Hopefully this message is not of importance to many of you. Fully patched Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 will receive its last updates this Tuesday as the Extended Support for the generally disliked operating system ends on 4/11/2017. From the Product lifecycle website, we can see Vista with Service Pack 2 left mainstream support on April 10th, 2012 and five years later … [Read more...]
No love from Microsoft today as Patch Tuesday delayed
Despite being the second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft has delayed the security bulletins scheduled for today. From the Microsoft Security Response Center, they share that a last minute issue is going to delay this month's updates: This month, we discovered a last minute issue that could impact some customers and was not resolved in time for our planned updates … [Read more...]
How to ‘Unblock’ multiple files at a time with PowerShell
If you have been frustrated by the warning message on Windows computers "This file came from another computer and might be blocked to help protect this computer.", you are not alone. The warning might pop up when you try to open a file that you downloaded from the Internet. It can cause a decent amount of frustration because of the way it is implemented. If you right-click … [Read more...]