How to fix Pending Update of Snap-Store, Close the App to Avoid Disruption

I have a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu Linux that I use for testing purposes, but it recently started popping up this message saying “Pending Update of Snap-Store, Close the App to Avoid Disruption.”

No matter what I thought I closed correctly or how many times I rebooted the VM, the error message still came back.

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What’s the big deal with REBOOTING my computer, anyway?

In my personal life, I regularly have people come up to me and ask “Why does my IT guy always tell me to reboot before calling him?” My reply, often times, is simply: because it works.

Just SOME of the tasks your computer is running at any given moment
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Windows 10 / 11 HEIC / HEIF Image Extensions for Free

These days, many phones, in particular iPhones, will shoot photographs in raw or in High Efficiency Image File formats. But when those files are emailed to Windows computers, sometimes they just can’t be easily opened.

Installing this free extension from Microsoft should allow your computer to open these files natively in the Windows “Photos” app.

This goes hand-in-hand with the Free HEVC extension for playing videos.