Thursday, March 3, 2016

Metro bashing (again)

So Windows 8 has these terrible full screen Metro apps that is supposed to be "Modern". Terrible terrible full screen crap. When I had Windows 8, these use to just boom, close for no reason whatsoever, but restarting them generally will bring it back to action.

Upgraded to Windows 10. Metro apps no longer go full screen. Now that's good. And they don't crash anymore. They still suck at least they don't crash for a long while.

Minesweeper. boom. gone. Solitare? gone. Chess Titan? gone.

But Windows 10 came with the extremely popular Candy Crush Saga! This isn't just look for match as in Bejeweled. It is a lot more challenging and yes, addictive if you get started. It requires both luck and some thinking as you have limited moves to get rid of those candies covered by sticky jelly.

Alas, after days of playing to reach past level 100. Boom. This Metro app stops working. No error messages. No, don't blame Candy Crush. It isn't the culprit.

Not just this Metro app. Most other Metro apps such as News that worked stopped working also in such COWARDLY WAY. No error messages. Things closed right away. Metro apps aren't even in c:\program files.

Apparently I am not the only one having this issue.

Ideas from the web include:
1) Run some Power Shell script to re-register the apps. See here. Nope didn't help
2)

sfc /scannow
See here. Nope. didn't help either. It just says it can't fix it and tell me to look at some idiot tells-you-nothing log.

I thought my bashing of Metro ended with Windows 10. Nope.

Microsoft: This. is. RIDICULOUS.

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