“Microsoft Windows is a group of OSs manufactured by Microsoft. Windows is available in 32 and 64-bit versions and offers a graphical user interface (GUI), multitasking functionalities, virtual memory management capabilities, and support for several peripheral devices. Windows OSs constitute client as well as server versions.” (Definition from https://www.techopedia.com/definition/3390/microsoft-windows)
“Windows? I thought this was a reputable cloud developer stuff blog!”
Okay, maybe so – but Microsoft Windows is still a big part of my daily life, and to keep on developing other stuff, I sometimes need to tweak something on my PC – and hence I encounter the solutions I post here.
All this means, that all the problems, solutions and hacks related strictly to Microsoft Windows operating system go here.
This article explains how to make your Microsoft Store (the app distribution channel on Windows – the one that’s supposed to distribute apps reliably and keep them up-to-date) work after it has suddenly stopped updating or installing any apps with a very non-descriptive error – “Something happened on our end”.…Continue reading “Something happened on our end” on Microsoft Store
This article shows you how to set a window size for a MAUI app on Windows. This is super useful for debugging – in my case, I wanted to retain a fast development cycle with lightweight debugging to work on my code quickly, but still see everything in roughly the…Continue reading How to set Window size for your MAUI app in Windows?
This article explains one way to fix a horribly laggy desktop user experience in Windows 10 (and probably 11) when your laptop is beefy enough it should not lag and even has a dedicated NVIDIA Graphics card. At least applying this fix is going to be quite straightforward – but…Continue reading How to fix all UWP/WinUI apps being laggy in Windows 10/11?
It’s the roaring twenties again, cloud is the hot stuff, and nobody needs a server anymore. Right? Nope! I’ve been involved in more on-prem or hybrid projects in the last 12 months than in the last 3-4 years combined. There are plenty of industries and valid uses for still setting…Continue reading How to install IIS (Internet Information Services) on Windows 10?
This post describes a few different things that can (and will) go wrong when you’re trying to load DLLs in PowerShell, and a couple of ways you can try to fix them. Typically, you’d run into an error message like “Exception calling LoadFrom with 1 argument(s): Could not load file…Continue reading How to resolve issues when loading DLLs in PowerShell?
If you’re like me, you’re not using Adobe Reader, but rather switched to Foxit Reader years ago, and never looked back. Foxit has a great PDF printer, it’s sleek and for the most part a pleasure to use – in other words, it’s a great reader. But it’s not perfect.…Continue reading How to remove Foxit Drive in Foxit Reader?
Imagine being deeply focused on a very important and time-sensitive task and, all of a sudden, an incoming email throws you off by jumping into focus. I am sure you don’t need to imagine too hard as this has likely annoyed you in the recent past too, right? Here is…Continue reading How to prevent Outlook and other programs from stealing focus
If you’re developing something like a WPF app and you need to update values on the User Interface based on a long-running operation that runs in a background thread (like depicted in my other blog post right here – that post is for a full-trust SharePoint solution, but the basic principle…Continue reading Using Dispatcher to update values in GUI elements from a background thread
