Windows 10 apps = black screen

[stevenkoalae]

I was upgrading my laptop to window 10 for a long trip to Asia and run into some really strange problem. Whenever I launch any windows app (Maps, Calculator, Store, Alarms, etc) my screen will blink to black with my mouse cursor still visible, and then it will blink again to complete black screen while it plays the window error sound. Although I can see my harddrive light still blinking as usual, the screen is black no matter what I do.

 

Other than windows apps, everything seems to work just fine. Office 2007, chrome, paint, window media classic, all works. So, any pointers for me to fix this annoying issue?

 

System:

Asus N53J series

i5 480M

Geforce GT 425M

8gb DDR3 1333

Samsung 840

 

Edit: 

I just found out that opening an image directly that runs Photo doesn't crash my pc, but trying to open Photo directly does. This is getting really strange.

[Grrizz]

IDK about that specific problem but I can say make sure all the updates have finished installing and you have done a manual restart, the early updates fixed quite a few broken things and some updates break stuff after installing until you restart even thought they don't "require" a restart.

Failing that (and any other potential fixes) I would recommend a clean install, Windows is getting better at inline version updates but its still far from perfect.