"You'll need a new app to open this windowsdefender link" fix

Anonymous
2022-02-09T15:04:00+00:00

Hi this post is to help people with windows 10 and 11 windows security not working

On windows 11 do this

  1. launch powershell as an admin
  2. Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
  3. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
  4. Set-ExecutionPolicy restricted

IGNORE THE ERRORS

on windows 10 do this

  1. launch powershell as an admin}
  2. run get-AppxPackage Microsoft.SecHealthUI -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage
  3. if it doesn't work do this
    4) run Add-AppxPackage -Register -DisableDevelopmentMode "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.SecHealthUI_cw5n1h2txyewy\AppXManifest.xml"
  4. run get-AppxPackage Microsoft.SecHealthUI -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-06-14T16:17:52+00:00

    This worked for my admin account, but not my other regular user account. Nothing works for my regular account.
    I used powershell as admin. I tried doing this on both regular and admin account. Nothing fixes my regular account. I hate Microsoft.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-06-14T16:17:37+00:00

    Same for me. My regular account will never fix itself. I hate Microsoft for this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-10T21:29:20+00:00

    Worked for me!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-06-08T23:42:22+00:00

    This worked for me. Thank You!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-06-08T20:56:04+00:00

    This worked me. The accepted answer seems like a brute force approach so I would try this first.

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