Windows 10: How to fix Mail and Calendar App Tentative/Busy Color coding

Hello,The Mail and Calendar App from Microsoft for Windows was working beautifully for many years until today where I was not able to open the calendar app. I figured I would just do a quick fix by reinstalling the app. Wrong. When I reinstalled the app and synced the calendar from my Samsung Calendar App, every event from my phone was labeled and color coded as a strikethrough box labeled as "tentative." It's very hard to read the text and use the calendar when my events are strikethrough due to labelling issues. Looking online provided no help. The app has no settings that allow one to chang

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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)

 

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!

Store Cache - Clear in Windows 8

 

Mail & Calendar app on Windows 10

If there are no error messages, check on the article below, and follow the suggested troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue:

• Resolve sync issues in Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10

Let us know if the issue persists.