What do you have as filetype defaults for Firefox? If I recall correctly, the first time I went to this url, I got a pop-up about which program to use. I did not give it any thought and selected firefox. After that I ended up with the the tab loop. windows store app doesn't open.
I narrowed it down to Noscript. If I allow onestore.ms, Firefox will tab loop and Store App does not start. If it is blocked, everything is okay, but the Store App won't start either. Not sure what to make of this. I don't think Noscript is the problem though. It actually fixes the problem by blocking onsstore.ms. The problem is most likely in the prefs.js I guess this is getting OT now. I need to find a better thread for this.
ImageViewer loaded by dllhost has been removed, only yaml app available, found a way to restore??? dumped registry on windows 7: Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}] "AppID"="{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}\InProcServer32] @=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\ 00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,\ 68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,\ 00,68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,\ 6c,00,6c,00,00,00 "ThreadingModel"="Apartment" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}] "AppID"="{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}\InProcServer32] @=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\ 00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,\ 68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,\ 00,68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,\ 6c,00,6c,00,00,00 "ThreadingModel"="Apartment" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}] "AppID"="{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{76D0CB12-7604-4048-B83C-1005C7DDC503}\InProcServer32] @=hex(2):25,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,\ 00,73,00,25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,\ 68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,\ 00,68,00,6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,\ 6c,00,6c,00,00,00 "ThreadingModel"="Apartment" Code: C:\Program Files\Windows Photo Viewer>regsvr32 PhotoViewer.dll can be loaded but old viewer still not an option update: for .tif filetype the viewer still works. okay, they removed support for anything else:
Those cheesy modern Office Mobile versions of Excel, Word and PowerPoint have gone from free to paid now. You need to have a 365 account to edit/save documents now. This gave me a good laugh today.
I have Win10 Ent b10240 x64 installed, just to get a feel for it and see what things changed, improved and where settings got moved to. I'm using a local account, not an MS account. Yes, I know certain features which require syncing necessitate an MS account, but for now I don't really need that. I'm the kinda guy who likes to be in control of my PC's hardware and software. I like adjusting & tweaking the OS to my needs, getting rid of "extra fat" and block "unnecessary evil". I have played with all the settings in Control Panel, GPEDIT.MSC, Task Manager, Services, RegEdit, CMD, etc. I gotta be honest here and say - I really don't like this OS. I feel as if administrative power has been taken away from me, and someone else has made certain decisions for me. Too much information is being sent to MS, and too many settings need to be changed in order to change that. Windows Update has a mind of its own, and even after I tried to change it to "Notify Only", it still does some things automatically. Being an Enterprise version, this OS should actually be the most comfortable to manage and own. Maybe so, but it really isn't compared to, say, Windows 7. I don't even wanna know what happens in "lower" versions. MS are doing so many mistakes, it's just unbearable anymore. Instead of making a better font manager, instead of giving us a system-wide "as you type" search (like Everything or HDDB), instead of adding DX12 to previous versions of Windows...what do they do? Collect more information than ever, just like Google, FaceBook and others are doing. And that Cortana assistant is just another way for them to collect even more information on you. I have skipped Win8 and Win8.1 altogether...and for the foreseeable future, I'm probably going to stick to the "ancient" Windows 7. Rant off.