Unfortunately, this did not solve the issue and the folder remained partially transparent. At the top of the windows, it said "Owner: TrustedInstaller." From hearing a little bit about similar issues, and with everything telling me that I did not have permission, I then changed the owner from "TrustedInstaller" to "SYSTEM." A loading menuĬhanged permissions and then I restarted my computer.
Then another window with a permissions, auditing, and effective access tabs opens.
Windows 8.1 apps will not open windows#
When I click on that, I am told in the Advanced Security Settings for Windows Apps that "You must have Read permissions to view the properties of this object."Ī little strange that I'm constantly being told that I'm locked out of my own folders, but it allows me to continue as administrator. To access this folder you will need to use the security tab." When I click that, I get another window, WindowsApps Properties,Īnd it opens to the security tab, but to get anywhere I have to click "Advanced" down at the bottom. But when I clicked it, a message popped up telling me I "have been denied access to this folder. When I navigated to the WindowsApps folder, I noticed that it was a little transparent, and when I clicked it to open it, I was told that I did not currently have permission to access the folder, but there was a button that allowed me to gain permanent access, So I've tried the first step, but like I said earlier I got the same error message: " Windows cannot find 'ms-windows-store:PurgeCashes." Moving on I was about to try your second and then third solution. Hope this information is helpful, if not let us know with the updated status and we will be happy to assist you further. I would also recommend you to refer to the Microsoft article and check if it helps: Delete the following files in that folder:Īfter the reboot, Windows will recreate the files you deleted (minus the corruption) and all will (hopefully!) be well again.You’ll notice you can’t open that folder – that’s because you need to.Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository.Method 3: It’s quite possible that your “PackageRepository.edb”įile has become corrupt. If not, check it ( turn it on).Īnd if that didn’t get you back up and running, then we’ll need to do some Windows surgery. Make sure 'Full Control' for 'ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES' is checked.
Windows 8.1 apps will not open full#
Given full control permissions to all apps: Right click it in the search results and select.I would suggest you to reset the windows store app and check if it helps: Let’s try few methods and check if it helps : Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community forum. Now while this works on the new user account, I tried logging back into my account to no avail. That account had no issues whatsoever with apps. UPDATE: I tried creating a new user account, and logged in with it. To the Windows Store to reinstall them, it was having the same exact issue, and now I can't access the store at all! Please help! Make sure you typed the name correctly, and try again." Unfortunately, I thought that uninstalling and reinstalling these apps would fix the issue. I get the error message: "Windows cannot find 'ms-windows-store:PurgeCashes'. I've tried to reset the app cache, but when I run 'wsreset.exe' When I click on this, or try to get to the app in any other way, it opens for a split-second and then minimizes itself again. On the Taskbar, they are shown as open,īut sometimes do not even have an image, and just take up an empty space. When I click these apps, they open up as if they were loading for a split-second, and then minimize themselves. Now this isn't the main issue, but this does however show which apps have the problem. Examples: Windows Mail has changed to '' and others haveĬhanged the same way.
When I open the Start menu, I can see that some of the apps have lost their images and have had their names changed. The Windows Apps that come pre-installed, nor the Windows Store. A few weeks ago, without changing anything on my laptop that was out of the ordinary, I suddenly could not use about half of I've seen some similar questions like the one I'm about to pose, but sadly none of them have had any solutions that worked for me.
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