Microsoft discontinued its two popular products, Office 2010 for Windows and Office 2016 for Mac. An official announcement says that the software has today received their final updates, and won't get them any longer.
Windows 10 will notify you about new Startup entries
Microsoft is updating Windows 10 to show a notification when a new Startup entry is added to the OS. Everytime an app registers itself to start with the OS, you will notice that, and will be able to change this, e.g. to instantly disable it from being launched after you sign in to Windows.
Enable or Disable Scrollable Tabstrip in Microsoft Edge
How to Enable or Disable Scrollable Tabstrip in Microsoft Edge
A few days ago Winaero reported that the Chromium developers enabled the "Scrollable tabstrip" feature in Chrome Canary, that allows scrolling the tab row in Google Chrome. Quickly after that, Microsoft Edge offers the same option. Here is how to activate it.
PowerToys Preview 0.24 released with fixes for Video Conference Mute
A new experimental release of PowerToys is available for download. Version 0.24 includes all the fixes introduced in PowerToys 0.23.2 plus a number of fixes to the 'Video Conference Mute' tool, and a few other improvements.
Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, October 13, 2020
Besides the updates for Windows 10, Microsoft today released security updates for Windows 7 (KB4580345) and Windows 8.1 (KB4580347). Here are the fixes included in them.
Windows 10 Build 19042.572 (20H2, Beta Channel)
Microsoft today released 20H2 Build 19042.572 (KB4579311) to the Beta and Release Preview Channels for those Insiders who are on 20H2 (Windows 10 October 2020 Update). This update includes the following fixes and improvements.
Cumulative Updates for Windows 10, October 13, 2020
Microsoft has released a set of cumulative updates for supported Windows 10 versions. Here are the changes that the OS receives after installing them. Traditionally, these are quality updates, there is no new features.
Firefox 81.0.2 is out, issues with Twitter are now fixed
A few days ago we have reported that Twitter has issues in Mozilla Firefox 81. The issue is now resolved in a new maintenance release of the browser.
Check Drive Health and SMART Status in Windows 10
How to Check Drive Health and SMART Status in Windows 10
With recent updates, Windows 10 is able to retrieve and show the SMART information for storage devices installed in your computer. This allows the user to quickly check the drive health status. The option is available starting in Windows 10 build 20226, which has introduced the Manage disks and volumes page in the Settings app. The new feature supports modern NVMe SSD drives.
Check Drive Temperature in Windows 10
How to Check Drive Temperature in Windows 10
With recent updates, Windows 10 is able to retrieve and show temperature for storage devices installed in your computer. The option is available starting in Windows 10 build 20226, which has introduced a new Manage disks and volumes page in the Settings app. The temperature value is displayed for supported drives, which includes most modern NVMe storage devices.
