TL;DR : If your Windows XP installation on VirtualBox is extremely slow, try updating the VirtualBox version. If the guest addition cannot be installed normally, try to turn on 3D acceleration, increase video memory, and turn off the network.

In order to use the "extremely advanced" college entrance examination registration system developed in 2003 in our province, we need to run Windows XP in the virtual machine and then open IE6.

*In fact, the system runs normally on modern browsers, but the connected junk trading system of Agricultural Bank of China does not work on modern browsers, so the whole Windows XP has to be followed by Internet Explorer.

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Get on the train

On February 9, I suddenly received a message that it was a promotional activity of Microsoft Education Mall. The official 8+128 version of the Surface Go generation is only 1169 yuan.

In fact, there was no desire to buy at the beginning. Generally speaking, the tablet with a price of about 1000 yuan is out of our consideration (brand new):

Tablets at this price generally shrink as they can, with poor appearance and feel, barely viewable screen parameters, and storage particles slower than your mobile phone. All of these will lead to a poor use experience. It is better not to buy.

At first, I thought the same way, but I checked the parameters. After all, it was a surface, not a surface, and the original price was more than 3000 yuan.

After checking, it's really delicious. For us, we don't need the high performance of the tablet. After all, what we use most is to watch videos and games. The screen must be good, and the memory and hard disk should not be too stretched.

The high configuration version of Surface Go (8+128) has 8G LPDDR3 RAM, which is enough for today's Win10 in terms of lightweight experience. It is also a 128G SATA SSD, much better than the 4+64 eMMC 5.1.

The processor is a gold medal Pentium 4415Y, 2-core 4-wire 1.6Ghz, 2M L3 cache, TDP 6W， It's enough to use it in a light way. No one really wants to run VS2019 on such a small computer.

Moreover, the screen parameters are very pleasing, rounding 1080p, 400 nits brightness, 100% sRGB color gamut coverage, and the average $ Delta E_ {2000} $1.3. Instantly felt that there was no electronic garbage.

This is very cost-effective. Place an order immediately, and Microsoft will lose blood and make money (fog

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Every time you use Windows, you can always encounter some strange problems. What's more, every time you use Windows, strange problems are different, and you can't find problems quickly.

Let's talk about HEIC first, HEIC means H igh E fficiency I mage C oding， Efficient image coding. It is now called HEIF（ H igh E fficiency I mage F ile F ormat）， Efficient image file format.

HEIF is a file format developed by MEPG, which is widely used in smart phone image storage today. The features of HEIF can't be described in more detail, so we can get to the point directly.

In Windows 10 version 1803, Microsoft added support for HEIF images, but this support does not include a decoder, but a hyperlink:

When you open the HEIF file, the default image app will take you to the Windows Store to install a HEIF image decoder 。 (Windows also handles RAW images in this way.)

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Do you remember the last article that we installed Windows Terminal, and the terminal suddenly reported an error when it was used.

No applicable licenses found

I thought it was a Choco problem. It was not solved after uninstalling and reinstalling, or reinstalling from the Windows Store.

What's more, it seems that some people on the Chinese Internet have also raised this problem, but no solution has been found. A few questions were about Office, and the answers were basically "uninstalled and reinstalled" (MicroSoft forum).

Because I didn't know what the original English of the error was, I put it on hold for a long time.

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TL; DR

Execute in PowerShell (Administrator)

 Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient). DownloadString(' https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 ')) choco install microsoft-windows-terminal

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