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Month: August 2018

  • Google Play Music Manager says “MSVCP120.dll was not found”

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    After an update to Windows 10, Google Play Music Manager started giving this error on startup: “The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP120.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem” Well, reinstalling didn’t fix it. The dll mentioned does exist in the Windows system32 folder, but it turns out that it is…

  • BBC 4.1 AI TV

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    Intriguing advert on BBC Four suggesting a two night experiment into AI. I could only find this article about it, which suggests artificial intelligence and machine learning could be used to choose programmes from the BBC archive to schedule a couple of evenings worth of shows on BBC Four. Which sounds a bit underwhelming. Hopefully…

  • MIUI WhatsApp and Gmail notifications

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    In MIUI update to 9.6.1.0 on my Mi5 phone, the notification LED light stopped working for some of the key apps. Such as calendar, Gmail and WhatsApp. I could not find any way to resolve this, and saw other reports of it as well for others running Oreo-based versions of MIUI. Anyway, last night I…

  • Microsoft Next Lock Screen on MIUI 9.6 and other Oreo-based phones

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    MIUI 9.6.1 update on my Xiaomi Mi5 phone brought the Android version up to 8.0 Oreo. The Microsoft “Next” lock screen app no longer works, even after double checking all the relevant permissions – allow overlay drawing / allow popups etc. The only way to make it appear is to disable the system screen lock…