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Innovation has been part of Microsoft Edge since day one, whether you’re seamlessly accessing corporate apps online for work or saving money shopping with built-in coupons. As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week major release cycle cadence that Google...

Go to Settings > Apps & features to change whether you're shown app recommendations when trying to install apps from outside the Store. Continue reading...

I have been long customer with Microsoft and have always favored your products. I had a Microsoft Kin phone up until I bought a Windows Smart phone. I stayed with Windows Phone until I was forced to switch to Android when Microsoft ceased to support Windows Phone. I was sad to see it go. When I...

My PC has a 2TB hard drive, and I currently only have 866GB free. When I go into Settings and go to storage, it shows that my 'Apps and Features' take up around 890GB, which seems extremely high. All the other categories seem fine, only taking up around 20GB. I went into Steam/Uplay/Origin and...

My computer is running Windows 10H2. It was upgraded from Windows 7, I have no install media. The "run as admin" doesn't work so I may need to do a "Recovery", "reset". If I reset I need to reinstall a lot of programs, "Apps and Features" says 173! How do I get a full list of these so I can...

For several weeks I've been trying to uninstall a app (wrongly appearing in apps and features list. I opened the setting page, clicked the app then uninstall, at first a message popped up stating the app was being uninstalled but it was not uninstalled. Still remains listed in Apps and...

Hi, I'd like to play some simple games at night like cross word puzzles or jigsaws however I am not remotely impressed by the fact you have to read thirty pages of terms and conditions of the free apps on android play store. Is there any way I can use my old smart phone or android pc tablet to...

Hi, I'd like to play some simple games at night like cross word puzzles or jigsaws however I am not remotely impressed by the fact you have to read thirty pages of terms and conditions of the free apps on android play store. Is there any way I can use my old smart phone or android pc tablet to...

I've noticed that most apps launch slower than usual. Is this a sign of a degrading hard drive? Thanks. Toshiba laptop, Windows 10 Pro

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20197 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 20197 Bringing Disk Management into Settings We mentioned we had more Settings work on the way, and here’s the next one – as of today’s build you’ll...

I read that Edge is windows PDF reader not Chrome, however, I just received a PDF file which I clicked on and it opened with no trouble. I have no extension to do this. I vaguely saw something about Reader DC and am wondering if I downloaded it but cannot find anything like that. I used...

I wanted to link my new mobile to my laptop. I clicked on settings, link an android phone, add a phone. My phone didn't appear but a Nokia phone did. Nobody in my house owns a Nokia. I was able to see messages on this phone so I quickly unlinked the phone, not wanting to be accused of hacking. I...

iv tried reinstalling photos and installing other photo apps different apps and games but i keep getting the same error i cant restart my computer either when i do i just get an error had occured

my home net is a win2008 domain with win7 notebooks. so all the notebooks login to the domain. i'm planning next year to do away with the win domain. 1). what's the safest way to remove my win7 machines from the domain and still be able to use the installed apps as they are on the machines...

For about a week now I have been assailed frequently by the window shown in the attachment. Note: I can't see the attachment in preview, so I don't know if it will be seen by you. At the top, the window has "Top Apps". I don't recall agreeing to have this thing, and I don't want it. It pops up...

We’re counting down to 2020 with another round of Microsoft Store deals in the U.S., offering huge savings across Xbox and PC digital games, movies, TV, apps and more. It’s our biggest Xbox sale of the holiday season, with deals across your favorite games, consoles, controllers and more. From up...

Hello new guy, here so recently I ran into a problem. Just recently I notice that none of the in built windows apps is working. This includes things like photos, microsoft store, and even the troubleshooter itself (to be exact, the the prompt that asked me to send feedback when it doesn't find...

After I updated on 8/5/2019 all apps pinned to the taskbar were removed and I am no longer able to pin an app to the taskbar. Is there any way of restoring my ability to pin apps to the taskbar?

Can I uninstall (permanently) from my Win10 system: - "Mail and Calendar" (I want to use Thunderbird email client instead) - "Store" and "Wallet" (I never want to install Apps+Programs from MS Store) - "Microsoft.Office.Desktop" (I want to use LibreOffice resp. an older version of MS Office...

My father has Windows 8.1 and today he calls me for the has "changed". Turns out, somehow the Refresh feature was executed. Now some settings and files are missing, and all the apps were unistalled (including TeamViewer, so you can imagine the joy of fixing this over a phone...) There is a...