error handling

I recently had to restore a windows 7 computer. When I restored my media files, they were already formatted to windows 10. Now the windows 7 computer won't read any of the playlists. As much as I've tried, I can't find a way to get the playlists to work again in the older format. Any ideas how...

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Assume I have (under 64bit Win 7) a big program installation with one main *.exe file and lots of *.dlls. It seems to me that some but not all of these *.dlls need a registration (by regsvr32) which is done typically at installation time. Some other *.dlls seem to need NO such registration but...

Hello, i setup ssh (cygwin) and execute command with psexec on the remote server, which works as expected. Then i added my pub key to my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys to login without pw. After that i cannot execute psexec commands, it says ”handle is invalid“. Checked twice, remove my pub key from...

Editor’s note: This is part two in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest page, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB. In the previous post in this series, I talked a lot about how the 10k...

You’ve just boarded your airplane flight, found a free spot in the overhead to store your carry-on and settle in for the journey by pulling out your Windows 10 device to check for status updates on your various social networks. Suddenly, you are aware of a polite flight attendant hovering over...

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After a certain amount of idle time, Windows 10 devices may dim the display, activate the lock screen, or power down the display in order to conserve power. The amount of idle time required before this occurs depends on a device’s user settings. Unfortunately, this can turn out to be an...

Me again, I have a new Win7 Pro machine. It appears it's only updated to SP-1. Yesterday I asked it to check for updates. It returned 'Checking for Updates'. It was still checking for updates when I went to bed with no result. Other machines would come back with the number and type of...

Recently, we introduced Microsoft Edge’s new accessibility architecture, which inherently supports modern web standards, and provides a foundation to make the web platform more accessible than ever. To build a comprehensive ecosystem across all products and users of every ability, assistive...

I have been playing with windows server 2008 for about 2 months now, or less, I installed it on an old computer. It has been running fine up until now. I has developed a problem. It keeps rebooting and i am unable to get inside the OS. It starts up and at the windows logo it reboots itself...

Okay, so I was trying to download a driver for my nvidia graphics card when during the installation of the driver, my computer brough up a screen saying there was an error with the installation and that they were gathering information on the error, I cant quite remember what the error was called...

Hi, My computer is having several bsod since quite a long time. But i'm really tired of trying to solve it myself. So I post. My computer configuration : OS : Windows 10 family 64-bits CPU : Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.40GHz RAM : 8,00 Go Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz Graphics : SyncMaster...

So I'm an avid Windows Debugger user, I'm on build 1151 (Version 10.0.10586, or as winver.exe likes to say 10586.14) I downloaded the Win 64 symbols from Microsoft, and set my _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable to the normal shtick "SRV*H:\Symbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols"...

If the upgrade to the latest version of Windows 10 failed for you, here's how to install it anyway. read more Continue reading...

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While we work on rounding out our ES6/ES2015 support, the Chakra team is already looking ahead to ES2016 and, especially, to Link Removed. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Async Functions in Microsoft Edge as an experimental feature, available to preview starting in Link...

How to use the MS EDGE browzer Had to ditch IE 11 of win10 as the "Script Error" drove me crazy, & cannot get rid of it. Trying to use EDGE browser, not user friendly. I imported my favourites from IE but the folders I had in there will not open in Edge. How to make Edge open in my GMail...

My office pals are constantly creating lenghy file names and folders that surpass windows limits, which is causing problems when I perform or restore backups. Is there a way to just stop windows from letting a user write or copy a file which exceeds the limits imposed by the OS itself?. I´ve...

Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Announced at Build 2015, the Moblize.NET bridge is free and directly integrates into...