Windows 8.1 - apps close immediately after opening

Ran into this issue yesterday- Surface Pro Win 8.1 .  Just !amazing! how fragile the plumbing is.

Behaviour :

  Account connected to MsLive  - none of the metro apps worked ( including store and settings)

  Local account - all apps worked.  Had to run behind a lot of red herrings.

Fix: Here is what I did

   1.  re-registering  system apps (  Store , etc) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/notime/archive/2013/10/21/10458031.aspx

     2. uninstall and  re installing apps

     I am sure there is a better option to recover by restoring older files - but I am not sure if it would have fixed this particular issue.

  

Seq of events  :

1. few Windows updates  :

         Hardware Update - ‎12/‎10/‎2013 ,( Again !!! )

         Microsoft - Keyboard - Surface Touch\type Cover Filter Device

2. Failed resume from hibernate ( old problem no solution yet! - may not be related)

3.  ERROR   Kernel-General 5 , 15

{Registry Hive Recovered} Registry hive (file): '?? \C:\Users\Ravi\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat' was corrupted and it has been recovered. Some data might have been lost.

Hive ??\C:\Users\Ravi\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat was reorganized with a starting size of 8908800 bytes and an ending size of 8519680 bytes.

4. ERROR :   Apps 5973 ( for all  Metro apps!!!!)

Activation of app 4DF9E0F8.Netflix_mcm4njqhnhss8!App failed with error: This app does not support the contract specified or is not installed. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.

didn't work for me...

I gave up completely in the end, created a new user, transferred everything over data wise and then deleted old user.  Worked but a real pain to do.  Completely unimpressed with windows over this one.

Ran into this issue yesterday- Surface Pro Win 8.1 .  Just !amazing! how fragile the plumbing is.

Behaviour :

  Account connected to MsLive  - none of the metro apps worked ( including store and settings)

  Local account - all apps worked.  Had to run behind a lot of red herrings.

Fix: Here is what I did

   1.  re-registering  system apps (  Store , etc) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/notime/archive/2013/10/21/10458031.aspx

     2. uninstall and  re installing apps

     I am sure there is a better option to recover by restoring older files - but I am not sure if it would have fixed this particular issue.

Seq of events  :

1. few Windows updates  :

         Hardware Update - ‎12/‎10/‎2013 ,( Again !!! )

         Microsoft - Keyboard - Surface Touch\type Cover Filter Device

2. Failed resume from hibernate ( old problem no solution yet! - may not be related)

3.  ERROR   Kernel-General 5 , 15

{Registry Hive Recovered} Registry hive (file): '?? \C:\Users\Ravi\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat' was corrupted and it has been recovered. Some data might have been lost.

Hive ??\C:\Users\Ravi\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat was reorganized with a starting size of 8908800 bytes and an ending size of 8519680 bytes.

4. ERROR :   Apps 5973 ( for all  Metro apps!!!!)

Activation of app 4DF9E0F8.Netflix_mcm4njqhnhss8!App failed with error: This app does not support the contract specified or is not installed. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.

Now, when I run the Microsoft account troubleshooter, it says "No rootcauses found and created logs"

What does this mean?

When I run the app troubleshooter, it says my video drivers are possibly outdated => this is impossible because I just installed the latest drivers from the Nvidea website.

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