{"id":1177,"date":"2015-06-29T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2015-06-29T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:23:43","slug":"fix-for-people-app-crashing-in-win-8-1-after-latest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/29\/fix-for-people-app-crashing-in-win-8-1-after-latest-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix for People App crashing in Win 8.1 after latest update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft updated the Mail, Calendar and People App in the Windows Store on June 26. After that update, a number of people, including myself, found that the app would open but then \u201ccrash\u201d immediately. It still would be running in the background, but would not display the default screen. I saw this on 4 Windows 8.1 computers. I checked the 2 computers running Windows 8.1 that had not yet been updated with the latest revision of the app and they worked fine. I upgraded to the new App release on one of these two computers, and as expected, the crashing behavior started.<\/p>\n<p>After reading the initial complaints that started appearing in the Microsoft Forums <a title=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows8_1-winapps\/windows-store-app-update-breaks-people-app\/cd14abd2-1bc5-40d8-9e09-a51c66bfea2a\" href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows8_1-winapps\/windows-store-app-update-breaks-people-app\/cd14abd2-1bc5-40d8-9e09-a51c66bfea2a\">http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows8_1-winapps\/windows-store-app-update-breaks-people-app\/cd14abd2-1bc5-40d8-9e09-a51c66bfea2a<\/a> I started digging into this. My hunch, reinforced by my logs and the log from another user, was that something in the social media integration function was\u00a0 causing the issue.<\/p>\n<p>I found that link to control which social media accounts were linked to my Microsoft ID: <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.live.com\/cid-27a6342ef735cc0f\/Services\/?view=manage\">https:\/\/profile.live.com\/cid-27a6342ef735cc0f\/Services\/?view=manage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the Twitter integration was causing the issue for me. After removing the Twitter integration, the App functions as it should and displays properly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 10px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"after removing all social media\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/after-removing-all-social-media.png\" alt=\"after removing all social media\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And yes, the Facebook Connect piece is now deprecated, but that was not causing the crashes.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not 100% convinced that Microsoft has escalated the issue to the team that owns the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Microsoft updated the Mail, Calendar and People App in the Windows Store on June 26. After that update, a number of people, including myself, found that the app would open but then \u201ccrash\u201d immediately. It still would be running in the background, but would not display the default screen. I saw this on 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>&nbsp; Microsoft updated the Mail, Calendar and People App in the Windows Store on June 26. After that update, a number of people, including myself, found that the app would open but then \u201ccrash\u201d immediately. It still would be running in the background, but would not display the default screen. I saw this on 4 Windows 8.1 computers. I checked the 2 computers running Windows 8.1 that had not yet been updated with the latest revision of the app and they worked fine. I upgraded to the new App release on one of these two computers, and as expected, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/category\/windows-8-1\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Windows 8.1<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Barb","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barb\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-iZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}