Windows 10: Microsoft Store for Windows 10 is getting Timeline support for Insiders

Microsoft Store is getting a new update for Windows 10 that appears to be rolling out to the Insiders at the moment. The Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring and Release Preview Ring should be getting Microsoft Store version 11809.1001.4.0 or newer with support for Windows 10 Timeline.

For those unfamiliar, Timeline is a feature that helps you track what files, apps, web pages and other activities you’ve been working on over the past few weeks. Timeline feature was introduced with Windows 10 April 2018 Update, also known as Windows 10 version 1803.

Microsoft Store activities will now show up in the Timeline. It will track the app pages you open in Microsoft Store and display them in the Timeline. For example, if you open Microsoft Store and Word Mobile app page, the Timeline will display both Store and Word Mobile app listing in Timeline under what Microsoft calls “Activities”

This handly option can help you track Store activities that you’ve been performing over the past weeks and month.

Timeline is available on all Windows 10 April 2018 Update PCs. If you’re unable to find Timeline, look carefully at the taskbar and next to the Cortana search box, you will find an icon “Task View”.



If it’s not showing up, right-click anywhere on the taskbar and tap on “Show Task View button”.

Thanks Rankin for the tip!

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Windows 10 Tweaks

As you may already know, Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8) allow you to log in with a valid Microsoft account, instead of creating a local account that only works on your machine. However, you may prefer to keep a local account for privacy reasons. If you do, though, some Windows 10 features—like Cortana—may not work. Despite the default behavior, the Windows 10 Store is not one of them. You can still log in to your Microsoft account for just the Store without switching to a full Microsoft account. The process, however, is not terribly obvious. To do so, follow these steps:

• Launch the Store from your Start menu.
• Click the user icon next to the search box.
• Click “Sign-in” from the menu that appears.
• Choose “Microsoft account” and log in like normal.
• When the “Make it yours” box appears do not enter your password. Instead, click “Sign in to just this app instead.”

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Microsoft Botches Up UEFI Support for Windows 7 on ASUS Motherboards



Microsoft suggests updating to Windows 10 to patch Windows 7

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MICROSOFT HAS confirmed a potentially lappy-borking problem that it won't be fixing, because Windows 7.

Woody Leonhard, the respected Windows columnist, points to a problem involving Asus motherboards, which also appear rebadged in a variety of other manufacturers' machines, and the activation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 7 in a patch KB3133977.

Short version: install update, welcome to Borksville, population you.

Both Asus and Microsoft acknowledged the problem. Microsoft entitled the article "BitLocker can't encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2", but we prefer to just call it "Trevor for brevity."

The firm's advice was that it's an optional update, leave well alone, you'll be fine, or alternatively turn secure boot off.

Then Microsoft did a silly, silly thing.

It moved the update from 'optional' to 'recommended' and anyone who reads this site regularly will know what happens when Microsoft does this. That's right boys and girls - it makes it automatically install, unless you've specifically told your machine not to.

So now, if you have one of the affected motherboard and you keep your security updates automatic like wot Microsoft recommends, then your machine will stop working properly.

We should add it's not permanently bricked, but it will take some mucking about in the BIOS to fix and that's a pain even for an experienced computer user.

Microsoft has, by offering a workaround, suggested heavily that it won't be fixing the problem, though we have asked the question, so expect a response in about a fortnight.

But the real kicker is this piece of advice: "Note The Secure Boot feature is supported in Windows 10. To learn more about the security advantages of this feature and about the upgrade path from Windows 7 to Windows 10, go to the following Windows website"

Holy toledo, this company really knows how to rub people up the wrong way.

After all - if the advice is to manually avoid the update or move to a version of the operating system where there's virtually no control over updates, then Microsoft is dealing in massive contradictions.

A more cynical site would suggest that it's yet another example of Microsoft running Windows 7 into the ground and adding built in obsolescence to encourage quicker updates. But we're not that sort of site.

Its the patching to force secure boot that is the problem win 7 does not support secure boot
hence it borks systems and well microsofts answer is Cactus >your Asshole > insert

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Get a Windows 10 licence for free if you register on Windows Insider

If your wondering about the Microsoft Windows 10 being free for insiders here is a link with Microsoft explaining how that works:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/22/8...o-explain-who-really-gets-windows-10-for-free

If you are part of the insider program you will receive a free copy of the OS so long as you keep allowing it to update to test builds/betas that are not public. So essentially you are still testing the OS so you have the chance of running into a bug more than a normal copy not to mention the other attributes of the windows insider program.

Still not a bad deal overall for a free OS...