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
    2014-02-27T19:45:59+00:00

    Thanks Praseetha!! :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-28T05:30:44+00:00

    Hi Asib,

    You are Welcome and thank you for the updates.

    Let us know if you need further assistance with Windows related issues. We will be happy to help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-02-28T08:16:33+00:00

    Hi Praseetha,

    Actually there one question i would like to ask to you about windows 8.1 update. I've had the beta version of windows 8.1 for quite some time and i'm telling you honestly that it wasn't a great experience overall with windows 8.1 and there are number of reasons for that but i don't think this is the right moment to describe all those silly little issues that i wasted many hours on trying to fix them so i could just do my homework or a project. Soon i'm going to erase everything off of my computer and re-install the windows.... and i want to make sure that this time i'm not forced to update my Pc to windows 8.1. kindly if you know a way to stop those updates that asks me to update my windows from 8 to 8.1. I really need your help. Thanks!!! :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-03T13:29:31+00:00

    Running the powershell command did the trick for me, but only after I performed a clean reboot. The powershell command did not work before the clean reboot.

    Thanks, Josh, for your help!

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