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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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C++ How to detect Windows 10

I have written a PC auditing tool many years ago and have been keeping it up to date. One of basic functions is reporting the version of Windows running on the PC being audited for which I have always used the GetVersionEx call. This works up to…
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How do I create file hardlink in PowerShell on Windows 10?

How do I create file hardlink in PowerShell on Windows 10? PSCX has New-Hardlink, but is it still needed on Windows 10? You could always shell out to mklink, but from powershell that requires you prefix the command with cmd /c, which is ugly and…
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JavaFX ComboBox not responding on Windows 10

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and JavaFX code which worked in Windows 8.1 appears to freeze up in 10. I've tracked the issue down to opening a ComboBox within a dialog. This appears to freeze any JavaFX program. Does anyone else have the same…
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What's the cleanest way to remove Homestead and Vagrant from a Windows system?

I followed the instructions in Laravel docs to install Vagrant and Homestead on Windows 10, but now I've decided to move the whole development stuff to another dedicated server running Debian. I need to fully remove Vagrant, Homestead, Composer as…
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Python: How to open a folder on Windows Explorer(Python 3.6.2, Windows 10)

If I store the path that i want to open in a string called finalpath which looks something like this: "./2.8 Movies/English/Die Hard Series" then how do i open this in Windows Explorer?(Windows 10)(Python 3.6.2) P.S I know many people have asked…
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repositories.cfg could not be loaded in Windows 10

while installing native-script i got repositories.cfg could not be loaded error , please help me debugging it. It would help me if you can give the way to download the file externally. The code i used was..... @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy…
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Cannot connect the virtual device sata0:1 because no corresponding device is available on the host

Cannot connect the virtual device sata0:1 because no corresponding device is available on the host. The error pops up when I enable the host/guest share and map the drive. I have installed the VMware Tools, etc. I tried to delete and then add back…
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Windows Defender - Add exclusion folder programmatically

I was checking out different keyloggers for research purposes and stumbled upon Refog: https://www.refog.com/keylogger/ This program could catch a lot of system events, but what really caught my attention was something else. The program created a…
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Cordova - check_reqs module is missing for platform. Skipping it

I am having issues with a Cordova application originally built on Ubuntu but when I try to load the very same Cordova application onto my Windows 10 machine I get into issues. When I run the following command this is the response I get : $ cordova…
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Windows Phone emulator not starting (couldn`t setup the UDP port)

After updating Windows 10 to build 10061 windows phone emulators (all 8.1 and 10) stopped starting. I get the following error: "Windows Phone Emulator is unable to connect to the Windows Phone operating system. Couldn`t setup the UDP port" I tried…
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Windows 10 and Docker container logs / Docker Logging driver

I'm using Windows 10 with native docker installation. I'm looking for the location where docker save the containers logs. In Linux, the Docker containers log files are in this…
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How to create Java project in Netbeans, without using Maven as default?

I'm currently trying to create a basic Java project. The first option that appears is "Java with Maven", which I already used, but isn't giving me the "Create Main Class" option that I need. I'm using Apache Netbeans IDE 11.0, running on Windows 10,…
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Mount disk image on WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux)?

I'm using Ubuntu and I have created a full copy of my system SSD hard drive with the following command: dd if=/dev/sda of=ubuntu.iso and saved it on a backup HDD which is an NTFS drive. I'm now on Windows 10 PRO and want to mount this image using…
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sh: 1: rimraf: not found whenever I run npm run build within vagrant installed on Windows 10

I want to run a webpack project within Vagrant (installed on Windows 10) where I embedded a Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine. I was able to install npm 5.6.0 and nodejs v8.9.4 very successfully. I tried to run npm install to install all my…
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howto install pygraphviz on windows 10 64bit

Has anyone succeeded in installing pygraphviz on windows 10 64bit? I tried anaconda with python 3.5 64bit & 32bit with no success. Here is the error I am getting with python 3.5 32bit on win10 64bit python -m pip install pygraphviz…
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