the value in FeatureSettingsOverrideMask set the mask and tell windows which bits is written in FeatureSettingsOverride so you can request to set bit 1 or 2 or both which is 3 and more
I don't have these registry entries at all, is that OK? Windows 1709 with KB4056892 & KB4058702 installed (and flash, of course).
Didn't we discuss this here before? From here down: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...o-for-workstations.74909/page-51#post-1404803 & https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...o-for-workstations.74909/page-51#post-1404848
@abbodi1406 Thanks your w10ui script very useful. Could you enhance detact alrady patched flash and the patch folder have new flash monthly to remove old one first? now using the 4.1 to make own latest wim file have 2 different flash patch in remove list
the rollup cu could replace the old one. Ex 16299.192 replace 16299.125. But the flash will list after that. Now show 17 Dec and 18 Jan next monthly will have 3...
I always start from a blanc "first release" of a build, every month. I.e: "16299.15, 15063.0, 14393.0 etcetc", no previous updates present.
M$ say this: (to enable) set FeatureSettingsOverride to 0 set FeatureSettingsOverrideMask to 3 (to disable) set FeatureSettingsOverride to 3 set FeatureSettingsOverrideMask to 3
This (from quote above) disables the Meltdown and Spectre mitigations within Windows. Not a good idea to disable all. set FeatureSettingsOverride to 1 set FeatureSettingsOverrideMask to 1 Setting those values to 1 disables only the Spectre mitigation which is caused by the faulty microcode. This way the problem is temporarily resolved, while you still retain OS level mitigation for Meltdown.
Afaik, the second one should always be 3: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...o-for-workstations.74909/page-51#post-1404848
It is quite confusing and messy on Microsoft's end because, you are right, their own documentation suggests always set at 3 for the Mask. But their actual patch (and details with patch) suggest 1 for both and the patch sets 1. However, upon much testing, with the mask set at 1 or 3, the issue is solved either way and SpecuCheck reports accurately based on mitigations.
Not for the case of deactivating the Spectre v2 mitigation applied on BIOS level. Otherwise you're correct.
That lately introduced fix should only be applied if the BIOS update to mitigate Stectre v2 was applied and causes errors.