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
    2015-01-28T13:16:24+00:00

    Thank you so much, everything works fine.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-11T22:03:58+00:00

    Method #1 worked for me

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-08T18:57:29+00:00

    Not a power user...but running the Powershell string did the trick.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-05T02:48:13+00:00

    I stand corrected. The problem persisted. Then I started thinking about it. I was working with a HP Laptop by the way. I noticed during the reset I was asked if I wanted the Catalyst Control Suite to control video or Windows with the default being CCS. I kept hitting "ok" to get past it and the problem persisted. I uninstalled The Catalyst Control Suite. Followed the steps listed above and then it seemed to work. No complaints being called back yet.

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