Google Chrome eating the Windows resources

If you use Google Chrome and found your system is very slow, it may related to the Chrome.  Google Chrome will leave a list of process running in the background even you are not using it, and they are memory and network intensive. It has a little icon on the system tray (next to the system clock), you will need to close the Google Chrome from the tray to free up its memory and process.

One click to shutdown/restart/logout from Windows 8

It is quite annoying to shutdown or reboot the Windows 8, specially when configured the power button to do nothing, here is how to create a tile on Windows 8 Start UI for Shut down, restart or logout,

1. On the desktop, right click to create a new shortcut
2. Type the following on the "type the location of the item" field
• Shutdown: shutdown /s /t 0
• Restart: shutdown /r /t 0
• Logout: shutdown /l /t 0
3. Provide the name for the shortcut and click OK
4. Select the shortcut, right click to Properties, and Change Icon
5. Select the icon for the shortcut, click OK
6. Right click and select Pin to Start Menu

Something happened and this app couldn't be installed. Please try again. Error code:0x80200013

Problem:

Error when try to install a Windows Store app with error code 0x80200013.

When try to install multiple apps, this normally happened to one Windows Store app only, and not specific to any Windows Store app. 

Fix:

• select multiple apps to install from Your Apps list
• click on installing apps
• select one of the Windows app and pause it
• all other windows store apps should now start installing, or select the one with error and click Try again
• resume the one paused

failure to install apps from store Error code 0x8024402c

Problem:

When try to install apps from Windows Store, it may have this error if you are using proxy to connect to internet.

Fix:

Run the following command with administrators rights to define the proxy settings to the winhttp service,

> netsh winhttp set proxy <proxy server>:<port>

or import from IE

> netsh winhttp import proxy source=ie

applocker error when creating policy for packaged app (SrpUxSnapIn.dll)

Problem:
When creating a new packaged app rule, there is option to select the method how to define the policy on the publisher page, but you may found the following error when click on the select button for Use an installed packaged app as a reference as following,

Fix:
You will need to add your login account into the Local Administrators group from the Windows 8 system, re-login and launch gpmc again.