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Windows 8.1, released on October 18, 2013, is the first major update to Microsoft Windows 8. Windows 8.1 is another addition to the Windows NT family.

Windows 8.1, released on October 18, 2013, is the first major update to Microsoft Windows 8. Windows 8.1 is another addition to the Windows NT family.

Windows 8.1 introduces many new features & APIs for developers of Windows Store apps and deprecates many APIs. Development for Windows Store apps which run on Windows 8.1 can only be done using Visual Studio 2013.

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Cannot create a directory named "Aux" or starting by "Aux." on Windows 8.1

I just encountered a really weird bug on Windows 8.1. I can't seem to be able to create a folder named Aux or starting by Aux.. I tried on every disk, but I get the following message every time: Le nom du périphérique spécifié n'est pas valide (The…
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How do you scale the title bar on a DPI aware win application?

I am making my app dpi-aware per monitor by setting True/PM in the manifest file. I can verify with process explorer that this is indeed working or by calling GetProcessDpiAwareness. This is all working fine and I can scale…
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Microsoft Universal Apps and Unit Testing, trouble with AppModel version

I started a new Solution to try the Universal Apps. To test my code I want to add a unit test project (windows phone 8.1), but if I do so I get this error message when I start a unit test: Error : DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. Windows…
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Equivalent of wget command line for windows 8.1

I'm using git bash as my command line interface in my working environment. Is there a wget command available for windows 8.1?
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Python install failed windows 8.1- Error 0x80240017: Failed to execute MSU package

I have windows 8.1 and tried installing: python-3.5.0rc3-amd64 I tried running as admin to no avail. Here is the log of the failed install: http://pastebin.com/Y465P6zi.
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Is Universal Windows Platform the replacement of WinRT of Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps?

Is Universal Windows Platform the replacement of WinRT of Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps? I mean, there was a WinRT platform to develop metro apps exclusively for Windows 8. Now, that is replaced by UWP, isn't it?
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How to set time out for http client request operation in windows phone 8.1/Windows 8.1

How to set Timeout property to Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient operation. The code sample I used is below. public HttpClient httpClient; public CancellationTokenSource cts; public void SendRequest(addressUri,postrequestbody) { …
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Win8.1 will fire unload and load event to the WPF application when we close and reconnect to this machine using RDC from win7 or other OS

This is a strange issue only in Win8.1. As we all know, if there is a running application in a machine, there should not be any other behavior against the application when we connect/disconnect/reconnect to this machine by Remote Desktop Connection.…
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Installing USB driver for Nexus 4 (with KitKat) on Windows 8 64-bit - "no compatible software driver"

I'm desperately trying to install ADB USB drivers for my Nexus 4, which (as you might know) are required for any form of Android Development. You could also say, that they are the single most necessary tool used for Android programming, right? I…
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doPostback failing in IE 11+ Windows 8.1

I am getting blank page in IE 11 in Windows 8.1 Preview.After Inspecting the page I assumed that following code might be the culprit,since after these line there is not further line displayed debugger window, So code is breaking after this line. IE…
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Arithmetic overflow exception when opening SQL connection

I got very weird ArithmeticOverflowException when opening an SQL connection to the underlying SQL database (stack trace included below). It doesn't make a difference which version of the server is used (I've verified MS SQL 2005/2008/2012/2014),…
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Visual Studio 2015 RC Community will not install, says it is already installed

As the title implies, I am not able to install Visual Studio 2015 RC Community, and I keep getting the following errors. For the record, I am on Windows 8.1 Professional. Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 is currently installed on this machine. Please…
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How to install Torch on windows 8.1?

Torch is a scientific computing framework with wide support for machine learning algorithms. It is easy to use and efficient, thanks to an easy and fast scripting language, LuaJIT, and an underlying C/CUDA implementation. Q: Is there a way to…
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Installing MPI for Windows

I am trying to install MPI for Windows 8, so when I searched net I got steps for installing it on XP/7 but not for windows 8. The link is: http://swash.sourceforge.net/online_doc/swashimp/node9.html But firstly when I have to allow mpi.exe and…
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Windows 8.1 - Possible to change tile colour?

Since upgrading to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8 I've noticed the colour of the tiles looks awful, is there a way to change these that is... Free Doesn't involve hacking around with registry/XML files As you can see below my GIT icons are barely…
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