Windows 10: Additional post-Anniversary update kills Sticky Notes app

Just confirmed this behavior on a number of Windows 10 Pro x64 machines. Immediately after installation of Anniversary Update the Sticky Notes app works as intended.

However, later the Store app will show that there's an update for Sticky Notes app. Downloading and installing that update kills Sticky Notes app. Trying to launch Sticky Notes results in a brief appearance of the Sticky Notes taskbar tab and "busy" circle next to mouse cursor. Then it immediately disappears and nothing else happens.

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Transfer Sticky Notes snt file to new PC with win 10 1607

Sticky Notes is now a modern app.. no more classic Win32 app. But you can try copying StikyNot.exe and the corresponding .mui file from your old installation (Windows.old) or from a Windows 1511 ISO.

Get back Classic Sticky Notes After Installing Windows 10 Anniversary Update:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/get-classic-sticky-notes-windows-10-anniversary/

 

Lost sticky notes after upgrade to Windows 10

MS changed Sticky Notes into a modern / UWP app. The classic desktop version (StikyNot.exe) still works if you copy the file from Windows.old along with the .mui file.

Get back Classic Sticky Notes After Installing Windows 10 Anniversary Update » Winhelponline:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/get-classic-sticky-notes-windows-10-anniversary/

 

The entry in the Error Log is consistent across all machines

(with the exception of process ids, start times etc.)

So far, all updated Windows 10 Pro x64 machines I inspected (about 20) have this problem except for 1. The one machine that does not have this problem happens to be an AMD machine, but this is unlikely the definitive difference.

SFC and DISM do not repair this.

Occasionally, after a reboot, Sticky Notes app manages to successfully launch once. But no more than once.

 

I have the exact same problem. Also tried SFC/DISM/Get-AppxPackage etc. Event log says Event ID 5973, basically can't open app.

 

Just tried a clean x64 Pro install from 1607 ISO. No improvement.

The original user account created during installation seems to work fine with Sticky Notes. However, any additional user accounts eventually lose Sticky Notes functionality to the above error.

 

I resolved my issue by uninstalling the app via PowerShell, rebooting and re-installing the app from "My Library" in the Windows Store.
I had tried this before but hadn't done a reboot in between.

 

Thank you for this, Mooch. I was looking for a solution for this for hours.

I would have found it faster but the OP misspelled "Sticky" - "Stocky" in the thread title ... perhaps a moderator or the OP can correct that for others searching?

 

UPDATE - after the above fix, a number of hours pass and the issue has returned. Ugh. This is driving me nuts.

 

If you go to Settings -> System ->Apps & Features, locate Sticky Notes app in the list, click on it, hit Advanced Options, and then Reset button, it will reset app data. After that it becomes possible to launch Sticky Notes app again. It will launch as if for the first time.

However, it is only possible to launch it once. Once you close it, it will not launch anymore (until you reset it again).

 

Supposedly, Microsoft is working on an update to sticky notes to fix this. On their community forum one of their engineers mentioned that a fix was being tested.

 

It's not just localized to sticky notes from what I can tell... Other random store purchases are doing similar stuff... Most of its just apps not launching ... All referencing the same API in the event viewer.

 

True. I just tried TuneIn Radio app. On the surface, it works as expected. However, if I tell it to add some radio station to the "homescreen" (whatever that means, I just wanted to try), it responds with an "unknown error" message, though continues to play the statioin. Meanwhile, Event Log receives the same "Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\twinapi.appcore.dll" record. Basically, at this time it is safe to conclude that the universal app infrastructure is generally broken.

 

Yep. That's the one.

My amd machines don't have this issue for some reason... Only my Intel machines. Smh.

 

A fix is supposed to be in a insider build for testing. The problem is associated with the display magnification setting. The default display magnification is 125%. Changing this to 100% seems to resolve the issue temporarily (at least it worked on my NB). Settings, display, set to 100%. Still not seeing my previous notes....
Not sure if I'm missing something...

At this point I can open new notes and the PGM seems to work....