After upgrading Windows 8 Enterprise to Windows 8.1 Enterprise (RTM), the store app won’t launch anymore, hanging on the splash screen forever. Is there a trick to reset the store app or something? Restarting or killing the app didn’t work. There are no error messages in the event logs (TWinUI/Operational etc.). Solution: Found this on…
I purchased Windows 8 online from Microsoft a while ago. Today Windows 8.1 was released as a free update to Windows 8 users over the Windows Store. I was planning to do a fresh install of Windows 8.1 to have a clean system again and UEFI support because I got new hardware since the Windows…
I cloned my windows 7 installation on c: to external hard drive. I applied usb patch using pwboot and i could successfully boot into windows. But My problem is even though i am booting in to external hd the file reference and system path is pointing to c: on my internal hard disk. If i…
I’ve googled and googled and googled, but I can’t find a decent FREE windows video editor. Does anybody know one? Solution: For basic editing there is Virtualdub. For effects, I’d go with ZS4 or Jahshaka (the latter is my preference).
When installing apps that are built around Windows Installer, it would appear that it often uses my external usb hard disk (when it’s connected) as the temp location while it expands and installs the application (creates a folder off the root with a guid name). Is there anyway to change this so it always defaults…
I’ve ripped music files from my CD but they were in .wma format and cannot play on my Android phone. So that I need to re-rip them into .mp3 files. But the ripped button is disabled in Windows Media Player and the status of the file reads Ripped tolibrary How can I force a re-rip/rip…
I’m using latest Windows 10. I have dual monitors and am working on software development. I move Visual Studio to second monitor to work on it. When I lock wndows and leave computer and go somewhere and come back after 20-30 min both laptop and second external monitor is black and I need to enter…
I know that RAM disks are fast, faster than any disk, but they lose their contents on a shutdown of the operating system. The capacity is limited to the RAM. Is there a useful implementation on a new 64-bit Windows 2008 server? Solution: I am not sure about using a RAM disk for speed advantages,…
Where are the images from Windows Spotlight coming from? Where are they being saved on my system? Is there any way for me to point this at my own source of images? Solution: The pictures are located at: C:Users{your_name}AppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager_cw5n1h2txyewyLocalStateAssets And they will look like this: Renaming these to .JPG will reveal it as a…
On Windows 10 1809, I have enabled the in-built SSH server, and have configured it. On another machine, I have used WinSCP and PuTTy generator to generate an authentication key. I copied the public key portion and appended that to the .sshauthorized_keys file of my SSH server user. I fixed file permissions as required, to…
