Windows 10: Anyone encountered "You'll need an app to open this pc"?

So long story short I had the black screen with only cursor issue. No fixes seemed to work so I reset my PC.Asked me for the password for the user which I didn't know or have since it had been reset. Finally managed to boot into safe mode and tried to run a command prompt to change user password and got the message "You'll need an app to open this pc".I couldn't find any results for this so any help would be appreciated! I can post more details if needed too, I'm just frazzled from trying to fix my PC and trying to get the important info up.

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Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Can I customize the list of suggest apps in the "Open with" menu?

You can't use it to add additional programs, only to set default programs.

Interestingly for me it shows nothing for text files:








Then if I want to add a portable app like Jarte Plus to open with context menu windows doesn't like it.





It's not present and is near impossible to add even via "look for an app on this PC"

OpenWithAdd to the rescue:




Result:

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hey Shawn,
I did that to no avail, then I ran WSReset.exe; now I'm good on all 3, Mail, Calendar and People! *Confused
Go figure!

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