Windows 10: I know what I'm doing

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Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

d0s posted:

A cool thing in windows 10 is how it tells you to "tap" everything regardless if you're using a touchscreen or not. You'd think they'd be able to detect if you actually have a touchscreen or not and dynamically change the wording based on that but I guess that's too advanced for the bangladesh programmer sweatshop this thing came from. Maybe it's because I went straight to 10 from 7 but I'm finding this OS really lovely from a UI standpoint, though under the hood it seems like a lot has changed for the better.

I swear I'm not an Apple fanboy and they're not perfect but MS really needs to start stealing from them some more

My Win10 desktop

My Macbook Pro

ribbons

The click vs tap thing was in Windows 8 as well. Also, File Explorer is so much better than Finder. Finder is bad software, and the ribbon actually good. Plus you know you can collapse it, right?

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 07:58

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

ThermoPhysical posted:

Anyone know of a good app that can let you read Word files (besides..you know...Word)? The normal Word app sucks at letting me enlarge text on my screen and whatnot.

I don't get it. What's wrong with the zoom slider in the lower right?

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 15:35

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

ThermoPhysical posted:

I don't have Office 365 and I can't actually edit with it.

I guess this question should have started out with understanding what version of Office you have. For example, I have Office 2013 (Home & Business edition) and I do have a zoom slider. Word Online, which is free, also has a zoom button in the lower right, but not as a slider.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2015 17:58

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Wrath of the Bitch King posted:

I'm not really sure what they were thinking with Edge. Like, I want to use it and it has some neat features, and the speed seems noticeably improved from IE 10/11.

At the same time it doesn't support any extensions, which renders it unusable for me.

It also looks like my weird domain issues aren't an isolated occurrence.

What a weird thing to say.

Were you using any extensions in IE? Most people who use IE were not using Adblock's IE plugin, or intentionally using any other plugin I suspect. So restated, you're saying "huh, they built this new default browser which has some neat features and is noticeably faster than the old default browser but didn't ship with a replacement for barely used functionality... why the heck did they bother making it at all?? What were they thinking????" How about because it has some neat features? How about because it's noticeably faster? Why did the release have to be gated on MORE stuff?

Not to mention can update it more frequently now that they've changed release models and won't be locked into the requirements of ancient legacy compatibility.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2015 18:34

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

smoobles posted:

Will a new CPU invalidate my Windows 10 license or is that just motherboards?

Nobody knows the exact algorithm that it uses to generate the hardware id, so the only possible answers to this question are personal anecdotes. Would an answer either way change what you plan to do?

# ¿ Aug 16, 2015 22:18

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Open smart screen settings and dial it down to the middle option:

# ¿ Aug 17, 2015 02:43

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Combat Pretzel posted:

Eh, this automatic update poo poo is annoying as gently caress. Can't just let the computer idle overnight with tons of apps open to pick up where you left, because Windows decides to reboot because it saw the box idle for hours.

Why didn't you tell it to not auto reboot.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

So my computer just decided to just loving freeze every 5 minutes after logging in and I dont know what can be causing it but a safe bet is windows 10

Why not just find out for sure instead of guessing

# ¿ Aug 22, 2015 16:49

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

I mean if you're not at your computer for a week I guess that could be a problem but it's not like it's going to auto reboot while youre working on stuff.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2015 21:51

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Yeah, that's why I tell it to not reboot until next Tuesday. I mean I guess it would be nice to have an infinite delay but in practice it's just not that big of a deal.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2015 22:11

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Repo Man posted:

The default photo viewer in 10 annoyed me, so I changed it back to Windows Photo Viewer. But I've run into an annoyance - when I plugged my camera in to my computer, all seemed normal. But when I opened a photo to view it, I no longer have the option to scroll through the photos on my camera. You have to open one, then close it, then open another, having to return to the thumbnails each time. Has anyone else run into this? It works normally with any photos in a folder on my hard drive(s).

What happens when you hit left/right arrow in the app or on your keyboard or use your mouse's scroll wheel?

ilkhan posted:

Welcome to MS software engineering. How they managed to gently caress up enough to replace the win7 picture viewer with the pictures app is a complete mystery to me.

It does play animated gifs now tho

# ¿ Aug 23, 2015 02:50

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

KillHour posted:

Delete this folder.

But don't say I didn't warn you.

KillHour posted:

It was literally an "Everyone is telling me it can't be done. I must do it." type thing. I ended up reinstalling Windows to get them back (which isn't as bad as it sounds - you can install Windows 10 over an existing install, keeping your programs and settings). Honestly, I just didn't like the fact that there's no sane way to uninstall them. I look at all the Bing Finance and XBox app poo poo the same way I look at 60 day Symantec trials and Wild Tangent bloatware that comes on OEM PCs. I have exactly 0 desire to ever be part of Microsoft's ecosystem, and I don't like them presuming that I'm okay with any of it.

Edit: Cortana uses 37MB of memory. This is outrageous!

I don't really consider "Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Windows.Cortana | Remove-AppxPackage" to be that insane. It's pretty cool that they shipped cmdlets for appx package management, actually. E: maybe just "Remove-AppxPackage Microsoft.Windows.Cortana" but I dont want to test it

It's wrong to consider Bing Finance or whatever on the same level as rootkits, because one is uninstallable by right click => uninstall, and the other is a rootkit.

# ¿ Aug 27, 2015 16:27

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

KillHour posted:

You can't uninstall Cortana that way. Give it a shot - Windows just throws an error at you saying it needs it. Same with edge.

Huh, you are right. Irritating. A bit of research indicates it might be possible with dism, but if so I don't know how!

wolrah posted:

Hey, look at that.

They're fixing the inconsistent context menu appearances.

THAT wasn't the problem context menu. It's getting worse :ughh:

Also, Win+X / Right Clicking the start icon is yet another context menu style, although perhaps it's just the system dark theme of the standard one, not sure.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2015 02:18

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Shumagorath posted:

No matter what I set as my lock screen image and app info I get the same default image and zero information. I had the image synced via my MS account if that makes any difference.

The lock screen and the login screen are two different screens. I'm not aware of any non-hack ways to customize the login screen.

Jan posted:

Ah, thanks. Now that you mention it, it was System that was growing quickly, not UE4. Back when this happened, I'd tried searching for "Windows 10 RAM compression", but all I could find was a reddit thread that was adamant that MS wouldn't use memory compression because it's inefficient. I wonder if there's a way to disable this? I certainly don't care for the current implementation which knocks out tabs and Visual Studio nilly willy.

This is only on in the recent insider previews. If you're not running the insider previews then that isn't your problem.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2015 16:02

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

FYI, glass8 has now been officially updated with Windows 10 support. No more shady russian hacks required.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2015 01:02

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

101 posted:

Isn't this the one that adds a really annoying watermark to the bottom right with no reliable way to get rid of it?

Only if you don't pay for it.....

# ¿ Aug 30, 2015 06:27

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Sir Unimaginative posted:

Unless you want to build the recovery/system/EFI protective partition on the SSD by yourself...

Which is not that big of a deal. You should be able to use bcdedit to clone your existing config. Or maybe just disconnect the drives and boot to the recovery partition and let it automatically figure it out. Probably don't need to reinstall.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 00:20

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

ThermoPhysical posted:

How would I get to the Recovery Partition in 10?

Either boot to your installation usb stick, or click on Setting -> Update & Security -> Recovery, then do the "Advanced startup" thing. Once youre in there, you can probably either use the GUI to restore bootability or open a command prompt and run bcdboot. You may be able to use bcdedit to clone your current config to another partition, but I'm not sure how to do that off the top of my head. Heck, if you're able to disconnect the drive with the boot config, you may be able to run bcdboot without needing to get into the recovery environment.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 02:40

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Lowtechs posted:

The source of this is http://www.theinquirer.net and based upon a readers tip. They could have set up a machine and confirm this but hey it is theinquirer.net so who knows.

Yeah and also it could be totally overblown http://www.windowscentral.com/bad-it-admins-reveal-windows-10-downloads-your-pc

# ¿ Sep 12, 2015 04:24

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Based on 10 seconds of looking at process explorer while clicking the start menu, it's ShellExperienceHost.exe. But that may just be a companion service to explorer. But I'd try killing that guy next time start doesn't work and see.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2015 05:42

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Sir Unimaginative posted:

I just realized something:

What the hell ever happened to OneGet?

It shipped but is entirely unloved. You can still use it for chocolatey packages though. For example this does what you think:

code:

find-package -Provider chocolatey 7zip
(yes for the prompts)
install-package 7zip

# ¿ Sep 28, 2015 16:44

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Krailor posted:

I've got a slightly different sleep issue. My monitor goes to sleep after 10 min of inactivity no matter what. I've gone though the Power Plan, Power & Sleep options, Advance Power Settings and changed everything to never sleep or turn off the monitor and it's still turning off after 10 min.

I'm on 10547 but the issue was also affecting me on the last build as well.

Something else, not Windows, could be turning it off manually.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2015 00:45

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

MikusR posted:

From the pictures they showed it the clipboard has at most a third of battery capacity and cant' charge without the keyboard. As for removing the gpu either it switches to intel gpu or simply crashes the game. Think Nvidia optimus.

The latching mechanism is electronic, so I wonder if it'll simply not let you undock if a game is using the GPU.

# ¿ Oct 6, 2015 21:39

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

emanresu tnuocca posted:

Anyone figured out why Windows 10 stupidly sets random folders to be read-only thus preventing random programs from working correctly?

Gonna bet this is UAC related but for my experience UAC usually only does this s- to the default program files location, having actually go to other drives and set folders which I created as read-only all of sudden is really stupid and annoying.

I feel pretty comfortable stating that Windows is not stupidly setting random folders read only. But you might get a more helpful response if you shared more information.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2015 14:47

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

It's amazing how much more polished 10565 feels with the colored title bars. Much better.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2015 14:55

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Duo posted:

Also my favorite part was when I tried to find the manual download from MS and it told me I needed to view the page in Explorer 6 or later. So I thought alright, that means I should load up Edge, the new official microsoft browser right?

You have to load the old IE they kept to actually view it since their new browser can't handle it

Why would this surprise you? They specifically told you to use IE and you're surprised that you have to use IE?

# ¿ Oct 24, 2015 23:20

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

dud root posted:

I do agree however I shudder at the thought of sheer number of small businesses (5-20 people for arguments sake) with no domain, no centralised IT, no WSUS and a shitload of critical specialised software so fragile it only currently runs on 4 out of 5 working days. Clicking next will mean a lot of downtime for family owned business

Yeah but if that's actually the situation then it was only ever a matter of time until they clicked next on a convincing pop up and took down the business anyway.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2015 01:11

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

terre packet posted:

Is there a way to tell my monitor to go to sleep immediately in Windows 10?

Another option, you can try this program that I made like 7 years ago and havent touched since, but I just downloaded it and tested it and seems to work: TurnOffMonitor.exe

# ¿ Nov 6, 2015 03:24

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Does anyone have any insight or ideas on the following?

None of my store apps start (including the store app) after the November update to 10586.3 (however, my memory is fuzzy and it's possible they worked just after the update completed but failed after a later reboot). An example, I click on the Weather app pinned to my taskbar:

In the event log, there are 4 errors in rapid succession (in order of occurrence):

Error; Source: DistributedCOM, Event ID: 10001 posted:

Unable to start a DCOM Server: App as Unavailable/Unavailable. The error:
"5"
Happened while starting this command:
"C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.BingWeather_4.7.104.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Microsoft.Msn.Weather.exe" -ServerName:App.AppX2m6wj6jceb8yq7ppx1b3drf7yy51ha6f.mca

Error; Source: AppModel-Runtime, Event ID: 57 posted:

Failed with 2147942405 to retrieve the trust state of the package Microsoft.NET.Native.Runtime.1.1_1.1.23406.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe folder.

Error; Source: AppModel-Runtime, Event ID: 61 posted:

0x5: Cannot create the process for package Microsoft.BingWeather_4.7.104.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe because an error was encountered while performing the integrity check. Access is denied.

Source: Apps, Event ID: 5973 posted:

Activation of app Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App failed with error: Access is denied. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.

And here's the story in that log (in order of occurrence):

Information; Source: Apps, Event ID: 1621 posted:

Activation of app Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App attempted. Execution state: Attempted activation of the app, 0, The operation completed successfully..

Error; Source: Apps, Event ID: 5990 posted:

Activation via contract helper of the app Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App for the Windows.Launch contract failed with Access is denied..

Error; Source: Apps, Event ID: 5961 posted:

Activation of the app Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App for the Windows.Launch contract failed with error: Access is denied..

Error; Source: Apps, Event ID: 5985 posted:

ActivateApplicationForContractByAppIdAsUserWithHost of the app Microsoft.BingWeather_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App for the Windows.Launch contract failed with Access is denied..

Things I have tried:

Googling. Some of these errors have no hits.
Rebooting.
Running the powershell command(s) to re-register the default apps & reboot: caused the app names in the start menu to be replaced with "@{package name}" labels.
Running the dism command(s) to fix whatever its supposed to: nothing.
Running sfc /scannow: nothing.
Running wsreset.exe: nothing.
Running procmon to see if I could figure out what the file, folder, or registry key had the permission problem: nothing.
Giving "All Application Packages" permission to: "%localappdata%\packages", "C:", "%programfiles%\WindowsApps" and "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage" per advice from random google hits: nothing.
Ran this troubleshooter: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/run-the-troubleshooter-for-windows-apps nothing.

I'm out of ideas. I'm not going to do a Reset this machine again, because I have too much stuff installed, so it's either figure out a fix or don't run store apps.

Factor Mystic fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Nov 14, 2015

# ¿ Nov 14, 2015 19:58

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

WorkingStiff posted:

Are you using a local account or a microsoft account? If you create a local account and select �Sign in to just this app instead� when it prompts for your MS credentials will it run correctly?

It's a local account. The apps crash immediately, like blink and they're gone. No opportunity to sign in to the app. I created a new local account, and apps also do not work there. However there is a message box that says "You'll need a new app to open this ms-windows-store".

E: Mail, Calendar, and Edge work, but no other store apps.

Factor Mystic fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Nov 14, 2015

# ¿ Nov 14, 2015 22:34

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

WorkingStiff posted:

Have you tried this?

Yep that was one of my google hits & powershell command(s). Same error as that guy for option #2 and lots of errors and no positive result for option #3.

Example error is

quote:

Add-AppxPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CF9, Install failed. Please contact your software vendor.
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x80073CF9)
Rejecting a request to register from AppXManifest.xml because the manifest is not in the package root.
NOTE: For additional information, look for [ActivityId] 1f9ad076-1f0b-0000-0db7-9b1f0b1fd101 in the Event Log or use
the command line Get-AppxLog -ActivityID 1f9ad076-1f0b-0000-0db7-9b1f0b1fd101

And that AppxLog is

code:

Time                      ID           Message
----                      --           -------
11/14/2015 10:01:12 PM    301          The calling process is powershell.exe
11/14/2015 10:01:12 PM    603          Started deployment Register operation on a package with main parameter:
                                       AppXManifest.xml and Options: 0. See
                                       [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160[/url] for help diagnosing app
                                       deployment issues.
11/14/2015 10:01:12 PM    709          Rejecting a request to register from AppXManifest.xml because the manifest is
                                       not in the package root.
11/14/2015 10:01:12 PM    404          AppX Deployment operation failed for package  with error 0x80070057. The
                                       specific error text for this failure is: Rejecting a request to register from
                                       AppXManifest.xml because the manifest is not in the package root.

Another error log is slightly more interesting:

code:

Time                      ID           Message
----                      --           -------
11/14/2015 10:01:09 PM    301          The calling process is powershell.exe
11/14/2015 10:01:09 PM    603          Started deployment Register operation on a package with main parameter:
                                       AppXManifest.xml and Options: 0. See
                                       [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160[/url] for help diagnosing app
                                       deployment issues.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    10002        Creating Resiliency File C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\5346cbe8
                                       -24c8-4ca5-9af1-862d10901995_S-1-5-21-3770899244-1163743121-2338960439-1001_64.r
                                       slc for Register Operation on Package
                                       Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    607          Deployment Register operation on package
                                       Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe has been de-queued and is
                                       running for user [me].
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    613          Adding uri to the list of Uris: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging
                                       _1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\AppXManifest.xml.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    10000        About to service package Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe.
                                       Setting the package state to disabled returned with 0x0.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    317          C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\
                                       AppxManifest.xml(151,24): warning: The 'windows.aboveLockScreen' extension
                                       category in the Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe package is
                                       unrecognized.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    317          C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\
                                       AppxManifest.xml(155,24): warning: The 'windows.voipCall' extension category in
                                       the Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe package is unrecognized.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    317          C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\
                                       AppxManifest.xml(151,24): warning: The 'windows.aboveLockScreen' extension
                                       category in the Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe package is
                                       unrecognized.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    317          C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\
                                       AppxManifest.xml(155,24): warning: The 'windows.voipCall' extension category in
                                       the Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe package is unrecognized.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    827          Capability parsing started for the package
                                       Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    5502         Merge Failure : error 0x80070003 : Cannot register the
                                       Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe package because there was a
                                       merge failure with the following file: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Me
                                       ssaging_1.11.3005.0_neutral_split.scale-100_8wekyb3d8bbwe\resources.pri
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    303          error 0x80070003: While preparing to process the request, the system failed to
                                       register the windows.MRT extension due to the following error: The system
                                       cannot find the path specified.
                                       .
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    300          error 0x80070003: Cannot register the Microsoft.Messaging_8wekyb3d8bbwe package
                                       due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified.
                                       .
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    605          The last successful state reached was ResolvedDeferredRegistrations. Failure
                                       occurred before reaching the next state RegistrationChanged.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    10001        Finished servicing package Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe.
                                       Setting the package state to enabled returned with 0x0.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    401          Deployment Register operation with target volume C: on Package
                                       Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe from:  (AppXManifest.xml)
                                       failed with error 0x80073CF6. See [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160[/url]
                                       for help diagnosing app deployment issues.
11/14/2015 10:01:10 PM    404          AppX Deployment operation failed for package
                                       Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe with error 0x80073CF6. The
                                       specific error text for this failure is: Merge Failure : error 0x80070003 :
                                       Cannot register the Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe package
                                       because there was a merge failure with the following file: C:\Program Files\Wind
                                       owsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_neutral_split.scale-100_8wekyb3d8bbwe\re
                                       sources.pri

The Event Viewer log for Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeploymentServer has a record of this error but the message is basically the same:

quote:

Merge Failure : error 0x80070003 : Cannot register the Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe package because there was a merge failure with the following file: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_neutral_split.scale-100_8wekyb3d8bbwe\resources.pri

quote:

error 0x80070003: While preparing to process the request, the system failed to register the windows.MRT extension due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified.
.

quote:

error 0x80070003: Cannot register the Microsoft.Messaging_8wekyb3d8bbwe package due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified.
.

The errors appear to be right; there is no "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_neutral_split.scale-100_8wekyb3d8bbwe\resources.pri" file that I can see... the last folder there doesn't exist. Two other similar folders for Microsoft.Messaging do but with different names: "Microsoft.Messaging_1.10.22012.0_neutral_split.scale-150_8wekyb3d8bbwe" and "Microsoft.Messaging_1.11.3005.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe".

Factor Mystic fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Nov 15, 2015

# ¿ Nov 15, 2015 04:01

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

I am motivated to figure out a solution especially in light of all the copy paste cargo cult "solutions" I'm finding online. Really irritating.

I looked in my Windows.Old, but not all the apps I currently have are in there. Taking the Weather or Messaging app for example, not there.

However:

I do have a disk image from a few days ago. Noticing that there are multiple folders per app, I removed all the Bing Weather ones and copied them wholesale from my backup. Now Bing Weather works. This is interesting. It looks like perhaps the current situation is that for some of the apps, some of the app folders are missing. Like why is only ONE of the Microsoft.Messaging folders there if it needs 3? Not sure. If I can't copy them out of a backup, I can probably copy them from a VM.

This still leaves open the question of why any of it happened at all.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2015 04:33

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Glad they resolved it so quickly but my sweet Jesus, why do they not just explain these things from the outset?

Lawyers. Seriously.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2015 17:31

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

wormil posted:

My app store hasn't worked in months, apps don't work either, and other stuff like file search, the start menu, icons, just stop and start working at random. Apps don't even show up properly on the menu. Is there some kind of fix for this stuff? A reliable guide? I googled and tried some things but it f'd s- up really bad and I had to do a system restore.

This recently happened to me but I pressed paused on the diagnostics. Hit the ? icon next to my post here to see what you can try (or don't bother trying because it doesn't work).

# ¿ Dec 17, 2015 20:51

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Happy_Misanthrope posted:

There have been bigger disasters (WinME, Vista) from the start, but I have to agree that I've never seen so much random behavior with an MS OS than Win10. I've still got bizarre settings panel and search behavior, this is a clean install. Again, "create a new profile" is ridiculously commonplace as a solution, it's just so f'ing fragile.

The real fix is probably simple. Unfortunately anyone's ability to do diagnostics is limited with the new app system. So that means the only sure solutions are sledgehammers.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2015 21:10

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

el_caballo posted:

Got nothing but freezes on the blue Win10 symbol or "Invalid partition table."

You may be experiencing hardware failure

# ¿ Dec 22, 2015 18:22

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Jeoh posted:

wormil posted:
My app store hasn't worked in months, apps don't work either, and other stuff like file search, the start menu, icons, just stop and start working at random. Apps don't even show up properly on the menu. Is there some kind of fix for this stuff? A reliable guide? I googled and tried some things but it f'd s- up really bad and I had to do a system restore.

For me I nuked my profile and created a new one. Not ideal but it worked. I've opened a case about this with MS a while ago, I'll let you know how it goes.

Did you ever get an update on this Jeoh? I just did an in-place reinstall and it's all still busted. The one thing it fixed was the app names in the start menu now show up (rather than resource id's or w/e) but they still don't actually work.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2016 21:37

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Jeoh posted:

Nope, they're basically saying the same thing: Recreate the profile.

What do you mean? Would this give different results than creating a new user profile? Because I did that already and it fixed nothing.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2016 23:40

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Or winver.exe, the app that exists to tell you what version of windows you're running.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 19:29

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Combat Pretzel posted:

Also, Microsoft needs to finally enable WinRT apps outside the stupid WinStore sandbox. Maybe then that API finally gains some traction.

What are you talking about? This is already possible. You don't need to be a store app to use the new APIs.

biznatchio posted:

Microsoft just needs to stop trying to make the Windows Store happen entirely. It's a cesspool.

Just don't use it then? �\_(ツ)_/�

# ¿ Feb 12, 2016 17:49

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 07:58

Factor Mystic: Mar 20, 2006; Baby's First Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Zero VGS posted:

Anyone have any insight to fixing "kernel_security_check_failure" blue screens in Windows 10? Googling I found some people suggesting it was due to overclocking so I removed my overclock and it still happens every couple days, some people say it's NVidia drivers but I have AMD, and another suggestion was viruses but I have a pretty much stock installation and Windows Defender doesn't see an issue.

See if BlueScreenView http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html can tell you which driver.

Ur Getting Fatter posted:

Ever since a few updates ago (I'm honestly not even sure if it was an update that triggered it) I've been having this problem where Explorer will freeze for about 20 seconds whenever I open a folder (even within other programs).

I can open other Explorer windows while that one is frozen (although they might also freeze).

After 20 seconds or so, Explorer resumes and I can use the window normally. I can even then jump to different folders from that window without it freezing, so it seems like the problem is with launching the process itself.

Any ideas as to how to fix this?

I have also seen something like this, manifests as 100% cpu usage for about that time period, and may possibly be due to thumbnail generation.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2016 18:40

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