Windows 10: I NEED SWs BACK MICROSOFT. IS THIS MY PIPE DREAM?

I NEED MY OFFICE 2016 PRO APPS TO WORK ON WINDOWS 10. THEY DONT ANYMORE. WHEN WILL THEY?

I ALSO NEED A SW THAT PLAYS DVDs AND BLUE RAYS.

MICROSOFT, THIS ONUS IS ON YOU.

:)

 

Named pipe and Symbolic link to it

That's the situation: I've a program that sends data to a text file (those are just information about lights state of an arcade machine). I need to redirect those informations to a COM port, so I've replaced the txt file with a symbolic link to a pipe. I
don't have access to the source code of this main program. The only way I've found to do that in Windows 10 is creating a symbolic link using pipes like this:

Code:

mklink SymlinkName \\.\pipe\pipename

Then I've create a program that create/reads the pipe and send it to the COM port. It works fine on Windows 10 without any kind of problem and I've worked on that OS for my development.

Today I've tried all this stuff on the arcade machine (windows 7 Ultimate based) but the Symlink doesn't work. For debug purpouse I try to send data to my COM port simpy using command line, for example

Code:

echo foo > COM1 

and this works fine (so the problem is not in the serial line), but if I try to do that throught the Symlink, it sais:

Code:

echo foo > SymlinkThe data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid.

Any suggestion?

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

 

Cheap Photo box that will get the job done

WEll i took on this project for PP hes a hardware reviewer and wants to get the professional looking pics for the Pc parts

Materials:

• Big cardboard box

• a razor

• white material 3 yards

• cone lights

• stapler

• medical tape

• pvc pipe about 6 inches longer than your box

• white paint any cheap finger paint would work

the project I'm guessing will cost me $30 if it works out properly
I will post pictures and step by step as i do it