Re: Windows 10 Taskbar Behavior

On 9/25/2015 3:36 PM, David Vanderschel wrote:
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> On 9/25/2015 1:59 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Btw, which Emacs version is that? 
>
> 24.5.1 (latest release I found this week at gnu.org)
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> On 9/25/2015 2:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 21:59:14 +0300
>>> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>
>>> Also, can you try adding to the Emacs manifest file this entry, which
>>> says we support Windows 10, and see if that perhaps fixes the problem?
>>>
>>>          <!-- Windows 10 -->
>>>          <supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}"/>
>> Actually, I see that we embed the manifest into the executable, so an
>> external manifest cannot override it.  But perhaps you could try
>> rebuilding Emacs after updating the manifest?  (Sorry, I don't have
>> access to Windows 10 to see if this change in the manifest solves your
>> problem.)
> The machine is a very low powered notebook (HP Stream 11) with little 
> bulk memory, so I am not really up to trying to build Emacs on it. 

I just want to point out that it's not necessary to rebuild Emacs in 
order to change the embedded manifest.  You just need the tools and the 
target executable.  You can extract the current manifest to a text 
file.  After changing or adding what you want to the text file, you can 
update the embedded manifest in the target executable.

Something like:

mt -inputresource:emacs.exe;#1 -out:extracted.manifest
... edit extracted.manifest ...
mt -updateresource:emacs.exe;#1 -manifest extracted.manifest

Note that the syntax of mt is inconsistent w.r.t. whether there is a 
space or colon after the option.  See the docs for details.

(Sorry, but I have no idea whether adding Windows 10 as a supported OS 
will help with the problem.)

Hope this helps,
Mark