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• Win10 1511 big problems with Universal apps

  Posted on November 14, 2015 at 12:10 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Just got this from CH:

  Now after the 1511 upgrade which finally arrived few hours ago with the .3 patch installed without any incident, I am experiencing failure of many Windows Apps, including Store App.

  This is exactly what happened on the other laptop which was on the Insider track.

  While I fixed that laptop and now I know how to do it by changing permissions in the relevant protected folders – the best way to do this is to enable the built-in administrator and use that one as it bypasses UAC – and running PowerShell scripts, I am wondering if this is a common issue with built 1511 and if it will fix itself at some stage.

  The actual problem:

  –          Some apps are not working at all, having some weird ‘@’ character in the name which was not there before. Things like People app and Calculator App and few others

  –          Most apps look normal, but would not launch. The Event Log show lack of permissions – access denied.

  The way I fixed this in the past, was to change permissions in 3 places, under Program Files\WindowsApps, Windows\SystemApps and ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository.

  Probably deleting all that is under ProgramData folder is the actual fix which is not mentioned anywhere else as far as I know as this deletes older versions of the current applications, or at least their representations in the user context. There is also a location under the user’s own profile. After that the PowerShell commands as documented by Microsoft should do the rest.

  Is this a known problem?

  I hit similar problems in earlier beta builds, but they worked themselves out after a day or two. It’s as if Microsoft rolled the improved versions of the apps out through the Windows Store, and they were installed automatically.

  I haven’t heard of this happening with v 1511, however. Anybody out there seen something similar?

  Windows News Version 1511 problems