Windows 10: Mail app

I'm having a problem with the Mail app. I was told by a technician from Microsoft that the problem with the Mail app is that it is corrupted, so, in order to make it work again I was told to simply uninstall it by going to the app in the Apps & Features option in Settings and then simply reinstall it from the Windows app store, except when I go to simply uninstall it, the uninstall option is disabled. The uninstall button is not highlighted so I assume that it is disabled and can't be used. How do I uninstall this Mail app without going through a long process of doing it using administrator of which one has to be a programmer to know how to do it of which I'm not. This Mail app for some reason, maybe an email virus or power outage has corrupted it in a way that it doesn't show any graphics or pictures such as when I receive a message in Facebook, it only displays gibberish and a lot of line code.

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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. *Smile

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

 

Cannot open mail app settings


OK, my next suggestion was going to be uninstalling Mail and Calendar and reinstalling from the Windows Store. You can have a go at this by following these steps.

1. Open the Start menu, type Windows PowerShell.
2. Right click on the Windows PowerShell and select Run as administrator.
3. Enter the below command to remove the Mail and calendar app.

get-appxpackage *microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps* | remove-appxpackage

After performing the above steps, install the Mail and calendar app from the Windows Store.

Hope this helps, you will, of course, have to add you accounts back again.