Closing apps completely. What's the difference ?

Are you used to close your apps swiping them from top to botton ? Well, you probably do it all the time, but when you do it quickly, the apps is not totally closed.

In fact, it remains in the memory almost like "sleeping", so it loads much quicker when you click to run it again later.

It's a cool feature to improve performance and works great, BUT....

Sometimes, applications like Windows Store, Skydrive, Bing News and other have a misbehavior for some reason we don't know. 

Example: Windows Store shows there are apps to be updated on its tile on Windows Start, but when you click on it, it shows NO apps to be updated.

Hot to fix it ? Just close Windows Store apps "completely: and runs it again.

How to close an apps completely ?

Swipe it from top to down as you usually do but HOLD it in the bottom for two seconds before you release your finger from the touch screen.

You will see that the apps small windows image twist/turn while you hold your finger on the screen. Now your apps is closed !

You can solve many apps misbehavior closing them totally and re-running it.
You will perceive that running it again after a completely close will take a little bit longer that when you do a quick apps close.

Troubleshooting Skydrive on Windows RT 8.1 - Sync Problems

So many Windows RT and Windows users still complaining about sync problems on Skydrive after more than an year of Windows RT devices were launched.

The problems are not new and Microsoft seems to be "blind" to users complaints.

I'm not different to thousands of users having this problem.

If you look for a solution on Microsoft community and Support Forums, you will take hours to find a link to a troubleshooter application for Windows RT 8.1 (easier to find for Windows 8.1). So, after I found it, I decide to make it available here:

TROUBLESHOOTING SKYDRIVE 

On the page of the link below, click in the linked word "troubleshooter" under the paragraph "Note" and you will download a (.cab) file. RUN IT !

>>>>   http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/skydrive/folder-file-sync-error-faq 

Here is what you will see on the web page clicking on the link above.

Note

• For help with SkyDrive in Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1, see SkyDrive: FAQ, or run the troubleshooter.

ps: there's no guarantee that running this (.cab) file, your problems will be solved, but it worth to try.

Outlook 2013 RT - How to synchronize your Contacts, Appointments, Tasks and eMails

Windows 8.1 RT Preview brought Outlook 2013 RT to Surface RT and other Windows RT Tablets.

Many people was asking for Outlook and complaining about mail apps. I confess that afther the huge upgrade on mail apps, I was no missing Outlook that much. The only problem for me was about People apps having just some basic information and could not synchronize all contacts data from your live.com/outlook/exchange account.

Well, now that Outlook is available, learn hot to synch the data with other devices/Windows notebooks/Windows Phone.

1) On Outlook, go to "Account Settings"

Account Settings

2) Create a NEW account

create new account

 3) Choose to set the account manually

create account manually

 4) Choose Outlook / Exchange account



Outlook / Exchange account

5) Fill the account information with your live.com/Outlook.com/Exchange user name and password and write "m.hotmail.com"  on server name.

Warning: 1) Some users are complaining about contacts were not full synchronized, stoping after about 300 contacts, but for me it worked fine with 530 contacts
2) Check if the contact and appointment folders are set OK, if you have more than one, it will synchronize only the HOTMAIL account data (live.com)
3) Use Send/Receive to make Outlook sync after edit any contact, task or appointment information.