Windows 10: Every few weeks Microsoft waste days of my life, WHY?

Just so sickening.

All day had a "feature" update stuck at 93% with CPU maxing out at 100% on some plugins migration task for hours. Twice it tells me I have to reboot despite still at 93% and after eventually rebooting telling me about some silly new features that I don't care about. Then it turns out the update failed and it wants to try it all over again and again.

Also got another error for an Edge update that keeps failing with 0x80240009. I've never used Edge and never will.

Every time you google an error, you get 100's of thousands of hits going back 10 years or more and Microsoft just tell people to TRY long winded procedures that the poster says does not work and then the thread ends without solution.

Do they just want everyone to give on Windows and move on?

:)

 

How to add tiles to Life at a Glance?

Hi

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you pin the app tile and Life at a glance on the Start screen.

Follow the below steps:

• Type program in the search bar from the Desktop.
• Right click on the app and select Pin to Start.
  
• Again, type life at a glance in the search bar from the Desktop.
• Right click on the Life at a glance and select Pin to Start.
  

Hope this helps, let us know if you need further assistance.

 

I cannot delete or add apps to 'life at a glance'

Hi,

How exactly you are trying to add or delete apps to life at a glance?

Did you get any error when you try adding or deleting?

I suggest you to follow the below methods to add apps:

Method1:

• 
  Open Start menu and Click All Apps.
  
• 
  Right click on the app you want to add in Life at a glance and select Pin to Start.
  
• 
  The app will be added to Life at a glance.
  

Method 2:

• 
  Open Start menu and Click All Apps.
  
• 
  Drag the app from app list and drop the app in Life at a glance part.
  
• 
  The app will be added to Life at a glance.
  

I suggest you to follow the below steps to delete the apps:

• 
  Open Start menu and Click All Apps.
  
• 
  Right click on the app you want to add in Life at a glance and select Unpin from Start.
  
• 
  The app will be deleted from Life at a glance.
  

Hope it helps. Revert to us with the results, will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Startup applications automatically depending on day of the week

As mentioned, in Windows 10, Task Scheduler can be used to schedule a program by day of week. If you want to use Task Scheduler to do this and your program doesn't need to start on login the steps would be the following:

However, the OP appears to be asking how to start a program by day of week on login/startup. Task Scheduler can start a program by day of week OR login but does not appear to allow you to specify both.

To do that you can write a simple VBS script called something like "ExecuteByDayOfWeekOnStartup.vbs" and put it in your Startup folder (Win, type shell:startup. This is based on this microsoft technet answer. on determining the day of the week.

Here's a sample vbs script:

This is easier than the Task Scheduler as it doesn't require going through the wizard for each task and only requires simple editing of one file. It also allows you to easily specify more than one program to start on each weekday. If the program is not in your system PATH then be sure to add the full path name within the quotes.