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When pinning a program to the taskbar, when you launch it it runs the actual executable then the application either runs for the first time, or if it's already running but minimized to the tray, it has to handle that 2nd exe instance -> terminate the second one -> un-minimize the currently...

Link Removed As a member of the Microsoft HoloLens product and engineering team, I get to see some pretty cool things on a regular basis. Any day of the week, I have a front-row seat to see how our teams, customers, and partners are making a world where mixed reality changes the way we live...

“Surface — like fashion — is a blend of art and business,” according to Skimm’r (frequent reader of theSkimm), fashion tech entrepreneur and Surface fan Amanda Curtis. Link Removed Skimm’r and CEO Amanda Curtis working on Surface Pro 4. As Ferris Bueller says, “life moves pretty fast,” so...

Link Removed Windows10 is enabling Australian Department of Human Services to deliver better access to healthcare, disability and employment support. I had the good fortune to spend a part of my young life in Australia not as a tourist but as an employee of small tour company. Traveling to...

Introducing Unified Update Platform (UUP) By Bill Karagounis / Director of Program Management, Windows Insider Program & OS Fundamentals We’ve updated over 400 million devices running Windows 10 to date and release new builds to Windows Insiders nearly every week. That is pretty incredible...

Hi, I am trying to extract information from one program, then import it into Excel. Well, the format it is extracted is not the format that is what I need. So, I have been manually deleting all the unneeded rows. My question is there a macro or C-Plus program that can delete these rows for me...

Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment to share some exciting news about the work thyssenkrupp Elevator is doing with Microsoft HoloLens. Today, in New York City at One World Trade Center, we demonstrated how thyssenkrupp (and innovation that only HoloLens makes possible) has the potential to...

hi all, i'm sorry to be asking this question here and wasting forum space, but I didn't know what else to do. i really need help from the I.T experts here with storing MP4, MP3 and PDF files i've downloaded using the Bit Torrent client "Vuze". this is my current procedure i'm following for...

It’s been just over a year since we first introduced Microsoft Edge, the brand new browser for Windows 10. We took a new direction, establishing Microsoft Edge as a browser for doing more on the web, with reading tools, notetaking, and Cortana built-in. We built it on top of the Universal...

Earlier this week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update began rolling out to over 350 million Windows 10 devices. With this release, we’re proud to introduce EdgeHTML 14, the third and most significant update to the Microsoft Edge web platform since our initial release just one year ago...

ussnorway submitted a new resource: Crucial (2014) - handy tool to scan a laptop ram slots or hdd Read more about this resource...

Hi I don't know about everyone else but I find that Widows isn't very good at creating restore points where I sometimes wish I had one. For years I've used a program that quickly creates a restore point with no hassles when ever I want one. Installing some new program or installing some...

Hi all, I'm trying to combine my music collection into a single folder on my hard drive, which I've named "Music". The problem I am facing is that over the years I have used a variety of different music players and their associated music storage systems. This has resulted in music being saved in...

Hi Today I was trying to delete some old video project folders. I had one folder that had dozens of files created by Adobe Premiere Elements that I don't need to keep anymore. The thing was that every time I tried to delete them I got a message saying that the file names were too long to...

I want to reinstall Windows 10 Pro (clean install) on my 2 in 1 tablet because its becoming very slow. 1. If I do a backup and after the clean install I restore (the backup), will it be the same as if I had kept it the way it was (slow; without taking into account the components itself: wear and...

Waterfield does it again, delivering a right-sized and efficient bag for Surface Pro 4 owners. read more Continue reading...

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I can't believe I've never blogged about this project from Link Removed. I spend a good 30+ minutes going through all my post resources, looking for past posts on this. Yet nothing. What was I thinking? Well to make it up to you and Mads he gets not one post this week, but two! :) Anyway...

The difference between winning and losing on the racetrack can be measured in microseconds. The Lotus F1 Team uses Microsoft technology to maximize performance and efficiency on and off the track. Link Removed Equipped with Link Removed smartphones, members of the Lotus F1 Team have access to...

Original release date: August 28, 2015 Systems Affected Networked systems Overview US-CERT has observed an increase in Domain Name System (DNS) traffic from client systems within internal networks to publically hosted DNS servers. Direct client access to Internet DNS servers, rather than...