libraries

Hello. I helped a family member do a Windows Refresh on Windows 8.1, and thousands of her personal files have been removed. According to Microsoft, "you can refresh your PC without deleting any of your personal files or changing your settings." This was not the case for her. I have searched...

I read this in the online edition of my local newspaper. I don't know what was expected by the woman who reported the story to the press but if she was looking for sympathy - the comments from readers appended to the story sum it all up nicely and as the comedy rather made my day I thought I'd...

Our domain is at the Windows Server 2008 R2 Forest level. Our servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows 2012 R2 Standard Our workstations are running a mix of operating systems including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. I have created a scheduled task in Group...

XAML Standard We are pleased to announce XAML Standard, which is a standards-based effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms. XAML Standard is a specification that defines a standard XAML vocabulary. With that vocabulary, frameworks that...

Whenever I download photos off my camera, they go to "libraries" "documents", "my documents" - I want them to go to my C: drive and not to the libraries path. How do I change that? Thanks.

Hi, Im unsure where this post would come under so Im sorry if its in the wrong category. I have recently upgraded to Win 10 from 7 and would like to arrange my music library the same way as it was in Win 7. I want it in tiles (where all the artists are in tiles and when you click on the...

Without getting too deep into the various features of libraries, I'd like to know their basic purpose. I have found them just getting in my way, but I'm afraid that deleting items in them will actually delete the same items where they really belong, if that makes any sense.

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...

After a recent update, my Star Favorites Folder no longer opens expanded the way it used to. I have to manually expand it every single time I access it now. I've googled and searched Microsoft Help and do not find any solutions for this specific problem. I also can't seem to add this to the...

Developers targeting Windows 10 IoT Core can use a programming language of their choice. Today, this includes C#, C++, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Link Removed and Node.js, but we’re not stopping there. Arduino Wiring is the latest addition to IoT Core. Arduino is one of the most popular...

Today, we’re happy to announce the release of the Link Removed tool as part of the Windows Bridge for iOS. To recap, the Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that allows you to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and...

So when I rebooted my computer when I woke up this morning, some of my videos in my videos library changed thumbnails. Is it normal for my videos to do this or no?

Link Removed is all about making it as easy as possible to build apps for Windows. The online tool helps you build apps with no coding required, so you can either start your project there and extend it in Visual Studio, or you can create and build the app completely in the tool. Today, we want...

The Microsoft Visio 2016 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the latest documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools that you need to develop custom solutions for Visio 2016. Link Removed

Hello, When i use feature Backup of Windows 10, i see in Option "Back Up These Folders" some libraries as default. I know that i can add or remove libraries or i can exclude Folders. But, happens that, when i leave the backup and days ago i come to do another backup, it appears again with the...

Hello, I upload photos to this APP from the default Pictures Library. Now, i change in Settings the new library that i want to upload photos, and i delete the old one Pictures Library. How i delete the whole photos and upload from the new library? Because at this moment i open the APP and he is...

Just today I noticed that the preview for images in my libraries (png, jpg, gif, etc files) is different from what it was before. When images were taking a while to load, the preview would be a framed image of mountain and sun or something like that, but now this is what I see: Link Removed I...

This is a Technical Preview for Visual C++ Build Tools 2015, which provides the essential tools for building C++ applications and libraries targeting Windows desktop. Link Removed

This is a Technical Preview for Visual C++ Build Tools 2015, which provides the essential tools for building C++ applications and libraries targeting Windows desktop. Link Removed

This is a Technical Preview for Visual C++ Build Tools 2015, which provides the essential tools for building C++ applications and libraries targeting Windows desktop. Link Removed