Nirsoft once again provide us with an excellent utility called WinUpdatesList (via Genbeta) which lists all Windows updates that have been installed on the local system. The software runs as is and can be executed from any location on the hard drive. One interesting aspect is that all Microsoft operating systems from Windows 98 to [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Welcome to this week’s article that is listing all the interesting software updates of the last seven days. I’m trying my best to keep an overview of all the updates of the past week and collect them in that time to present you one article each Wednesday that contains a list of many major software [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

I do not know how you feel about the current situation but I’m feeling a little bit overwhelmed by the Service Pack Release spree that Microsoft seems to be in lately. Just a few hours ago they released the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 Refresh to the public which is available in [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

I read today that Windows Update would not work with the beta version of Internet Explorer 8. I did want to check it out for myself before writing about it and went to the Windows Update website which greeted me with the error message “The site cannot continue because one or more of these Windows services is not running”. The services mentioned were Automatic Updates, Event Log and Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS).

Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

I’m looking back at the last seven days each Wednesday and write an article listing the software that has been updated in that time so that everyone gets a great overview of software that he needs to update.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Microsoft released like every month an ISO image of the security releases of this month to the public. It is mainly intended for system administrators who need to apply the updates to a number of computers without using an automated solution.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows

Just two more Software Updates post to make in this year before the new year will hopefully bring some awesome new programs and applications to use and write about. As usual the list is made of applications that have been introduced here at my site before and have been updated in the last seven days.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Once in a month Microsoft releases their so called Security Bulletins in which they announce security updates for several of their operating systems and other products. The current Security Bulletin for December lists seven vulnerabilities that have been fixed including three critical and four important ones.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows

Wednesday is the day of the week where I look back at the software updates of the last seven days and put them all in one huge article that helps everyone keep up to date with software that has been updated. Only software that was mentioned before here at Ghacks is listed in the article, everything else received its own article anyway and will be included in later articles.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows