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Stop Windows 10 from automatically downloading (promoted) apps
A Google Search gives quite a lot of solutions. Here are some of them. Categorized.
Settings Changes
Metro Settings App
Navigate to Personalization > Start
Turn off Occasionally show suggestions ...
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Run Metro application on startup?
Simply,
Windows + R and run shell:AppsFolder
You will see all apps in this window. Create a shortcut to the desktop, then copy that shortcut to the startup folder available at shell:Startup or found ...
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How to turn off smooth scrolling for apps and start menu in Windows 10?
You're in fact asking two different things. I can answer the title question.
One option is called Smooth-scroll list boxes and it is located in
Control panel > System > Advanced system ...
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How to create Microsoft.StickyNotes.exe shortcut in Windows 10?
Press Win+R to open Run dialog box. Type shell:AppsFolder in that box. Find the sticky notes app icon. Right click on that icon and select 'Create Shortcut' option as follows:
Alternatively, right ...
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Windows Metro apps have wrong icon in search UI
If you go to System > Advanced System Settings > Performance >Settings
You should see the option for "Show thumbnails instead of icons."
Click to enable.
A quick reboot and a few minutes, you ...
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Remove Unwanted Metro Apps from Windows 10 All Apps List
To remove all such applications ONLY from your user account (and to not delete something important!), use this command in PowerShell:
Get-AppxPackage |
Where-Object Name -notlike *Libs* |
Where-...
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Why does the .exe file of a Modern App fail to run and produces an error regarding the app container?
You can run a Windows modern app from the command line using an explorer.exe shell command like this:
explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\<Package Name>_<Publisher ID>!<App ID>
Or, via ...
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Some Metro (Universal) apps freeze on lost focus?
The Store apps have a more complex lifecycle than Win32 applications:
Before Windows 8, apps had a simple lifecycle. Win32 and .NET apps are
either running or not running. When a user minimizes ...
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Enable click-and-drag scrolling in Windows 8 / Metro?
There is an Autohotkey solution to this. It can emulate scrolling in a way similar to what you describe. I have made a script which emulates dynamic scrolling with mouse movement.
Here is github link ...
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Windows 10 modern-ui apps wrong language
It's a late answer, but when I had the same problem I solved it very quickly and easily.
I live in Germany and love my OS to be in English. In order to achieve a full English OS, including apps, and a ...
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How to prevent the Windows 10 Anniversary update from reinstalling Modern apps?
Winaero.com found a hack on MDL that uses AppLocker to block the apps:
Run secpol.msc ( + R)
Select Application Control Policies in the left, then click Applocker.
Right click the right pane and ...
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Start Windows Application from command Line
Window store apps are started via URLs not via the exe file. This is how you also open web sites.
The below command is a batch file that list all URL schemes on your computer including internet one. ...
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How to get the Microsoft Store URL from Get-AppXPackage output or AppxManifest.xml?
I advise that you use winget to obtain the ID of the application.
PS C:\Users\> winget search "Windows Calculator" --source=msstore
Name Id Version Source
---------...
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Can I disable the metro-style settings menus in windows 10?
GOD MODE
ALL the settings in Control Panel at your Finger clicks.
Right-click your desktop and create a new folder.
Copy/Paste/Type
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
No spaces allowed
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Windows Metro Apps lauch executable
That's by design.
Apps in Program Files\WindowsApps is are modern apps. It's different from classic win32 type application.
You can launch it via command with this syntax:
explorer.exe shell:...
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Hotkeys available in Windows 10 "Open With" dialogue
It doesn't appear to have a lot of hotkeys per se, but it is navigable with the keyboard.
When the How do you want to open this file? dialog appears, you can press Tab, Down, Space, End, Space to ...
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Windows 10: Remove all default apps except specified ones
The Remove-AppxPackage command must be at the end. You must filter the list before processing it.
Like this:
Get-AppxPackage | Where-Object { $_.Name -notlike "Microsoft.WindowsDVDPlayer", "*store*" ...
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Windows Metro apps have wrong icon in search UI
First, thank you for your posting!
I believe in MY case it was additionally necessary to delete the following App Icon Cache directory:
c:\Users\ExampleUserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft....
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Taskbar Disappearing on Windows 8.1
I found this solution for Taskbar and icons that disappear:
Go to Task Manager
Right click on Explorer, Properties
Go to Security tab, click Advanced
Change ownership to Everyone. Check all ...
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Windows 8 Stuck on Start Screen File Search
So this thread is even older now, but I think the problem I had was similar, and I eventually tried moving my mouse to the top left corner of my screen, and a frame appeared that I could click on, and ...
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