ontario, just north of Toronto.

No updates on this I guess? Would running an update v1.75 still be safe?

Hmmmm I tried Quantum on Nightly and again yesterday as a release. Bookmarks were in the top left. As for add-ons, I only needed uBlock and that has been ported to WebExtensions. But the speed increase is quite perceptible. My plan is, I'll stay on the Moon until I replace my machine, and then I'll move to Quantum full-time. There is some usrChrome.css code I use to place the tab bar underneath the address bar. But I like the Photon interface.

One other thing regarding.NET updates. If I install the Quality Rollup for v4.5.2, how far back does it update the component? Four months? Five months. So on a clean install of Windows 8, after I've updated to January 2016, can I just install the last Quality Rollup?

I haven't read everything, but does the 2012 version install?

Tsk Tsk! I was very nice to you in that thread hotnuma, so there's no need for that first statement (I will maintain that wasn't trolling). Moreover, I credited those behind these contributions, and even tried it on my mom's old computer when I was visited last. The progress made on New Moon was quite commendable I admit.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!