- Jul 31, 2015
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I have Facebook, Netflix, Wikipeda..,etc setup as Google Chrome apps on my computer. These chrome apps were pinned to the start menu so they would appear as shortcuts on my full screen start menu. Each of these shortcuts had their own correct icon representing them.
I do this because the Facebook, Netflix and Wikipedia apps from the Windows Store do not work properly. They are slow, crash frequently or do not function at all. I have found that creating links to these sites as chrome apps works without issue.
Since the most recent update, all of the chrome app shortcuts now appear as a chrome icon, instead of their correct icons. I have tried un-pinning them, then re-pinning them, and I have also removed the chrome apps altogether and re-installing them, but I still cannot get the correct app icons to display. In the chrome apps folder they appear correctly, in the Start>all programs>chrome apps the icons appear correctly, and if I pin these to the taskbar, they show up with the correct icons.
Has anyone else experienced this? Have any suggestions?
Well, Ive been through the gamut of repair options for this.
Now, my computer cannot do a system restore, install updates or uninstall/reinstall the affected apps. The mail or calendar apps will not open and now the icons for these are blank.
In the Windows Store it tells me there is an update for the mail and calendar apps. However, when I try to install this update, I get an error "Code: 0x80070003" Research into this error code says it is a problem with windows update, but nothing specific.
If I pin Mail to the taskbar, it has an invisible button that when I hover over I get this :
@{microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_17.8241.407.85.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe?ms-resource://microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps/hxoutlookintl/AppManifest_MailDesktop_DisplayName}
I give up. Going back to Windows 7. It has been a constant battle with windows 10 since I installed it. I had everything working fine for about 1 week until the most recent update. Now, I have several relatives (mostly low-end, novice users at best.) whose computers are messed up (in similar various ways) because of this update, and they look to me for support.
I do this because the Facebook, Netflix and Wikipedia apps from the Windows Store do not work properly. They are slow, crash frequently or do not function at all. I have found that creating links to these sites as chrome apps works without issue.
Since the most recent update, all of the chrome app shortcuts now appear as a chrome icon, instead of their correct icons. I have tried un-pinning them, then re-pinning them, and I have also removed the chrome apps altogether and re-installing them, but I still cannot get the correct app icons to display. In the chrome apps folder they appear correctly, in the Start>all programs>chrome apps the icons appear correctly, and if I pin these to the taskbar, they show up with the correct icons.
Has anyone else experienced this? Have any suggestions?
Well, Ive been through the gamut of repair options for this.
Now, my computer cannot do a system restore, install updates or uninstall/reinstall the affected apps. The mail or calendar apps will not open and now the icons for these are blank.
In the Windows Store it tells me there is an update for the mail and calendar apps. However, when I try to install this update, I get an error "Code: 0x80070003" Research into this error code says it is a problem with windows update, but nothing specific.
If I pin Mail to the taskbar, it has an invisible button that when I hover over I get this :
@{microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_17.8241.407.85.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe?ms-resource://microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps/hxoutlookintl/AppManifest_MailDesktop_DisplayName}
I give up. Going back to Windows 7. It has been a constant battle with windows 10 since I installed it. I had everything working fine for about 1 week until the most recent update. Now, I have several relatives (mostly low-end, novice users at best.) whose computers are messed up (in similar various ways) because of this update, and they look to me for support.
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