Windows: This week’s featured Windows app isn’t really an app per se, but it’s an incredibly useful extension you’ll want to grab from the Windows Store if you have any kind of device—cough Apple cough—that shoots and stores .HEIC images.

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While you can certainly use free third-party apps to convert the HEIC files that your brand-new iPhone creates—if you’re dropping them on your Windows machine for editing or storing—you can’t view these files naturally in Windows (using the Photos app, for example). It’s an annoying problem that Microsoft has an equally annoying solution for.

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Though the company offers an extension in the Windows Store that you can download and install to view .HEIF files, and it’s free, it won’t work any magic for .HEIC files, the fancy container Apple started using in iOS 11.

As Microsoft puts it:

“Images that are stored in HEIF files that have the .heic file extension are compressed using the HEVC format. Such files require the HEVC Video Extensions package to be installed as well. If the HEVC Video Extensions package is not installed, the HEIF Image Extension will not be able to read or write .heic files.”

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Said “HEVC Video Extensions” is also available in the Windows Store, but it will cost you $1. I’m not sure why Microsoft needs that money, especially when this sounds like it should just be a free, tiny Windows update, but there you go. Thankfully, there’s a workaround you can use to save your Washington.

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Instead of buying the HEVC Video Extensions item from the Windows Store, grab this instead: “HEVC Video Extensions from Device Manufacturer.”

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It’s also authored by “Microsoft Corporation,” but it sounds like the kind of extension that comes preinstalled on a device rather than something Microsoft actually wants you to find and download. Oops.

Regardless, installing the free, awkwardly named extension will accomplish the same thing as the $1 one—you’ll be able to view HEIC files directly in Photos (or HEVC files in Media Player, presumably). You still won’t be able to edit them in, say, Photoshop, but it’s something. Now, what to do with your extra $1.. Heartless hindi movie kickass torrent download.

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