ThePhone Link experience starts on your Windows PC and the Phone Link . From your PC, you can connect to select Android, Samsung, HONOR, OPPO, and ASUS devices with the Link to Windows app that's either preinstalled on your device or that you can download from the Google Play or Samsung Galaxy Store.
Install or open the Link to Windows mobile app on your Android device. To do this, open a web browser on your Android device and then enter the link that's displayed on your PC (
www.aka.ms/yourpc).
Phone Link will be available by default on most PCs running Windows 10 or Windows 11. If it is not installed, you can install it through the Settings on your PC. After installation, your Phone Link will receive regular updates.
Use your favorite apps, respond to texts, make calls, view photos, and more in the Phone Link . After approving permissions to allow access to your phone, you can use your favorite apps, respond to texts, make calls, view photos, and more on your Windows PC. If you allow syncing contacts from your phone with your Microsoft account, you can enjoy seamless access to your phone-synced contact data on other Microsoft apps and services.
You will be presented with a list of your linked Android devices under your Microsoft account. If no phones are linked, a QR code will be displayed for you to scan with your Android device and proceed with pairing your device to Phone Link
The Android 13 requirement is to approve your notifications on your Android device. You can do it during the pairing process or go to System Settings > Apps > Link to Windows> Notifications on your Android devices and toggle on the permissions.
Notification permission allows data transfer and notification sending between your devices, which lays the foundation for cross-device features. By giving permissions, you can use your Android device on your PC with phone photo management, notification management and App usage (where it is supported).
Once your device is successfully linked to your PC, Use as connected camera feature is toggled on, it will appear as an available camera option in Windows Settings and other camera applications. Simply select your mobile device from the dropdown menu to access and utilize its camera functionality seamlessly.
This link between your iPhone and PC gives you instant access to many things you love. Read and reply to text messages with ease, make and receive calls, and manage your iPhone notifications right on your PC.
After successfully pairing your device via Bluetooth, you will need to enable these three settings on your iPhone in order to access all available features. Some features require multiple permissions in order to be fully functional.
If you remove your iPhone from Bluetooth settings in Windows, Phone Link will no longer sync your calls, messages, and notifications. To resume using your iPhone with Phone Link follow these steps before re-pairing:
Who has time to switch back and forth between two devices constantly? With your Windows 10 or 11 PC, you won't have to because you can connect your Galaxy phone and computer for seamless multitasking using Phone Link and Link to Windows. Easily mirror your phone's screen, view notifications, transfer files and media, and respond to messages and calls. You can also use your favorite Microsoft apps on your phone, sync files between both devices, and combine your calendars.
If you have a newer Galaxy phone, it will have the Link to Windows feature built right in, which lets you connect your phone to your computer. However, you can also download it from the Play Store if it's not integrated into your phone.
Next, make sure your Windows 10 or 11 PC has the Phone Link app installed. It should come preinstalled on most models; you can check using this link:
www.aka.ms/linkphone. If it's not installed, you can download the app from the Microsoft Store.
It seems Dropbox just did a significant automatic update on my Windows laptop. I have now lost the option to right click on a file in Windows Explorer then select Dropbox> Copy Dropbox link. The only option now showing under the Dropbox submenu is "Send a copy (business)". I use the copy Dropbox link option multiple times a day and wondering if there is a way to get that option back. My current workaround is to login to the Browser version and get the link from there but that's many extra steps and slows me down. Here's a video: [removed]
Judy, we received the same issue after the update that was kind of forced on us. We found that deleting and reinstalling the Dropbox application resolved the issue. Dropbox were not helpful in their responses to my ticket and erased a video we made showing the problem without bothering to watch it.
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I am using Windows 11 version 22H2. The dropbox version is 184.4.6543. I can't get a screenshot with the options showing as it doesn't capture the popup screens. I do show those options in the original video I shared with the ticket though. Here it is again: [removed]
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The pop up screen I'm referring to is the options when you right click on the file you want to share. I had to reinstall Dropbox and that resolved the issue. The now corrected popup has a "Dropbox" option and the suboptions of that are:
At the same time this week you've rolled out pointless changes that change the exising functionality we rely on. Most notable is that the file path of our files has changed with everything now being in a "[Removed as per Community Guidelines]" subfolder. Why you felt the need to change the existing setup rather than provide new options is beyond me. We are now evaluating your product and expect to move to OneDrive for free in the coming months. We've been a business customer for around 10 years.
I just upgraded to Dropbox Business when I got a new PC about a month ago. Now when I try to share through my PC a link to a file in that is in Dropbox, I only get the option to Transfer the file. I see no option to share the link. My purpose is to make the file/folder viewable. I don't want to transfer a copy of the files/folders. Is there a setting I am missing? Thanks!
.a is the extension generally used for static library on Unix. .a files are generated with the --out-implib option of GNU ld. It is said to be an "import library", fair enough. The question is then "What good is an import library to me if I don't need it when linking ?"
.lib is the extension used for static library on Windows, and according to wikipedia, is also used as "import library" under windows, so I strongly suspect they're just another name for what the binutils call .a files. True/false ?
Also, I read here that using .def files is an alternative to manually specifying exports in the source file (which I did). But I also remember reading (cannot find reference back) .def file supply an index (ordinal) into the exported symbols, allowing for faster run-time loading. Is that so ?
Static libraries on Linux have the .a file extension. Static libraries on Windows have the .lib file extension. Dynamic libraries on Windows have the .dll extension; in order to link against a DLL, an import library is required. The import library is a static library. It contains the code required to load the DLL. Now you're using GCC (not cl.exe) to compile on Windows. GCC has another file extension convention for import libraries, it "should be called *.dll.a or *.a", as explained in the doc for the --out-implib you referred to.
A DLL may have functions that are exported and functions that are not exported. An import library has to know which functions are exported and which aren't. One of the means of telling it is a DEF file.
When building the DLL, the linker uses the .def file to create an export (.exp) file and an import library (.lib) file. The linker then uses the export file to build the DLL file. Executables that implicitly link to the DLL link to the import library when they are built. -- MSDN: Exporting from a DLL Using DEF Files
This feature is gradually rolling out to the Windows Insider community and available only for Android users on Windows 11 who are already connected via Phone Link. iOS support will be coming at a later date. This experience can be managed via Settings > Personalization > Start (support link).
I want to copy just the symbolic link (not the target) to a Windows machine and then copy this symbolic link from Windows machine back to some other Linux machine and symbolic link should continue to work.
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