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.

Facebook Video CHAT on Windows 8.1 (and Windows RT ??)

If you use Windows 8.1 and/or Windows 8.1 RT with IE 11 or Chrome, you probably have noticed that the little video icon is not shown on Facebook Chat window, so you just can't call someone with video.

So many people have been complained on Forums, including the Microsoft oficial one and the problem was not fixed so far (24/01/2014).

It's unacceptable and I can't understand why Microsoft didn't fix these so important problem.

But there is a solution for those using Windows 8.1 (if you are looking for a solution on Windows RT, check my comments in the end of this post).

The solution is not definitive and you have to do it everytime you run IE or Chrome.

IE SOLUTION

You must configurate IE 11 to run as it was IE 10. Below is the simple steps you must follow:

1. Run IE 11

2. Press F12 or Click on the Tools Menu, item "F12 Development Tools"

3. If you did ir right, The Development Tools Windows was opened in the botton of your IE11. On left, there are several F12 Icons, scrool to botton to select the last icon (Emulation)

4. Now, on item "User Agent String", select IE 10

5. Close the F12 Development Tools Windows (F12 again or [X])

6. NOW, you will see the small video icon on Facebook Chat Windows. Click on it and Facebook Page will ask to install the Chat Video Add-in (a .exe file) and after installed it will be ready to use.

7. Everytime that the small video icon is not shown, you wil have to go to F12 Tools and select IE10 Agent String


Windows RT

Therefore IE11 on Windows RT has the same F12 Tools, the Facebook Video Chat will NEVER work because Facebook needs to install a ".exe" program/Add-In and Windows RT doesn't run EXE files made for desktop computers.

To work, Facebook will need to add the video chat feature on it's Facebook Apps. I don't believe it will come soon.

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