glnz Posted July 26, 2019 Author Posted July 26, 2019 (edited) Hey - was driving by and thought I'd stop in for a cup of coffee (actually to use the bathroom). Probably some of the preceding posts answer my question, but I'm in the bathroom reading a C. J. Cherryh sci-fi novel, so please let me know which recent surprise updates deal with https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4500705/customer-guidance-for-cve-2019-0708 and https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/bluekeep-is-almost-here-get-your-xp-win7-systems-patched, and are they just there in Windows Update Catalog and do you like them? Besides that, did I miss anything else the last few weeks? All you Europeans enjoying the weather? Thanks. Edited July 26, 2019 by glnz
Mathwiz Posted July 27, 2019 Posted July 27, 2019 Here's the post with a link to the patch: As noted you must download and install it manually; it was never offered by Windows/Microsoft Update.
glnz Posted July 27, 2019 Author Posted July 27, 2019 Thanks, Mathwiz! And don't you and I feel lucky that, unlike poor Europe, we have air conditioning!
FranceBB Posted July 27, 2019 Posted July 27, 2019 (edited) On 7/27/2019 at 3:10 AM, glnz said: Thanks, Mathwiz! And don't you and I feel lucky that, unlike poor Europe, we have air conditioning! It's too damn hot over here... I do have a fan, which is spinning at the maximum speed, but it becomes pretty much useless when outside there's 40°C and inside my house there's 37°C. You know, turning the fan on is like getting hot air from a giant hair dryer. I even had to downclock and downvolt my CPU a bit otherwise it was going to overheat for very simple task. Thanks God I do have air conditioning at work. Edited July 30, 2019 by FranceBB
RED-CHAMBER Posted July 27, 2019 Posted July 27, 2019 That's my situation, FranceBB. I have the HWiNFO32 program always at hand, to let me know when the CPUs enter toaster mode before self-destruct.
VistaLover Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 (edited) On 7/27/2019 at 4:10 AM, glnz said: unlike poor Europe, we have air conditioning! ... I suppose politics isn't allowed here in MSFN (yes, according to rule 2.b: Quote Topics devoted to political or religious debate, unless technology related, are prohibited. ), so I'll only skim the surface of things, limiting myself to the "technology/physics" of the issue: 1. The USA are a vastly industrialized country, its huge industry sector is responsible for a considerable percentage of global warming/climate change emissions. 2. The current US president, to my knowledge, has withdrawn the US from any global CO2-emissions control treaties, while "poor" Europe still has to honour them. 3. Global warming inducing emissions in one continent contribute to the whole planet getting warmer, as the "butterfly effect" applies here. 4. Using an air-conditioning device consumes major amounts of electricity, to produce this, more emissions are disseminated in power plants, especially if they are of the thermo-electric type (combustion of fossil fuels is used to generate steam, to drive generators). 5. Using an air conditioning device lowers the temperature in the inside, but excess heat is transferred to the outside, resulting in a change to the micro-climate of the area/town/city you live in (surrounding air gets even hotter). FWIW, I am poor (literally, i.e. I have only a reduced/unstable income), a European, but I do have AC in my apartment; for the record, highs up to 38°C are forecast for today, July 28th, where I reside, plus another spell of an African heatwave is about to strike, starting next Wednesday... This was not meant as an inflammatory post , I know what @glnz posted had a joking flavour into it ; still, I posted what I did as food for thought... Edited July 29, 2019 by VistaLover 3
Flintheart Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 (edited) Is KB4486463 safe for a computer not running a SSE2 CPU? Edited August 8, 2019 by Flintheart
NojusK Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-were-disabling-vbscript-in-windows-7-8-to-block-attackers/ Maybe it's possible to disable it on XP too?
win32 Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 Yes, though the site is a load of popover junk: http://techgenix.com/DisableWindowsScriptingHostWSH/ 1
NojusK Posted August 8, 2019 Posted August 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, win32 said: Yes, though the site is a load of popover junk I agree with you, nowadays sites want to eat a lot more resources with their html5 junk
glnz Posted September 16, 2019 Author Posted September 16, 2019 Hel-LOW-oh? Anyone home? Askwoody has this post, which predicts embedded support for Win 7 for another two years. https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/september-patch-tuesday-rolling-out/#post-1949416 Is the "usual gang" of tech wizards here working on a POS-type hack? Look, Dave-H, I know you love Win 98, but lemme have some support here, man.
NojusK Posted September 16, 2019 Posted September 16, 2019 8 hours ago, glnz said: Hel-LOW-oh? Anyone home? Askwoody has this post, which predicts embedded support for Win 7 for another two years. https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/september-patch-tuesday-rolling-out/#post-1949416 Is the "usual gang" of tech wizards here working on a POS-type hack? I don't think there will be any POSReady 7 registry trick like with Vista where you need to manually to install updates from the Update Catalog. (I think the post should belong to the Windows 7 category, glnz ) 5
Mathwiz Posted September 16, 2019 Posted September 16, 2019 Yeah, it was a Win 7 post, but I suspect @glnz posted it here because the folks who came up with the POSReady hack for XP are here. There's some activity in the Win 7 forum but it's not nearly as active as this one. I don't even check it much, even though I use Win 7! AFAIK there isn't a "Vista Embedded;" Vista users are manually installing Server 2008 patches. But I don't think anyone has yet discovered a way to fool WU into thinking a Win 7 system is Win 7 Embedded, so 7 users may be stuck doing the same thing.
FranceBB Posted September 17, 2019 Posted September 17, 2019 And in the meantime, over here nobody shared the premium updates for XP worth 15k bucks per year since the end of support, but I'm confident that if a big enough security vulnerability will come out, Microsoft itself will publicly release the patch (or someone else will). 7 hours ago, glnz said: Hel-LOW-oh? Hello... it's me... I was wondering if after all these months you'll like to read... And go over... everything... They say time is supposed to heal ya But I ain't done much healing... Hello, can you help me? I'm on Microsoft Updates where we all use to be When we were supported... by everything... I've forgotten how it fell When installation was just a click... There's such a difference... between now and then And thousands of BATs... Hello from the other side I must have tried a thousand times... To go to Microsoft and try to update And make my computer... once again safe... Hello from the other side At least I can say that I've tried... To tell Microsoft 'I'm begging you... from the bottom of my heart' But it doesn't matter as it doesn't tear you apart Anymore... (Adele feat FranceBB - Unsupported OS). 3
Lex24 Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) Does anyone have any experience using WSUS Offline Update application with POSReady enabled XP? Apparently WSUS ESR versions have support for XP and Vista. The last v9.2.6 ESR was released on 2019-Nov-08. I'm trying to find a way to automatically pull all the updates for the clean installation of Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 and store them on the hard drive. Microsoft's Windows Updates were still working when I last checked on Friday (2019-Nov-16). WSUS Offline Update can be found here: http://download.wsusoffline.net XP support of ESR versions was mentioned in the third post from 2019-July-12 in the following thread: "On decommissioning of update servers for 2000, XP, (and Vista?) as of July 2019". Edited November 18, 2019 by Lex24
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