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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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Windows 10 OpenSSH key invalid format

The recent beta version of OpenSSH on Windows 10 does not accept my openssh formatted private key: The same key works on ssh shipped with git shell from github. Is there a format option for openssh on Windows that I'm missing or is this a bug?
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Xampp control panel is not showing

My Xampp control panel is not showing in the desktop (Windows 10), but can only up the servers through the shortcut (minimized option in the task bar). As follows: I have close the application without stopping the servers, will that be the case of…
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What program in Windows 10 uses port 80?

I updated my Windows 7 PC to Windows 10. When I start AMPPS it says port 80 is used by another program. What program uses port 80?
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cursor sometimes changes from a vertical line to an underscore in Rstudio

I am using R-studio 3.3.3 on a 64 bit windows 10 Acer laptop. I am new to programming in R and I just discovered that my cursor sometimes changes from a vertical line to an underscore in R-studio. Could someone help tell me why?
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How to remove the cause of an unexpected indentation warning when generating code documentation?

The documentation code with the problem is at the beginning of a method: """ Gtk.EventBox::button-release-event signal handler. :param widget: The clicked widget (The Gtk.EventBox). :param event: Gdk.EventButton object with information regarding …
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Unable to copy to Windows container ('docker cp') on Windows 10

I set up Docker for Windows on my laptop and switched from Linux Containers to Windows Containers in Docker's settings (which prompted a couple of restarts and Windows updates). I pulled an image and ran a container based on it using the…
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MSHTML DLL on Windows 10

I have a C# solution that makes use of Smith Html Editor (I'm developing on the main project which uses this, so I don't know much about this library), which makes a reference to MSHTML. This worked fine until my upgrade to Windows 10 and it can't…
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Upgraded to Windows 10 and now WAMP won't work

I had WAMP working happily on windows 7 as my local development server. Upgraded to Windows 10 today and had an orange WAMP icon on my taskbar. Turns out Windows had installed and ran IIS automatically (why?). I disabled IIS, restarted, started WAMP…
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Powershell install - No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name

I am having a difficult time installing/updating my powershell modules. I noticed this when I tried installing DBA Tools moudle. Reference links are https://dbatools.io/download/ and https://github.com/sqlcollaborative/dbatools. It's a corporate PC.…
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Changing the hostname on WSL

sudo hostname XYZ does not seems to work in WSL. I recently reinstalled Windows 10 and my wsl hostname is DESKTOP-XXXXXX. I'm trying to change it to something else. I tried the following: sudo hostname wsl I also changed /etc/hostname to "wsl" and…
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How do I capture https requests with Postman native app using Windows 10?

I am using the Postman native app on Windows 10 and am struggling with trying to capture https requests. Postman's Documentation for this is for Mac and not Windows. In particular, I am working on a web application that creates a session cookie upon…
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How to launch my app via NFC tag?

I'm currently working on porting an app to UWP. The app has a page with a "Write to NFC" button. After the user taps it, it waits for an NFC tag and writes a LaunchApp:WriteTag binary message. What worked fine under WP8.1, doesn't work at all under…
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How do you set the glass blend colour on Windows 10?

Using the undocumented SetWindowCompositionAttribute API on Windows 10, it's possible to enable glass for a window. The glass is white or clear, as seen in this screenshot: However, the Windows 10 Start menu and the notification center, which both…
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How to change Highlight color of the selected ListView item in UWP (Windows 10)

I'm working on a Windows 10 app using C# and XAML. I have a ListView and I want to change the default HighLight color of an selected item. I was seeing many code examples (like this) but all are designed for WP8 or Win8, I was trying to implement…
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Get Screen Resolution in Win10 UWP App

As an UWP App runs in window mode on common desktop systems the "old" way of getting the screen resolution won't work anymore. Old Resolution with Window.Current.Bounds was like shown in. Is there another way to get the resolution of the (primary)…
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