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Latest Windows update disables key security setting – but there’s a workaround

A bug in Microsoft's October Windows update prevents you from turning on a security setting that blocks malicious or suspicious apps. A Registry hack fixes the glitch.

Tarun Mottlia

Via ZDNET

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Latest Windows update disables key security setting – but there’s a workaround
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ZDNET’s key takeaways

The October Windows update disables Smart App Control.

You’re unable to turn on the feature if it’s turned off.

You can temporarily squash the bug through a Registry hack.

Microsoft’s monthly Windows updates always seem to sneak in some new bug that impacts an important feature or setting. And that’s the case with this month’s update.

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Rolled out on October 13, the…

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