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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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Show touch keyboard (TabTip.exe) in Windows 10 Anniversary edition

In Windows 8 and Windows 10 before Anniversary update it was possible to show touch keyboard by starting C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\TabTip.exe It no longer works in Windows 10 Anniversary update; the TabTip.exe process is…
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Remove 'x' Input Decoration In Microsoft Edge (formerly Project Spartan)

In the CSS of a website I'm currently working on we use the following CSS to hide the 'x' button that Internet Explorer 10 and 11 add to input fields for users to clear their contents: input::-ms-clear { display: none; } Viewing the same website…
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How to stop backgrounddownload exe

As per attached screen shot BackgroundDownload.exe is running in background and consuming lots of internet data. How it can be stopped?
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There was an error while executing `VBoxManage`, a CLI used by Vagrant for controlling VirtualBox. windows 10

I just got laravel homestead to run yesterday using powershell. Now, it won't even run. I just suspended vagrant and turned off my pc. Now it's just giving me this error: Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default:…
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Error when creating venv, Error: Command '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1

When I try to create venv it throws this error: Error: Command '['C:\\Users\\admin\\env\\Scripts\\python.exe', '-Im', 'ensurepip', '--upgrade', '--default-pip']' returned non-zero exit status 1. It is strange for me because I'm using python for a…
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How to hide hover tooltips on Spyder 4

not sure where to ask: is there a way to not have the help tooltip/popup/hover window opening in spyder? since updating to 4.0 the window does not close when you change between windows: guess something like this will be reported and delt with in…
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Can I run Docker Desktop on Windows without admin privileges?

I know I need admin rights to install Docker Desktop; but do I have to be an admin to run it? The documentation doesn't say that I do, and Googling doesn't suggest that either; but if I try to run it as a non-privileged user, the process is killed…
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How can I open a local HTML file in Microsoft Edge browser?

Since time immemorial, most web browsers have been able to open a local file if you ran the web-browser executable, for example just execute iexplore.exe file:/c:/temp/file or via the IShellDocView interfaces. I am trying to do this from within my…
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How to create virtual webcam in Windows 10?

I would like to take video from a webcam, render some text on the frames and do some motion tracking and pass it on to a virtual webcam so it can be streamed easily. I found some answers on stackoverflow suggesting that I should use DirectShow.…
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Setting window size on desktop for a Windows 10 UWP app

I've just started learning UWP app development on Windows 10 Pro using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition. I tried to modify the C# version of the official "Hello, World!" sample by setting the Width and Height attributes of the Page tag in…
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Hotkey to open cmd with administration rights in current folder from Explorer

In Explorer sequence Shift+F10 -> open command window here opens cmd in current directory. Is there any way to do the same via shortcuts to launch cmd with administration rights?
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How to run a PowerShell script with verbose output?

I'm wondering if there's a way to run a PowerShell script such that both the commands and the output of each line of the script are printed. For example, in Bash you would write bash -x myscript or place a set -x at the top of your script. In Batch,…
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pip not working in Python Installation in Windows 10

I downloaded and installed Python 3.5 from https://www.python.org/downloads/ on my Windows 10 machine with IDLE I want to install other packages using pip using the following and various other options in the IDLE commandline editor. >> pip install …
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How to exit or close an UWP app programmatically? (Windows 10)

I need it for their own exit button. Tell me please? I try this: this.Close(); //or Exit dont work(
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Is GPU pass-through possible with docker for Windows?

I am trying to run an application inside a docker container in Windows 10. But I am not able to get the GPU working inside docker. I read that it needs "GPU Pass-through." How should I get around this?
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