From Microsoft's February Patch Tuesday earlier this week, Microsoft has recalled KB3114717, an optional update for Office 2013. The patch was recalled following reports of Word, Outlook, and Excel 2013 freezing up on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 computers following the update. One CPU core would spike to 100% and make it impossible to edit the document. As Microsoft … [Read more...]
PowerShell script to remove user profiles
Removing Windows profiles can be a little tricky. You cannot just delete the files under C:\Users or else the account will have problems logging in the next time with entries still in the registry. The proper way to remove a profile manually in Windows is to go to System, click Advanced system settings, and under the Advanced tab of the System Properties window choose … [Read more...]
AV-Test announces 2015 antivirus product awards
AV-Test, an independent institute that evaluates antivirus products, has awarded their 2015 best product awards. Twelve awards were presented across different categories such as Protection, Performance, Usability, Repair, and Android Security. The awards are based on the laboratory tests performed on the products throughout 2015. You can learn more about the awards and … [Read more...]
Adobe ColdFusion 2016 released
Adobe has announced the availability of the 2016 release of Adobe ColdFusion. ColdFusion is a web application platform that can allow for the rapid creation of web apps. The latest version streamlines and automates some tasks. The big new features are an API management platform, security code analyzer, PDF sanitization and redaction, and mobile development. From the press … [Read more...]
Move over OpenGL and Direct3D, Vulkan is here
Vulkan is a new low-level API that developers can use to access the GPU. This can be used instead of OpenGL or Direct3D. It is essentially the successor to OpenGL as the standard is created by the Khronos Group, a standards organization. Khronos created Vulkan to be an open standard royalty-free. Developers are able to take advantage of Vulkan's reduced CPU overhead and … [Read more...]