Windows 11 - "No such interface supported" error when opening an xml file to edit - should open in Code Writer.

Anonymous
2022-09-30T23:54:58+00:00

I have just installed the latest Windows 11 patch and now my xml files show with a PDF image next to them. The application setting is set to automatically open with Code Writer so the image should be the Code Writer image not PDF. When I try to open it I get the error message "No such interface supported". I can open Code Writer and then open the file from within Code Writer.

How can I fix this please. I am not very computer literate, so a step by step solution would be appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-03-29T00:23:17+00:00

    I had this same issue when trying to install .msixbundle files, which are the modern app equivalents of setup.exe. .msixbundles are handled by a built-in Microsoft app called Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller but this should work with any modern app.

    TheReset-AppxPackagecmdlet will reset the app to its original settings, and the app will react as a freshly installed app.

    To fix, open a Windows PowerShell admin window and type:

    get-appxpackage *[your app name]* | Reset-AppxPackage

    In my case, "get-appxpackage *appinstall*" returned

    Name : Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller

    Publisher : CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US Architecture : X64

    etc...

    And piping it to Reset-AppxPackage fixed the problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-03-29T04:26:34+00:00

    Lol ... appreciate the reply but you got to be kidding me. Power Shell???? Not touching it. Miscrosoft needs to fix the bug. Wish I never updated to 11 and not right this flaw still exsists.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-29T08:32:10+00:00

    … besides, this PowerShell command is the same as uninstalling - reinstalling or resetting from the GUI inside settings, which doesn’t help.

    I had to do a „Reset PC from USB image“ to get rid of this bug (Surface Book 2).

    No other workaround/bugfix helped.

    These were: resetting/reinstalling the related app/making a new user account/re-assigning the file extension, app package re-registering thingymajingy/reset PC from recovery partition.

    Quite astonishing. If it is so hard to solve could MS at least acknowledge it and say „we are sorry, but this is a monstrously complex bug which can only be solved by factory reset. Please forgive us, software sometimes bites you, no matter how careful it was coded.“. Just ignoring it is, well, a /strong f word / -u to its loyal customers.

    With the collection of all -diagnostic data- , this has to pop up somewhere in the system, doesn’t it?

    Anger aside, on a positive note, windows is awesome, if only the bug problem resolution/management could be half as awesome… .

    But what do we get instead… repeating intrusive messages about -do you really not want to link your PC with an MS account, the PC will not work well without it…-

    Some may say you have lost the way. Please get back on it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-12T06:47:36+00:00

    why i facing ''no such interface supported''?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-05T23:24:37+00:00

    getting this BS error as well when simply trying to view a JPG file.

    Windows 11 is a dog, tempted to install Win 10 again.

    In this case just go to Apps > Installed apps > Microsoft Photos > Repair, Reset.

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