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So my laptop was recently attacked by malwares. I tried removing them using windows defender and I think they got removed. But afterwards I am suffering from following problems: 1. Windows apps like Groove music, default video player of windows, calculator etc. have all just...

Hi I just started trying to use Windows 10 screen capture. Windows Key + G, and push the red button. It works for capturing the video from both games and the internet, but I'm not getting sound on either one. Like most Windows apps it's very light on settings, I'm not finding any preferences...

On Windows desktops, if something went wrong, your first instinct for years may have been to open up the Event Viewer and see if anything red or yellow shows up. Those alerts are saved ETW events, emitted by the system when errors occurred. On other Windows devices though, it’s been a bit harder...

In the first installment of this blog series we looked at the various options at your disposal to store your app’s local data. In this post we will be looking at how that local data can be shared, both between apps and users. When an app is installed, the system creates a per-user app data...

Hi My friend called and his apps and start button don't work. I had him run SFC /scannow and that didn't find anything. The next solution was to reinstall all the apps. He is trying to do this through the command prompt by running. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage...

Users today are mobile, transitioning from one device to the next throughout the day. Increasingly, these same users expect (or even demand) to take their data with them. Fortunately for us, roaming app data makes this a reality. Today, we kick off a two-post series that explores how to use...

To save confusion, I'm going to refer to the two programs as X and Y. When I have program X running, it all works fine and I can open any program alongside it. However, if I try and open program Y while X is running, X crashes without warning or an error message and Y opens up as normal. I've...

I have an inventory spreadsheet that is excel based and written in with VBA that want to make a standalone executable. The spreadsheet uses userforms for input and then transfers the input data to a diaphragm/floor plan, indicating what is in what room. I would like suggestions on what...

Requirements: Read aloud words from a PDF file Shows the PDF file and highlights the words as it reads On The Pdf Itself Free Works on Windows 8.1 What I have tried I've tried Adobe Reader Read Out Loud. I heard nothing, and as far as I can tell, the program does not highlight words as it...

The Windows Bridge for iOS is a Microsoft open-source project that provides an Objective-C development environment for Visual Studio and support for iOS APIs. The bridge makes it easy for iOS developers to make great Windows apps while reusing much of their existing Objective-C code and iOS...

Tonight, November 15/15, I was upset & angry that the video ad being constantly run whilst using Windows app's was a video ad by Air Canada promoting "PARIS AWAITS. LET US TAKE YOU THERE". Why the heck was this allowed to run? Why didn't MS block it from running? In view of the horrific...

Notifications Visualizer is a Link Removed that helps developers design Link Removed. The app provides instant visual previews of your tile while editing, similar to Visual Studio’s XAML editor/design view. The app also checks for errors, ensuring you create a valid tile payload. Below is a...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, and the deployment and performance profiling of Windows apps on computers...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2012 enables remote debugging, remote testing, and performance unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, deployment, and performance profiling of Windows apps to...

I'm trying to change the shortcut keys in the Movies & TV app, so that I can get into and out of Full Screen easily. The only way I figured out how to do that for now, is pressing on the button down there. I want to use like Esc to go out of full screen, pressing twice on the video to move into...

I need an audio cd burning app that takes audio from videos and audios, supports cd-text, saving project, and normalization and burns audio cd. Not NCH Express Burn app.

People app and Music preview app not opening on this build is there any fixes out there yet? The people app opens then closes in about 2 seconds. the Music preview app dose nothing at all when clicked on. Tried un-pinning and re-pinning to start but just the same. If these apps don't work...

At Build 2015, Link Removedprovided a great introduction to the Universal Windows Platform and several of the Windows 10 features developers can enable. With over 2,500 new platform features for your app to leverage, the Universal Windows Platform makes it easier to design, develop, debug and...

Hi I have to say I'm pretty happy with the way that build 10074 is working. I haven't had issues with my sound and Cortana seems to be working pretty reliably. Some things don't load at startup or coming out of sleep mode some time. But there is one thing that's not, and that's the right...

Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2015 RC enables remote debugging, remote testing, and unit testing on computers that don't have Visual Studio installed. This set of tools also enables the installation of a developer license, and the deployment and performance profiling of Windows apps on...