windows apps not opening

[Jstagzsr]

i have no idea wtf is going on but its really starting to piss me off.. said every person ever.. at some point in their life..

long story short, no windows store apps, including the windows store itself will open.. not photos, game bar, nothing.. i cant even take screenshots.. and when i double click a photo on my desktop it bring up a window that says:

this app wont open
Check the Windows Store for more info about this app.

then i close that and another box pops up and says:

C:\users\user\desktop\picture name.jpg
the application cannot be started. try reinstalling the application to fix the problem.

if its possible to uninstal and reinstall the windows store, and MSphotos i dont know how to..

ive tried every suggestion imaginable on the internet ran from admin CMD. ive tried running wsreset.exe in cmd, ive tried scanning for issues and it stops at 50% telling me it cant continue for a reason i cant remember well enough to quote atm..
everything is 100% up to date with the current updates available.. idk why 1903 isnt coming to me yet but i have the latest 1809 available.

does anyone have any idea wtf is going on? and how to fix it?

asus z97 deluxe
i7 4790k 4.8ghz
32gb ddr3 3k
rx580 8gb
win10 x64 1809
C:/ is on a samsung nvme ssd.

[Syaoran]

A single restart might solve it, when was the last time you restart your PC?

What happened before the issue occurred? Did you installed anything, update anything?

 

You can try going to windows settings> update and security> troubleshoot> windows store apps

 

If that doesn't work, run this as admin in CMD:

sfc /scannow && dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Note: It'll take some time

[homeap5]

You probably mess something with Windows Update, some disable services etc. Even if this sounds not logical, modern apps needs some services to work - including firewall, cryptographic service, update and probably some more. Do you use any Windows tunning utility?

 

You may check event viewer for that or even procmon.

[Jstagzsr]

17 hours ago, homeap5 said:

You probably mess something with Windows Update, some disable services etc. Even if this sounds not logical, modern apps needs some services to work - including firewall, cryptographic service, update and probably some more. Do you use any Windows tunning utility?

 

You may check event viewer for that or even procmon.

no i dont use any app or program or anything that does any self tuning. definitely not anything that messes with windows.. nothing that i havent used for years anyway without this program.. i use avast cleanup once in a while and it has a part that cleans broken registry items and stuff like that, but ive using that for as long as i can remember and have never seen this issue..

at first it told me the apps werent working because i had the user account control turned off because i hate that stupid extra popup asking if im sure i wanna do the button i JUUUSSSTTT clicked on.. so dumb.. so anyway, i turned that back on and it still didnt fix it.

[Jstagzsr]

21 hours ago, Syaoran said:

A single restart might solve it, when was the last time you restart your PC?

What happened before the issue occurred? Did you installed anything, update anything?

 

You can try going to windows settings> update and security> troubleshoot> windows store apps

 

If that doesn't work, run this as admin in CMD:

sfc /scannow && dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Note: It'll take some time

i shut my pc down fully every night and restart it whenever theres zny issue. thats my first thing i do with any issue at all. but ill try that cmd line. and i noticed it was doing it a few days ago. and i havent installed anything major in a while. a few photo editing softwares. nothing that would effect windows store. i didnt install through the windows store. i extremely rarely even use the store. thats why i didnt notice it for a while. i have no idea when it started to be honest.

[Jstagzsr]

21 hours ago, Syaoran said:

A single restart might solve it, when was the last time you restart your PC?

What happened before the issue occurred? Did you installed anything, update anything?

 

You can try going to windows settings> update and security> troubleshoot> windows store apps

 

If that doesn't work, run this as admin in CMD:

sfc /scannow && dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

Note: It'll take some time

this is the scan i ran already that stopped at 50% for whatever reason. but im running it again rn and ill update this thread with the results of its failure to finish. assuming it fails again.

[Syaoran]

15 hours ago, Jstagzsr said:

this is the scan i ran already that stopped at 50% for whatever reason. but im running it again rn and ill update this thread with the results of its failure to finish. assuming it fails again.

What do you mean it stopped, did it gave an error? SFC and the cleanup image will take some time to complete. If there's no error message and the PC is still running fine, the command is still running. Open task manager and you'll be able to see that there's disk usage.

[Jstagzsr]

40 minutes ago, Syaoran said:

What do you mean it stopped, did it gave an error? SFC and the cleanup image will take some time to complete. If there's no error message and the PC is still running fine, the command is still running. Open task manager and you'll be able to see that there's disk usage.

it didnt stop this time.. it finished and said it fixed some error but the issue is continuing. .i just also noticed that sticky notes isnt working..

and what i meant by "it stopped" was that at 50% it stopped scanning and told me there was some error why it couldnt continue. but i cant rmemeber what it was.

im thinking a wipe and fresh install is in order.

[Syaoran]

Try this again, now that SFC completed: windows settings> update and security> troubleshoot> windows store apps

 

If that doesnt fix it, you can do a clean windows install.

 

Also, registry cleaners do more harm than good. Don't use them.

[Jstagzsr]

20 hours ago, Syaoran said:

Try this again, now that SFC completed: windows settings> update and security> troubleshoot> windows store apps

 

If that doesnt fix it, you can do a clean windows install.

 

Also, registry cleaners do more harm than good. Don't use them.

i did what you suggested. the troubleshooter suggested i reset any apps that werent working, so i did, and now theyre all stuck in a dowloading looking phase and arent actually downloading, theyre just stuck like that.. windows store wasnt in the list so there was no way to reset it and thats the root of the issue i think.. how can i reset the windows store? besides cmd wsreset.exe?

 

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update.. 2 hours after resetting the apps, they are still stuck in the download phase.. unclickable.. unusable. dont even show up in the "open with..." menu

[Syaoran]

Is 'Microsoft Store' listed under apps and features? If yes, click on it, then click on advance options, and then reset.

 

If not, go to the troubleshoot and run the windows update troubleshooter. After that, check for updates.

 

If that doesn't fix it, search for PowerShell and run as administrator and run this command:

Get-AppXPackage *WindowsStore* -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

[Jstagzsr]

6 hours ago, Syaoran said:

Is 'Microsoft Store' listed under apps and features? If yes, click on it, then click on advance options, and then reset.

 

If not, go to the troubleshoot and run the windows update troubleshooter. After that, check for updates.

 

If that doesn't fix it, search for PowerShell and run as administrator and run this command:

Get-AppXPackage *WindowsStore* -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

in the command line, where it says "install location" do i type "c://" or anything like that? or do i copy and paste this as is?

no, windows store is not in the list of apps.

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oh shit, i lied, yes it is there...

i reset it.. now its doing the same thing all the other apps i reset are doing.. its stuck in the downloading mode but not actually downloading. not after a reset or shut down or anything.. its just stuck like that

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