Microsoft Tool Blocks Unwanted Windows 10 Updates

Microsoft Windows 10 Home front will roll out updates automatically among users and is the standard no longer possible to block certain updates or drivers, like other Windows versions is the case. And that can be a problem if, for example faulty drivers or updates are rolled out via the automatic update mechanism.

Nevertheless, users do not blindly accept all the updates because Microsoft has recently been a " troubleshooter package released "to block unwanted updates. The troubleshooter provides an interface for showing and hiding updates and drivers.Once a user or an unwanted update driver has been removed which will no longer be available after installing the troubleshooter. In the description of Microsoft is that the tool is for the Windows 10 Preview, but Windows Follower Ed Bott notes that the troubleshooter, based on the latest test version of the Windows 10 Preview, including the final version will work.

Free Windows 10 Upgrade Makes Illegal Windows Not Legal

The free Windows 10 upgrade Microsoft for users of pirated Windows Version has announced it will not cause the operating system is suddenly legal, as the software giant says. Yesterday there was great commotion when Microsoft announced that all qualified computers, legal and illegal, will upgrade to Windows 10.

This upgrade will apply to users all over the world and not just in China, as confirmed a spokesman opposite Windows Follower Ed Bott . However, the upgrade does not change the status of the machine. "If a device is an illegal or incorrect license used for the upgrade, the device even after the upgrade as illegally or improperly licensed to be considered," explains a spokesman opposite the site Polygon.com . The spokesman further noted that the use of an illegal Windows version, according to experts increases the risk of malware and fraud.

Oracle Adds "Adware" To Java Installation On Mac

For years, the installer for Java on Windows bundled with additional software, such as the Ask Toolbar, but now Oracle applies this practice also allows for the Java installer on Mac OS X. The Ask Toolbar is labeled by various parties as "adware." Under Windows Follower Ed Bott shows the Ask search engine bad results that are filled with advertisements that do not "organic" results can be distinguished in most cases.

In the case of Mac OS X is about 8 Java Update 40 whereby the Ask Toolbar is installed and the home page is changed. This version came out the week. The option to install the Ask Toolbar and change home is checked by default. Anyone who does not pay attention during installation has also a toolbar at. Bott discovered the new bundle of Oracle policy. He also discovered that the Ask developers in the Chrome Web Store does not use their own name, but "chromewebstore12".

Developers do when two other apps the same, allowing users might think that it is official Chrome apps. Oracle website now also makes mention that cooperation with certain parties that offer different products, but provides no further explanation or lets you know what people can do to remove Ask their system. Oracle's decision to join the toolbar follows the Lenovo Superfish debacle. Lenovo did this knowing that in the future cleaner machines will offer without much preinstalled software.