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Since old threads tend to get locked, not allowing more replies, let me say to anyone who comes here from a Google search:
It doesn't look like this problem is going to get solved. It looks like the Windows installation has to be scrapped and a new clean install from scratch has to be done, followed by reinstalling all applications and repeating all settings of all applications etc.
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Here's the original question:
Microsoft Store and around a dozen other applications don't run. I tried a lot of things including doing an in-place upgrade from Windows 10 1903 to Windows 10 1903 keeping all files and apps. What it kept was the inability of these applications to run.
Start - Settings - Applications shows around a dozen unnamed applications attributed to Microsoft Corporation. However, Microsoft Store itself is not one of these. Microsoft Store is displayed in the list of applications, but doesn't have any size (not 0 bytes, but no size displayed at all), and was updated 2019/06/04.
The command wsreset gives an error message. The specified device, path, or file cannot be accessed. There is a possibility that the item can't be accessed because of a permissions problem. However, I've observed that the Windows folder doesn't contain the subfolder needed by Microsoft Store. The in-place reinstallation of Windows 10 1903 did not create the necessary subfolders.
sfc /scannnow etc. also do not create the necessary subfolders.
This PC originally ran Windows 7 Pro Japanese and subsequently Windows 10 Pro Japanese. No other language version has ever been installed on this PC.
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
With the upgrade to Windows 10 version 1909, Calculator started working. The first time, the Search icon next to the Start button still displays @pathnames instead of human readable labels, as shown in the screenshot posted September 2, 2019. However, the app opened. Interestingly, the second time I invoked the Calculator, the Search icon displayed correct labels.
However, some other apps such as Microsoft Store itself and Photos still don't work.
'Maybe try it with the cumulative KB4512941 too'
Again? Do you really think that reverting from the present non-working situation to the pre-updated non-working situation described in the original posting will fix the Store?
'BTW, my version of Calculator is higher than yours...'
I looked at one of my other PCs where the Store and Store Apps are working properly. On that PC, Calculator has the same version as yours. So I guess that on the failing PC, besides the Store and Store Apps not working, they also don't get updated by Windows Update.
'Maybe set your default language to English (instead of Martian) at "START, Settings, Time & Language, Language".'
In Windows NT 4, Service Pack 4 updated the True Type Collection of Martian Gothic to have 3 fonts instead of 2. The Gothic font completely broke in Word 97 and Word 98, but oddly not in Wordpad and not in Excel 97. In Windows NT 5 Beta 2 (before it was renamed Windows 2000), the Your Anus language version had the same breakage as the Martian language version. But when Windows 2000 was released, the Your Anus version had Martian Gothic working correctly, while the Martian version still broke Martian Gothic.
In Windows XP Martian language version, when a Martian user set her Windows account name to her actual name in the Martian language, some Windows APIs that were supposed to return her user name only returned half of her user name.
In Windows XP Martian language version, when a DLL was located in a folder whose pathname had components named in Martian, the regsvr32 command broke.
In Visual Studio 2005 Martian language version, when a Martian user set his Windows account name to his actual name in the Martian language, the Visual Studio toolset for Windows CE targets couldn't compile C++ programs. I don't remember if Visual Studio worked when targeting ordinary Windows systems.
From Windows 2000 until Windows 8.1, when a PC had a Martian USB keyboard, the Martian language versions of Windows insisted on pretending the keyboard had a Your Anus - Yankland (not England) layout instead of Martian - Mars layout. For Windows 2000 and maybe XP, Microsoft provided a downloadable Fixit, but for Windows 8 I had to use regedit, and I don't remember what happened with intermediate versions. But then the War of the Worlds took place, a Martian hacked into Microsoft, and Windows 10 Martian language version handles Martian keyboards correctly.
So yes, I'm well aware that Microsoft doesn't test its Martian language software. Some Martians, and some of us aliens who used to live in Mars, wished that Microsoft would have been prohibited from selling its products there.
However, the Martian store is working on my other Martian PCs, just not this one. So your racism isn't the answer.
By the way, I can try to open Calculator using the Search icon next to the Start icon. I wonder if this display might help in diagnosing why it doesn't open. In comparison, when I try to open Store, it displays sensible labels while not opening.
'Then check whether the Store works. Afterwards it/they will reinstall'
Windows Update is reinstalling KB4511555 now, but not reinstalling Store. I don't expect Store and Calculator to start working after the next reboot.
Thanks for the feedback on the tutorial which has tens of thousands of uses. I made changes in the Startups and Maintenance sections based on your feedback.
As I explain in the tutorial, DISM only repairs the integrity of the install.wim image used to check the System files by. The actual repair of System Files is done by SFC which should be run up to 3 separate times to see if it can repair the files, and if not move on to the Repair Upgrade, by installing the Media Creation Tool from this link http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/m... choosing Download Tool Now, install the tool, open it and choose Upgrade this PC Now. This will save your files and apps while bringing you up to the latest version by the most stable method. It will also bring all of your Updates current and solve most problems since it reinstalls Windows.
