Microsoft apps crashing on startup

[Bastet]

+1 for the in-place repair. I was going to suggest this myself.
Just download the media creation tool, run it & choose to upgrade/install. Ensure that keep everything is selected & continue with the installation/repair.

[de_Patrick]

Welp, reinstalled the whole system while keeping my apps and all data

Found out the search bar isn’t working properly (it wasn’t working even before the reinstallation), it will find some apps but some not, when searching for e.g. MS store, Xbox, Edge, Notes, Word, Excell, PaintNet or even Conrol Panels, it won’t find anything… (I know I must have Word since I can open docx documents with it and I can open Control Panels within the run program (win+r)… I don’t understand

However I was able to open MS Store, (when you browse on the internet version of it and try to download something, it will ask if it can open the store and it opened and worked just fine), downloaded the Xbox app and the app crashed the same way it did before…
Tried downloading the Xbox app through normal installer and again, crashed on startup

Also can’t open any png or jpeg file, when I do, a message pops-up (the one attached) (simple translation: System can’t find file location Make sure the file name is correct and try again), tried renaming them, moving to another location, different drive, didn’ work, using a different app to open the jpeg (like ms painting) worked just fine.. (this was happening before the reinstallation aswell)

Don’t want to do factory settings but would it help if nothing else does?

[de_Patrick]

So the png and jpeg file problem is solved, I had to set a different default app for openning photos, since the original photo viewer crashed on startup…

[de_Patrick]

Have some updates, tried updating all the apps through the MS Store which resulted in the Store crashing after a while and ever since crashing on startup.
Tried logging on other user account and the search bar works just fine there aswell as the MS Store, however downloading the Xbox app on that account doesn’t help at all, it just crashes on startup…

[Bruce]

+1 for the repair install of Windows, leaving personal files as is.

[Bastet]

Ensure Windows is fully up to date after the reset.
Is there a reason why you didn’t follow through on the in-place repair & went with a reset?

[de_Patrick]

Ensure Windows is fully up to date after the reset.
Is there a reason why you didn’t follow through on the in-place repair & went with a reset?

I must have misunderstood the assignment, I thought that’s what you were suggesting

[de_Patrick]

And yes, everything is up to date

[Malnutrition]

I’d certainly do the repair, sometimes its the only way to go…

[de_Patrick]

I just figured out that I don’t even know what I did in your terminology, I used the media creation tool, selected to keep all data, files, programs and installed the thing just like suggested in the video

[Malnutrition]

@Bastet will assist you further when she comes online.

[Bruce]

I just figured out that I don’t even know what I did in your terminology, I used the media creation tool, selected to keep all data, files, programs and installed the thing just like suggested in the video

that should have repaired Windows.
sounds like something else may be at play, like a failing drive, especially when all your App store stuff should have vanished when logged in under another account, as that stuff is User based, not Machine based. so the Registry may be corrupted.
let’s redo these;
[ul]
[li]chkdsk /f[/li][li]sfc /scannow[/li][li]dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth[/li][li]dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup /resetbase[/li][/ul]
while the sun shines, make sure you have a backup of all your personal stuff because the upcoming suggestions may be to do another repair but this time keeping nothing. same USB media, same process, but telling it not to keep stuff, and the first window offering choices during that process should allow you to manually delete all the current partitions - do that too!

but let’s see if others have some suggestions first. (y)

[de_Patrick]

“Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts?”, told him to do so… nothing happened

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them.
For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at
windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline
repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the /OFFLOGFILE flag.

Last two cleanups completed succesfully

Then I restarted the pc and before the Windows booted, it said Scanning and repairing drive C:

MS Store and Xbox keep crashing on startup though

[Bastet]

I just figured out that I don’t even know what I did in your terminology, I used the media creation tool, selected to keep all data, files, programs and installed the thing just like suggested in the video

Yes that’s the in-place repair. A reset is done from within Windows without the tool.

[Bastet]

If you deleted the AppStore folder (which is hidden) then you most likely deleted every
Right click Start>Powershell with admin rights & enter:
icacls “C:\Program Files\WindowsApps” /reset /t /c /q To reset the permissions for Microsoft App Store & all Apps to default.
If that doesn’t work then reinstall all MS apps:
Right click Start>Powershell with admin rights & enter:
Get-AppxPackage -allusers | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -register “$($_.InstallLocation)\appxmanifest.xml” -DisableDevelopmentMode}

If this doesn’t work:
Try Solution 9: Use the Preinstalled Apps Zip to Reinstall Microsoft Store:

https://appuals.com/windows-10-store-not-installed/

If that doesn’t work then try the suggestion here:

https://www.windowslatest.com/2021/10/28/you-can-now-install-new-microsoft-store-on-windows-10/

Once the store is installed then you should be able to reinstall the other apps.

If non of these work then most likely a clean install is required.