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The parent comment is (slightly obtusely) talking about "UWP Apps", which are installed from the store and have mobile-style "sandboxing". Normal Win32 applications can of course use SetWindowsHookEx() and the DirectDraw screen functions to take over your screen.


> The parent comment is (slightly obtusely) talking about "UWP Apps", which are installed from the store and have mobile-style "sandboxing".

And if he is, that's an absolutely academical points as 99% of all Windows-users runs zero applications from the store.

Nothing like an imaginary straw-man argument on the internet, eh? :)




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