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The successor to Microsoft Windows 8.1 which combines features from Windows 7 and 8.1, including touch-interface and restored Start Menu. This tag exclusively is for programming questions related to Windows 10; general software issues not directly related to programming should be directed to Super User.

Windows 10 was released on July 29th, 2015 and is the successor to Microsoft Windows 8.1 which combines features from Windows 7 and 8.1, including touch-interface and restored Start Menu. It has some important changes which affect developers.

Windows 10 is the latest OS launched by Microsoft. Users can upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, provided they have a genuine version.

At the Build conference 2015, Microsoft announced the fact that Windows 10 will be designed to run on every conceivable device, from desktops and phones, to IoT devices and televisions.

A few of the changes include:

  • Unified platform for desktop and mobile; will be replaced by Windows 10. Developers will now develop for the (Universal Windows Platform), a set of libraries that can be updated independent of the OS and will be common to , , and .
  • Integration
  • Better integration, including streaming games from your console.
  • New browser (codenamed Spartan).
  • Support for holographic computing.

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Edge Extension Native Messaging: UWP app is closed if no response sent back to Edge browser/Extension

Every request from Edge browser needs a corresponding response to be sent. If not, the companion UWP(and the associated Win32 App, if any) exit citing "SystemPolicy" as the reason. To illustrate the problem, I can refer to the SecureInput sample.…
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Disable Scaling for UWP App

Windows 10 automatically applies a scale factor to UWP apps, to give a similar effective pixel size across multiple devices. I want my UWP UI to look the same across any screen of the same resolution, regardless of the scale factor. Is this…
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Jupyter notebook will not open from command prompt

I am trying to work with Jupyter notebook on Windows 10 (64-bit). I downloaded Anaconda3 5.0.1. Now I should be able to open the jupyter notebook from the command prompt by typing jupyter notebook. However I get the following error: The only way I…
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How does WPF Spellchecking Work Internally?

As I was developing the interface for my current project, I came to the realization the WPF has built-in spellchecking available for TextBoxes, etc. I don't know why this surprised me, but it did. Perhaps because I'm quite used to Winforms, which…
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Windows 10 date and time management with UWF

I have my Windows 10 device locked down with UWF (Unified Write Filter) feature. I noticed a strange behaviour when changing the system date and time while UWF is enabled and the volume C: is protected. In particular I noticed that when i change the…
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Mamp won't start apache (Windows 10)

I've installed MAMP Pro on my Windows 10 Computer this week, and it worked fine until today. I've restarted my computer and immediately started MAMP Pro - this caused the MySQL server to start, but not Apache. Then, I restarted MAMP and no server…
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Getting spontaneous exceptions with Windows 10 BLE API

I'm pairing with a BLE device and querying all it's services & characteristics in a small test console program Every now and then I get this error during the query process: Scanning for BLE Devices with service…
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Creating new file association in Windows 10 by registry

I'm working on Java application and I want to associate some file extensions with this app. While on older Windows systems (XP, 7) I had no problems - just creating two keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, for…
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CGAL Error: LNK1104: cannot open file CGAL-...4.11.lib

This has been a common problem on forums but solutions elude me. Windows 10 64 bit, CGAL 4.11, Cmake 3.9.2, Boost 1.65.1, Qt5 for MSVS 2017, libQGLViewer 2.7.0, Visual Studio 2017, CGAL built both as Debug and Release, myriad C++ include paths and…
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GetModuleFileNameEx on 32bit process from 64bit process on windows 10

I'm trying to enumerate 32bit process modules names from 64bit application using the following code: if (EnumProcessModulesEx(hProcess, hMods, sizeof(hMods), &cbNeeded, LIST_MODULES_ALL)) { for (i = 0; i < (cbNeeded / sizeof(HMODULE)); i++) …
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Cannot see ports on local ip using windows bash wsl

I've been using the new windows bash for local dev, and whilst it's been great for most things, I can't seem to make any ports created by my webpack setup viewable on anything other than localhost:{port} Which works great. But I want to be able to…
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UWP Toast works, but images (AdaptiveImage, ToastGenericHeroImage, ToastGenericAppLogo) not displaying

I am targeting Windows 10, latest OS build. I copy/pasted some stuff from the Microsoft adaptive toast examples--including the paths. Here's my code: public void CreateToast(ToastViewModel model) { ToastContent content = new ToastContent() …
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Tk only copies to clipboard if "paste" is used before program exits

Environment Python 3.6.2 Windows 10 The Problem I use the tk method clipboard_append() to copy a string to the clipboard. When my program is run from the Python interpreter data is copied to the clipboard correctly. When run using "C:\Python36.exe…
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Change lock screen imsge in Windows 10 using Powershell

to be short and sweet I am trying to create a Powershell script that changes the background lock screen image in Windows 10. Have done my research and here is what I found: $path = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization"…
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Drag and drop into Visual Studio 2017 running on Windows 10 does not work

I have always been able to drag source code files into the Visual Studio editor to open them. This is very convenient but lately it no longer works. I thought the issue was my upgrading to VS2017 but after reading several similar questions here on…
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