Recent content by VeganWithaYoYo

Ah! 20 minutes after asking I finally found the problem. Windows Media Player was unchecked in "Program Access and Computer Defaults." Once I checked it, all was okay again. Windows Media Player - Restore or Remove from Default Programs

Just throwing this out there: I've built a lot of my own PCs, but last Fall I needed a new computer and I wanted it to have a real warranty (I've had a few too many individual components go bad on me, and having to send them to different places to replace is a pain. Don't get me started on...

I'm in the midst of a weeks-long project to get every media type I can think of associated with the program that I prefer for opening it. (Let's just say it's tedious and get to the problem I'm having!) I've been using the windows "Default Programs" program, as well as "right click-->open with"...

Yeah, I've found that when I put shortcuts in manually I often have to restart Windows entirely to get manually-made shortcuts to show up in Apps. Still Googling around to see if anyone else has figured this out. Worst case scenario I'm just going to put all the things I don't want in "Apps" in...

AlphaNumeric, those are indeed the folders where the shortcuts in the Apps folder are stored. I've found a few things from organizing my Apps folder over the past few weeks: 1. If a shortcut is hidden, it won't show up in Apps or the Start Screen. If a folder is hidden, none of its contents in...

Zaref, that's a good-looking Start Screen, but unfortunately I'm not sure that it shows tiles that don't also show up in "apps." Am I missing something? Alternate version of the question: is there a way to hide things in Apps but have them still show up as tiles on the Start Screen?

Right, I've definitely found that the Start Screen and Apps folder are linked rather than wholly separate. Has no one figured out a way to supercede the link?

I'm trying to set up the cleanest interface I possibly can on my Windows 8.1 PC, and I've spent a lot of time cleaning up my Apps folder so that only useful things are displayed, and they're in an order that's helpful to me. I'm now trying to set up my Start Screen, and there are some things...