Change PC Settings link is broken after update to windows 8.1

Anonymous
2013-10-19T02:20:50+00:00

After updating to windows 8.1 Change PC Settings link is broken. After clicking on it nothing is opening and landing into Start screen.

I tried from Administrator account with no luck.

I am unable to change the settings.

Please help me how to restore Change PC Settings.

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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Anonymous
2013-11-17T18:30:59+00:00

Struggled with Store, Settings, Skydrive etc not working.

Got the Store working and some other apps too using dowloaded troubleshooters from Microsoft, but PC Settings was a no go as well as Skydrive and Photos.

I made a new user using admin tools in control panel and PC Settings was working for this user so I knew it could work and after much more digging around I found this thread here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/c4147bcc-a430-43fe-b4e9-f999552568da/81-store-apps-wont-load?forum=w8itprogeneral

It had all of the steps I used to get the Store working again and those that had failed on the pc settings, and then this:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\ImmersiveControlPanel\AppxManifest.xml

Right click the start button and open a command prompt and then paste the above and hit enter.

PC settings working without even needing to reboot, hope this helps someone, paste it forward into other threads you all have no doubt looked at w/o finding this solution.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-12-04T00:25:00+00:00

    Hey I can help you

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-28T00:48:04+00:00

    I had the same problem with not being able to open "Change PC Settings" but didn't haven't any problem opening other Apps EXCEPT Internet Explorer 11.

    Fixed mine with the following.  Opened elevated CMD prompt

    Cleared the Apps cache with WSReset then ran

    DISM /ONLINE /CLEANUP-IMAGE /SCANHEALTH

    then

    SFC /SCANNOW.

    This fixed "Change PC Settings" but didn't do anything to make IE11 work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-27T15:03:41+00:00

    Thank you. This setting- Shift key( keep holding)  + Restart worked perfectly for me and I restored my computer back to its default Windows 8 setting.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-11-19T21:55:50+00:00

    I did the same thing but I keep getting an error code 0x80070002 every time I try to install any other apps. It doesn't make sense since I got Store, PC settings and Skydrive to work. I tried updating the apps which didn't work, then I uninstalled and reinstalled. Same error code each time. I disabled my firewall, did a safe boot with only ms services, nothing is working. I can only assume since I was able to fix the others that it is possible to fix these without a reset. *Oh and I also got Camera and photos to work to. The only reason they work is cause I ran those CMD commands so is there no command just to fix everything?

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