NoelC Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Second Patch Tuesday I guess there are a few folks busy at Microsoft fixing bugs. I haven't personally had an OS bug in quite a while, but bugfixes in general seem like a good thing. See also http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/17/microsoft-releases-batch-of-non-security-patches-for-windows-june-2015/ I vetted them all by reading the Microsoft documentation... They're mostly bugfixes, which run the gamut from a system crash due to a hardware timeout (changed to some kind of less intrusive recovery I presume) to Chinese characters not displaying correctly to certain TVs not working to something described as a general reliability improvement that has a lot of files in it and appears to be related to the Windows Store. One (KB3058168) describes an update that enables Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 KMS hosts to activate a later version of Windows, and contains a whole bunch of .manifest files. I'm wary lately of installing stuff that purports to facilitate an "upgrade" to Windows 10, but I don't think this update is going to harm Windows 8.1 operation. One (KB3064209) claims to be a microcode update for Intel processors, though they don't get very specific. Very interesting indeed. I don't remember ever seeing one of these before. I don't sense an obvious nefarious attempt to shoehorn Windows 10 (though that KMS update had me looking twice) in so I guess I'm going to install them all, even though most don't apply directly to what I do, on the general principle that hiding updates is not a good long-term strategy. Note: These require a restart. If you don't hear from me in a few days, please send a St. Bernard with a barrel. -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelC Posted June 17, 2015 Author Share Posted June 17, 2015 All seems well. Aero Glass, the theme, and all the tools I use appear to work. -Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netbookdelgob Posted June 18, 2015 Share Posted June 18, 2015 Thanks for the information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osRe Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 I was about to send my Great Dane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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