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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For the last few days, the Microsoft Office PWA apps have appeared under Recently added apps in the Windows 10 start menu. The set includes Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Word. A number of confirmed reports say that the apps come on their own, without the user installing anything.
The Windows Update client has just been added to the list of living-off-the-land binaries (LoLBins) attackers can use to execute malicious code on Windows systems. Loaded in this way, the harmful code can bypass the system protection mechanism.
