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Vitess operators and cloud teams must treat their backups like a live attack surface: a recently disclosed vulnerability shows that anyone with read/write access to backup storage can weaponize manifest metadata to execute arbitrary commands during restore and gain unauthorized access to...

Pushbullet showed a simple, elegant answer to a very common modern annoyance: why keep picking up your phone when your PC can do the job? For years it acted as the lightweight “glue” between Android and Windows — mirroring notifications, pushing links, sharing files, and letting you send SMS...

For a handful of hours this week a small but important piece of the Edge browsing experience vanished for some users: uBlock Origin — the widely trusted, open‑source content blocker used by millions — was effectively replaced by uBlock Origin Lite in Microsoft Edge after an accidental upload and...

Zoom’s lightweight “Zoom for Chrome” listing on FileHippo — identified as version 5.0.1‑4301.0407 and updated on May 15, 2025 — has re-emerged across several third‑party download portals as a compact alternative to the full Zoom desktop client, pitched for fast meeting joins and Google Calendar...

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are no longer just browsers—they’re sprawling platforms where AI, privacy controls, and even gaming features are being used as battlegrounds to win users’ attention and loyalty. Background / Overview The modern browser fight is about more than page-load times and...

Updating Chrome from the command line with Winget on Windows 11 turns a repetitive, GUI-driven maintenance task into a single, scriptable operation—saving time for power users and administrators while giving clear, auditable control over browser updates. The how-to that follows summarizes the...

In continuation of our commitment to reduce fragmentation of the web for all developers, and to create better web compatibility for our customers, we plan to support the Declarative Net Request API and other changes proposed as part of Manifest V3. The decision to embrace Manifest V3 changes is...

For a long time, desktop PC users have been able to configure Win32 apps to start at startup or user log-in. This has also been possible for Desktop Bridge apps since the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (v10.0.14393.0). We’ve now extended this feature to allow regular Universal Windows Apps to...

In today’s post, we are covering another step you can take on your journey across the Desktop Bridge: specifically migrating business logic to Windows Runtime Components, aka WinRT Components. Previously, Windows only supported calling OS provided WinRT components from Win32 applications. Any...

As we continue to close the gap between Win32 and Universal Windows Apps, one of the features we’ve recently introduced is the ability to activate a UWA from a command line and pass the app arbitrary command-line arguments. This is available to Insiders from build 16226. This feature builds on...

The Windows 10 Creators Update adds out-of-process (OOP) COM and OLE support for apps on the Desktop Bridge – a.k.a Packaged COM. Historically, Win32 apps would create COM extensions that other applications could use. For example, Microsoft Excel exposes its Excel.Application object so...

With last summer’s release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and the announcement of the Windows Store supporting apps built with the Desktop Bridge technology, we want to share more details and sample code on how to further enhance and extend your PC software on Windows 10. In addition to...

Hi, My Windows updated automatically on night of Oct 11th. From the next day, when I started my laptop, most of the applications stopped running and gave me this error: The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log...

Recently my computer has been freezing up frequently. I have made sure it's not a heat issue or a driver issue. I used MTB to determine what the source of the problem was. I found out that the error, Description: Activation context generation failed for...

AllJoyn is a technology that enables IoT devices and applications to discover and interact with each other. Since AllJoyn is built into Windows 10 and the Windows 10 SDK, it's easy to take advantage of AllJoyn using the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Link Removed This blog post will help...

Today's Visual Studio extension is kind of simple, and the source isn't currently available, but it's one of those that can really have you some time (and hair)... Can Bilgin, building on the work of Link Removed, has released a Visual Studio 2015 extension that makes it click-easy to convert...

Are you build Visual Studio extensions? Will you do me a favor? Please consider your user's DPI. My primary machine runs at 3K (2880x1620) and since my eyes are old, the DPI is at 200%. If you're not running a High DPI machine you may be wondering what's the problem? If you are, like Scott...

Hi I am using windwos7 on my dell laptop inspiron 5010, after starting it function erraticly as sometimes i am able to open I.Explr but most of the time it wont work and keeps on hanging.I am attaching log from evenviewer as follows , can anyone guide me to rectify please; - <Event xmlns="Link...

I am getting this error while installing .NET Framework 3.5 "0x800736cc - a component's file does not match the verification information present in the component manifest" Plz kindly hlp me to fix this out.

Every time I create a program with masm and use the CreateFile api it always fails unless I use read access rights. Even some downloaded programs file when they hit CreateFile on my computer. I can usually get around it by using xp compatibility mode and the CreateFile is redirected to...