Windows 10: Top Apps

One of my PC's decided to wipe itself a few days ago so I reinstalled the very latest version of Win 10 Home.

One thing that interested me was the new search.

For me at least all the changes are pointless. It smacks tremendously of a bunch of managers trying to come up with ways to change something when it didn't need changing. I actually still prefer the search we had in very old versions of windows before indexing was introduced, but hey, heaven forbid that Microsoft would listen to customers. All they needed to do was add indexing to speed it up, but of course they completely changed the way it functioned in File Explorer. Anyway, back to the latest incarnation, I don't much care about the changes except that Top Apps is just ridiculous. A huge portion of my screen is taken up by something I don't want and really can't see any point in at all. But seems there is no way to disable it. I mean most of the features I managed to disable, but Top Apps is where I fail. I can't find a way to disable it. Has anyone found a way yet?

:)

 

How to pin app shortcut to desk top?

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to follow below steps to change pin the apps on the desktop screen and check if it helps.

Step 1: I suggest you to perform the below steps to add the apps on desktop.

• Click on the “Start button” and locate the App that you want to pin to Desktop.
• Right click on the “App” and click on “More options”.
• Then click on “Open File location” and right click on the app, click on “Send to” option.
• Then select “Desktop (Create shortcut)”.
• Go to “Desktop” and check whether the app is located or not.

Or Step 2: To add shortcuts to the desktop

• Press and hold or right-click the desktop, tap or click New, and then tap or click Shortcut.
• Enter the location of the item or tap or click Browse to find the item in File Explorer.

Hope this information is helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.


Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Paul Thurrott: Here are the Top User Requests for Windows


The start button color? I agree with Paul - if this is the top 10 list, then Win10 is in great shape.

Other Paul Thurrott pages:

• Next Steps for Windows 10
• Windows 10 Tip: Master New Keyboard Shortcuts

Nothing about Start menu text size here though

• Windows 10 Tip: Customize the Start Menu