What version of Windows 10 are you running on your laptop/PC presently?

 You can find it in Settings/System. Go to the very bottom of this page and look up About.

There are issues in everything, and here is a link to resolved issues for the above version:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/resolved-issues-windows-10-21h1

Do you fail to see Windows Sandbox in Windows Features?

If you try to look for Windows Sandbox in the Windows Features box this is what you will find.

WindowsSandbox_02.jpg

But to enable Windows Sandbox you need this in the Windows Features.
You look through the internet and surf away there are various suggestions. But what matters is the Windows Version you have. You would assume, that since you have agreed for automatic updates everything is fine. That is not the case.

I found out that I was running Windows 10 Pro version 1803 and that was the real problem. I tried to update to the needed version 1903 or higher but I was not able to do it from the desktop.

I had to get the Windows 10 Update Assistant to install the higher version.

I finally installed the Windows 10 Update Assistant and ran the program.

It takes a while and the installation would require you to have nothing connected to the USB Ports. If they are connected to anything you will get an error which is easy to correct.

Now with the new version you will see the Windows Sandbox in Windows Features as shown.

That concludes the task of bringing the Windows Sandbox node to the Windows Features.

How do you install IIS on Windows 10?

As previously noted you need to enable IIS on Windows 10.

You can do this in Control Panel.

In Turn Windows fatures on or off. Place check marks as shown above. Vlick OK. It may take a while and IIS is turned on.

You can launch IIS from the search charm as shown.

When you click this, Internet Informatio Services Manager's screen opens as shown.

From Help you can find the version (10.0.17134.1) shown here.

You can look at the contents on your site (Default site) shown here. Rihgt now there is only one file (IISStart.htm and PNG file).

You can right click the htm file and browse as shown.

Your files (presently IISStart.htm and IISstart.png) are in the wwwroot folder.

How do you handle the 'Server execution failed' Windows Media Player error?

When you try to play a movie using Windows Media Player, or double click a movie file with Windows Media Player as your default, you will see this error.

Serverfailed_0.png

The reason may be that the Windows Movie Player process is still active. You can see this in the Task Manager as shown.

Serverfailed_1.png

Highlight this process in Task Manager and cclick End Process.

Now if you double click Windows Media Player or a .mp4 file you should see it starting.


The same kind of problems used to happen while opening a Mozilla Browser. I have not been using the browser recently.

How likely would I recommend Cortana?

Not very likely in the present state of mind. The explanation is in the image.

I am not the only one. Many have reported this problem and some observed that although you don't see the characters being typed into the search box they do get registered. Such was not in my case. The cursor stays put.

I could not repeat this behavior. All of a sudden I cannot type-in, but if I bring up the All Programs after some type it registers the text input.