Should you activate Win10’s optional “Application Guard?”

It’s disabled by default and comes with some serious gotchas … but it also can add an extra level of online security to Microsoft Office apps and to the Edge browser.

Here’s how to tell whether Microsoft Defender Application Guard is available on your PC and how to enable it if you wish to give it a try.

Plus: Sleuthing a user’s unusual Windows 7 to 10 activation issue!

Read the full story in the Ashwood Plus Newsletter 18.33.0 (2021-08-30).

Also in this issue:

In this issue

  • ON SECURITY: The basics of security
  • WINDOWS 11: The new PC Health Check app is here (almost)
  • PUBLIC DEFENDER: Apple plans to break its end-to-end encryption
  • HARDWARE: Breaking and entering with Linux
  • HARDWARE DIY: Opal: How I planned my new build

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Fred Langa

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