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Updated to Version 1803 OS Build 17134.1
Now cannot open Photos, Groove, Calculator, and I'm sure a bunch of other apps....
Any help would be appreciated.
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Open Start, type: powershell
Right click PowerShell
Click Run as administrator
Type the following command then hit Enter, exit PowerShell then restart, then try updating through the Store again.
Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($\_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
Check if you can launch the Microsoft Store, then update the apps.
If this does not work, I recommend you attempt a repair upgrade:
This was the best hint in the whole thread here. Great job for pointing on that solution. I suggest trying this fix because that worked immediately for me. The other hints do simply not work because something within the app folder is messed up. Also the other fixes do not remove the whole folder so the broken files / folders are left there. However I will now write down a detailed description and the steps I did to fix the issue:
1.) Download https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec
2.) Extract the archive to e.g. d:\tools or any folder you want (but be aware that you have to change the command in step 4.2)
3.) Open an elevated powershell (as administrator) - right click on windows startmenu logo - Windows PowerShell (Administrator)
4.1) run this cmd: Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Windows.Photos | Remove-AppxPackage
4.2) run this cmd: d:\tools\PsExec.exe -sid c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
5.) a new command window will open - check if the path in step 7 exists (the actual folder of Windows Photos App)
6.) close everything except the new command window opened in step 4.2
7.) run this cmd: rd /s "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2018.18051.17710.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe"
8.) hit "y" or "j" to confirm
9.) check if everything got deleted, if an error occured check if you closed everything except your command window and start over with step 7, maybe a restart is necessary here before starting over with step 4.2
10.) Reinstall Photo App from Windows Store, voila!
Credits go to winhelponline and Rovern
https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/photos-store-apps-file-system-error-2147219196/
I've been looking at every thread possible. I tried a multitude of the suggestions, but this is what worked for me: Apparenlty, somehow the permissions to the WindowsApps folder (a hidden folder) got screwed up for the Users group.
File Explorer - Show Hidden Folders - Go to Program Files\WindowsApps - Right Click Select Properties - Select Security Tab - Select Advanced - Change the owner to Your Administrative Account Name - Once you have ownership access, delete the Users principal reference and it's associated permissions - Re-Add the Users group to have Read & Execute, List Folder Contents, & Read - Change the owner back to TrustedInstaller. At each point allow permissions to propagate to subfolders and files, etc.
I hope I explained it well enough. This is my recollection of what I did and what seemed to work for me. I hope that it works for you.
Caveat: I did uninstall the Photos app and reinstall it several times in advance of the above solution. That may or may not have had an impact on my ability to solve the problem using the solution above. So, one may need to do that if the above doesn't solve the problem outright.
For anyone who still has this problem I found that it was associated with the driver for my Intel HD Graphics card. To fix the problem follow the steps below:
If it does not find the latest inter driver driver, you will need to go download the most recent one from intel's website and manually install it.
Hi BigZub ,
Click this link to download the Windows Store Apps Troubleshooter and run that to see if it can resolve this issue:
Again, check to Store App to see if it is functional . . .
If not: it may be a problem with Windows Update:
Click your Start Button type services and hit Enter
For each of the following services, find them in the list of services, then double click them, if they are not already Started, start them and set their Startup type to Automatic
Windows Update
Background Intelligent Transfer Service
Cryptographic Service
Close the Services App
Click your Start Button type cmd, then right click Command Prompt and choose 'Run as Administrator'
Copy all the following commands and paste them into the command window in one go:
net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptSvc
net stop bits
net stop msiserver
ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 catroot2.old
net start wuauserv
net start cryptSvc
net start bits
net start msiserver
Wait for the all commands to complete.
Close the Command Prompt
Source: Ramesh.Kumar