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 My Win11 Pro machine somehow cannot install Affinity by Canvas. This is straight install from the website, as I picked Windows Personal, and it downloaded a MSIX file. The install went to 100%, after downloading 681MB, then errored out with this installer error: App installation failed with error message: AppxManifest.xml(52,6): error 0x80070005: Cannot register the Canva.Affinity_3.2.3.4646_x64__8a0j1tnjnt4a4 package because the following error was encountered while registering the windows.fileTypeAssociation extension: Access is denied. Try again and contact the package publisher if the problem persists. (0x80070005) I am the administrator but I was unable to assign "run as administrator" because this MSIX installer does NOT use permissions. I've retried multiple times, and I've even tried installing the Microsoft Store version. Neither worked.  Turns out the solution is extremely UN-obvious... Download the X86 Enterprise version, NOT the personal version.  This on...

Recently after a bit of registry cleaning, my desktop stopped launching games from Steam. I tried to troubleshoot this, and ended up spending HOURS chasing something that seems rather popular but nobody seem to have a proper solution. The symptoms are simple: all of the shortcuts on the desktop turned into the blank "white page" icons. When you right click it, it doesn't say what app to open it with. Its type is "Internet Shortcut (url).  Deleting it and recreating it from within Steam (gear icon // Create Desktop Shortcut) doesn't help. It seems the .URL handler is completely f-ed up. I tried reinstalling Steam, and Steam actually did delete all the old files and reinstalled its own files. No change.   So I go look for a registry fix... Except...  .url is NO LONGER A SUPPORTED file type in Windows 11. It's kept in as a backward compatibility setting only. So you have to search Win10 fixes.  So I found this fix via WinhelpOnline . Download the reg zip, unzip,...