APC_Australia_Issue_442_June_2017

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WINDOWS
MOVE APPS TO ANOTHER DRIVE
My Pavilion x360 laptop only has 32GB of
onboard storage and I’ve run out of room.
Is it possible to move apps across to a
microSD card I’ve added to it?
John Craggs
Moving apps can be a tricky business
— it’s easier with Windows Store apps,
but it can also be done (with care) with
desktop programs, too. As always, take
a full backup before embarking on this
procedure — just in case — then follow
these instructions:
1
To move Windows Store apps,
click ‘Start > Settings > System >
Apps & features’. Sort the list by size to
target the largest apps first. Click an
app — if there’s a ‘Move’ button, you can
use this to move the app to your
microSD card with a couple of clicks.
2
You can also force future
Windows Store installs to go to
your microSD card by default. Navigate
to the Storage section and tap ‘New
apps will save to:’ to select your
microSD card. Note this doesn’t affect
traditional desktop programs.
3
If your internal storage and your
microSD card are NTFSformatted,
you can move desktop apps
without having to reinstall them.
Download and extract Steam Mover
“We’re pleased to report that Microsoft
has issued a fix for the problem.”
A Windows update should have fixes any issues
users were having with Logitech webcam software.
from www.traynier.com and right-click
it and choose ‘Run as administrator’.
Click ‘...’ under ‘Steam Apps
4
Common Folder’ and select
C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files
(x86). Click ‘...’ under ‘Alternative
Folder’ to select a folder on your
microSD card. Now ‘Ctrl-click’ each
app you want to move and click ‘>’
to move them.
Nick Peers
HARDWARE
LOGITECH WEBCAM WON’T WORK
I recently installed an update to Windows
10, but now my Logitech C270 webcam
won’t work — whenever I attempt to launch
the software, it crashes with an error
message telling that ‘Launcher_main.exe
has stopped working’. I’ve tried uninstalling
and reinstalling the driver software,
but that doesn’t seem to help.
William James
This problem actually arose after
the Windows 10 Anniversary Update
dropped support for certain types of
compressed webcam streams (MJPG
and H.264). However, since speaking
to William, we’re pleased to report
that Microsoft has issued a fix for
the problem.
Mayank Sharma
Despite the name, the clever Steam Mover program
will let you move installed apps and games that
aren’t associated with Steam, too.
WINDOWS
SET UP PC FOR MULTI-PURPOSE
COMPUTING
I have a long history of way too many
programs being installed on my computers,
and this obviously makes them particularly
slow and buggy. In general, these programs
fall into three or four categories: work,
writing, graphics and play. I’m thinking of
making an ISO file of the basic computer,
then creating separate ISO files for each
category of use, switching between them
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