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Microsoft broke Miracast for Surface Pro (original) users on Windows 8.1. They have not officially commented on this or provided any information on a fix. As pointed out on Twitter by Rafael Rivera, you can work around this by…
You read that correctly. Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 Photos App by design won’t let you select what images are used on the Photos App Live Tile. Microsoft uses your 50 most recent images, regardless of location, which means they can be…
If you are trying to use the DLNA Play (Play To) functions in the Windows 8.1 Photos App (display an image, then Charms, Devices, Play) and getting nowhere fast with a This app can’t play to a device right now…
Complaints have surface that folks attempting to go to www.facebook.com are being force re-directed to m.facebook.com (the Facebook mobile site). The folks at Facebook have made some change to browser detection that causes this redirect. Here are the steps…
Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 RTM Photo App displays photos stored on networked computers as long as the location is indexable after using the classic desktop Windows/file explorer to add that location to the Pictures Library. Linux powered, non Windows indexable…
After creating a Modern UI App for the Windows and Surface Communities, I decided that it would help me keep up with current topics in Windows if I created a similar app for Microsoft’s Technet Windows Forums. Coming from a…
If you have upgraded to Windows 8.1, you may discover that the Photos – Music – Video’s Apps (one or more of these Apps) reports no content. Windows 8.0 showed libraries by default in the Classic Desktop Explorer view but…
If you read my blog posts this Spring on enabling legacy DMR’s in Windows 8.0, you know that you had to create individual entries and modify them for each device you have in your home. Gabe Frost from Microsoft has…
I have created a Modern UI App for Windows 8 Preview that serves as a quick way to see hot topics in the community discussion categories for Microsoft Windows and Surface. This is a FREE App. The App is…
On both my test x86 desktop and my Surface RT, I’ve experienced some app issues after upgrading to the Windows 8.1 Preview. Symptoms are any of the following: 1. App can’t be updated even though Windows Store shows Update Available…