Tag: Windows

Windows 10 build 1803–BSOD

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As a good Microsoft adapt I have updated to the latest public WIndows 10 build proactively. On both my PCs I now suffer from random BSOD’s. My machine freezes and within 2 minutes a BSOD and aparently I am not the only one …

Paul Thurrott reported that Microsoft is “looking into the issue”  : Microsoft to Fix Windows 10 Version 1803 Freezing Issue

“Microsoft is aware that some devices running the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) may hang or freeze when using certain apps, such as ‘Hey Cortana’ or Chrome,” a Microsoft support document explains. “Microsoft is working on a solution with the goal of including it in the next regular monthly update, currently targeted for a release date of May 8, 2018.”

and a temorary workaround could be :

Microsoft offers the following workaround if you are experiencing freezes or hangs:

  • Try the Windows keyboard shortcut WINKEY + CTRL + SHIFT + B, which wakes the screen. If you’re on a tablet, you can press and hold the Volume Up and Volume Down buttons simultaneously three times, and do so within 2 seconds.
  • If you’re using a laptop, close and open the laptop lid.

I certainly hope this gets fixed asap Sad smile

UPDATE 8/5/2018

Help is on it’s way as promised by MIcrosoft :

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UPDATE 9/5/2018

Despite the update that Microsoft provided yesterday, I still experience freezes and BSODs …

Let’s see what comes out of the community in the comes few days … By any means this is bad for a production release …

A few links with discussions on the topic :

SkyCMD : An even faster version of SkyDrive

The Windows Live Skydrive team keeps improving Skydrive. Today I noticed they’ve made an unexpected move .. back to the “DOS prompt” With http://skycmd.com .

 

O, and do notice the date this “new version” of Skydrive is announced Smile

… Starting today, you can finally interact with SkyDrive the way you’ve always wanted to. You can use the classic DOS syntax to easily navigate your file hierarchy—familiar commands like “dir” and “cd.” Simple. Powerful.

SkyDrive command line window

SkyCMD: Command line access to your files on SkyDrive. Go to http://skycmd.com and check it out.

Once you connect SkyCMD to your SkyDrive account you can do many of the powerful things that only a CLI can offer. As for customization, try the “color” command to give your SkyCMD window a little flare.

Built from our SkyDrive APIs

One of our amazing developers, Luke, came up with the early rendition of SkyCMD and showed it around the SkyDrive hallways a couple months ago. We all loved it and knew that if it had a few more obscure commands and the right ASCII art we had a winner on our hands. The volume of internal feature requests for SkyCMD grew to the point that we’ve put the entire SkyDrive engineering organization to work building it. Our developer APIs, which Dare Obasanjo wrote about in his blog post back in December, are so powerful we just used those. We have even put the source code out as part of our sample code.

Of course in the near future we are going to ship what we recently announced and then some. But going forward the future of SkyDrive is SkyCMD!

Tony East
Lead Program Manager, SkyDrive.com

Source: An even faster version of SkyDrive

Windows Live Blog: 90% less spam in Hotmail, 15% less spam on the Internet

Today I came across this very nice price info. It clearly shows how much impact Hotmail has on the market and in this case also how it influences the reduction of spam on the internet overall.

Way back in 2006, Hotmail had a big spam problem, and we got a deservedly bad reputation for it. Since then, we’ve made amazing advances, and over the last few years, we’ve wrestled the spammers to the ground. Here’s a chart that shows the amount of Spam In The Inbox (SITI) for Hotmail users over the last several years, compared with the amount of spam on the Internet (expressed as a percentage of all email that is sent on the Internet).

Percentages of spam on the internet and in Hotmail

The chart shows two things:

Hotmail keeps spam out of your Inbox
We’ve reduced the level of spam in Hotmail by 90% since its peak in 2006. Since last year, we’ve reduced what was left by another 40% (from 5% true SITI to 3% true SITI).

We’ve helped to reduce overall spam on the Internet
The percentage of spam on the Internet has actually declined 15% from its peak in 2008, due to a number of factors including the legal and technical disruptive action Microsoft has helped drive in the prosecution of spammers and the takedowns of botnets used to send spam. Botnets – collections of people’s malware-infected computers covertly operating under the remote control of a cybercriminal – are often used to send spam (and commit other online crimes). This video explains a little more about how botnets are used to send spam.

Windows Live Skydrive koppelen aan je verkenner zonder 3rd Party tools #skydrive #windowslive

Windows Live Skydrive biedt al lange tijd de beste waarde voor geen geld; de 25GB opslag is namelijk gratis …

 

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Nu was er altijd 1 uitdaging met Skydrive, en dat was dat je niet gemakkelijk een koppeling kunt maken vanuit je verkenner. Daarvoor waren =altijd 3rd Party tooltje nodig zoals Gladinet.

Nu is er een slimmerik die daar wat op gevonden heeft. GrooveDexter heeft namelijk een stap voor stap uitleg gemaakt hoe je Windows Live Skydrive aan je verkenner kunt koppelen en dus in 1 klap je online opslag uitbreidt met 25GB !

Ga naar de uitleg : GroovyPost : Map a Network Drive to Windows Live Skydrive Using Office 2010 [How-To]

O ja, check wel even dat de folder die je deelt niet “open” staat voor heel de wereld .. tenzij dat dat juist je bedoeling is ..