{"id":287064,"date":"2018-11-27T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T07:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=287064"},"modified":"2018-11-27T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T07:49:38","slug":"windows-media-player-win32-apps-broken-by-windows-10-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/287064-windows-media-player-win32-apps-broken-by-windows-10-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows Media Player, Win32 apps broken by Windows 10 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the latest Windows 10 update, users may not be able to use the seek bar in Windows Media Player, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/11\/latest-windows-10-update-breaks-windows-media-player-win32-apps-in-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>ArsTechnica<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is aware of the issue, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4467708\/windows-10-update-kb4467708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>and said<\/strong><\/a> it &#8220;is working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, certain users cannot set Win32 tools including Notepad to be the default program for certain file types.<\/p>\n<p>While Microsoft said that &#8220;trying again&#8221; can fix the issue, it is working on a more complete solution &#8211; which is expected to be released in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Windows updates have been riddled with bugs and issues of late.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft had to <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/279415-why-windows-10-october-update-deleted-user-files.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>halt the release<\/strong><\/a> of a previous major update due to reported data loss for many users.<\/p>\n<p>Since the update was relaunched, it has been blocked for users who run iCloud for Windows 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/285346-apple-and-microsoft-fixing-serious-icloud-bug.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>due to issues<\/strong><\/a> users have faced regarding the syncing of files.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/287046-apple-regains-most-valuable-company-title-over-microsoft.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple regains most valuable company title over Microsoft<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is aware of the issue, and said it &#8220;is working on a resolution and will provide an update in an upcoming release&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[51725,123,46575],"class_list":["post-287064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-bugs-after-windows-update","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-media-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287074,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287064\/revisions\/287074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}