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.
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.
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.
Microsoft offers the HEVC Video Extension necessary to play videos from iPhone users on their store, but they often try to charge a dollar for it. Just $0.99, in fact! In many cases, I don’t mind spending a dollar, and I encourage others to do the same. But sometimes you’re just in a pinch and you don’t have your credit card on file, or you aren’t logged in to your normal Microsoft account and it’s just a pain.
Have no fear! Microsoft also provides a link in the Microsoft store where you can download the HEVC Video Extension completely free of charge.
Why are there two, and why does this link exist?
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