Saturday, June 17, 2023

Windows Phone Link App

 I like Phone Link on Samsung phones. I bought a new phone and could not get the app to set up the new device. I uninstalled the Windows app and redownloaded from the miserable Windows Store.

Open PowerShell as admin
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.YourPhone -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

Now go to store and download Phone Link app

If Store won't open try resetting time on Windows.
I just turned off automatic time and turn it on again and then sync.
It worked.

In an unrelated observation I noticed the automatic time zone was greyed out. I use recommended settings in O&O Shutup and it disables location tracking. If you do a search within O&O for "location" and reverse those settings you can turn on automatic time zone. This was not necessary to use Phone Link but might come in handy for traveling laptops.

Updating Windows 10 22H2 Caution with Flyby11

 I didn't notice the download default was Windows 11 25H2 and not 24H2 I had done so many of these that I didn't even think about it...