Saturday, July 18, 2015

Windows 10: Build 10240: A few comments...

First of all, here's my desktop. Please note that you don't see any arrows on my desktop shortcuts. Here's what gets rid of those for you...


And please also note that I have the "The Insider Hub" icon showing in the Taskbar. If yours doesn't, and you want it to, here's what to do:-
Go to "Settings" > "System" > "Apps and Features" and click/tap on "Manage Optional Features" and then click/tap on "Add a Feature" and this brings up a long list that you will need to scroll down through until you come to the item "Insider Hub". Click/tap on it to display a button "Install", and click/tap that. This should re-install it for you if it's missing. Now, if you get a pop-up with a long story about talking to your Administrator, or bringing a note from your mother, that means you need to clear the cache for the Windows Store App, and you do that by using "WSReset.exe". Type that into your search box in the "All Apps" page, and press Enter. This should clear that cache, and let you do your thing with re-installing Insider Hub. Clearing that Windows Store Cache also corrects the difficulty of not being able to download this latest Windows 10, Build 10240, in case you got referred to the error code 0x8024a105.

Please Note: If you have trouble getting the "WSReset.exe" to work, then open Windows Powershell in Admin Mode, and at the cursor type WSReset.exe /? and press enter. There's one space between the "exe" and the forward slash.



And of course, for your newest Windows 10, you want a really good anti-virus, because "Defender" gets a bad rating with the experts, but it's free, and you don't want to spend a lot of money right now.... So get the best "freebie" anti-virus for 2015 instead. This one...........



Bitdefender is a totally "hands off" operation. It requires no interference from its user to make it work normally. You can review its log files and clear those if you wish, but you don't need to worry about it updating itself or grabbing the bad guys, because it does all that better than others, including some that would cost you part of the grocery money.

And last but not least, you'll notice that there's no icon in my Taskbar for that new "Edge" browser Microsoft has been hyping lately. And you're probably wondering why. That's because I removed its icon from the Taskbar because it still doesn't show a complete and functioning text-editor in Google's "Blogger" where this blog resides, and I'm really disappointed about that, because it does have other features, like "Web Notes" that I'd really like to be able to demonstrate here, in an actual "working" situation. But I can't.  

And I hope that Microsoft and Google can resolve their differences fairly soon, and stop playing games with one another at the user's expense. It's us unwashed masses who are keeping both Microsoft and Google fat and happy, and we don't enjoy having the bat shoved you-know-where because you kids can't get along. So shame on you both! You should know better by now.

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