"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
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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-02T07:59:33+00:00

    Thank you so much. I installed it and now works. Online I haven't found anything that work. Love u.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-01T07:26:42+00:00

    will this still work and will it be fine if I just don't turn execution policy to restricted?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-02T16:30:50+00:00

    i got this error......

    Reset-AppxPackage : The term 'Reset-AppxPackage' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or

    operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try

    again.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-09T02:10:04+00:00

    It didnt work for me like I literally dont know what to do at this point

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-08-26T04:05:48+00:00

    Reset-AppxPackage : The term 'Reset-AppxPackage' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or

    operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try

    again.

    At line:1 char:51

    • get-AppxPackage Microsoft.SecHealthUI -AllUsers | Reset-AppxPackage 
    •                                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      • CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Reset-AppxPackage:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
      • FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

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