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Made the page transition animations faster. Helps when running in VMs with no GPU.
The tooltips in the Protect tab now appear with more delay on hover.
Updated required OS version from 22621.3880 to 22621.4169.
Changed the PowerShell Gallery's icon to align with the new app icon that's been in use.
Windows Networking Category
Added 2 policies to configure the Cipher Suites of the SMB for both server and client from the default value of AES_128_GCM,AES_128_CCM,AES_256_GCM,AES_256_CCM to AES_256_GCM,AES_256_CCM,AES_128_GCM,AES_128_CCM. More info -> https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/issues/351
What's New
Windows Networking Category
Added 2 policies to configure the Cipher Suites of the SMB for both server and client from the default value of
AES_128_GCM,AES_128_CCM,AES_256_GCM,AES_256_CCMtoAES_256_GCM,AES_256_CCM,AES_128_GCM,AES_128_CCM. More info -> https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/issues/351Added 2 policies to enable SMB over QUIC for both server and client. More info -> https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/issues/351
Made the NTLM blocking policy in the Windows Networking category an optional sub-category. More info -> https://github.com/HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security/issues/353
Miscellaneous Category