Windows 10: Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data.

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  1. Eric69420 Win User

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data.


    Hi.I've been trying to access some default microsoft apps, primarily microsoft store, but I've run into some issues on the way. When opening one of these services, the app looks like it is about to boot normally for a second but is then immediately terminated. I have no idea why it is. I've tried some common fixes such as reinstalling windows repair route, all files and programs kept and using the windows powershell thing.Here is some weird stuff I've noted:- In Programfiles\Windowsapps\DeletedAllUserPackages, there were 55 different items. Alot of the apps there were the ones that weren't w

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    Eric69420, Sep 26, 2022
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  2. Brink Win User

    Mail app will not open on 10041.

    Hello Adam,

    This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it. Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. :)

    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)
     
    Brink, Sep 26, 2022
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  3. Ztruker Win User
    Can I customize the list of suggest apps in the "Open with" menu?

    @mngerhold, there is more involved. You have the

    OpenWithList

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]


    OpenWithProgIDs

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]


    and UserChoice


    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]


    which contains a HASH value and a ProgID which feeds back into the OpenWithProgIDs stem of the tree.
    I don't know how the HASH value is generateed or what it is generated from but I think it's important.
     
    Ztruker, Sep 26, 2022
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  4. mngerhold Win User

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data.

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

    Well, I hope this helps the OP - it took a while. I tried 'Default Program Editor' (DPE) and it did indeed add (or remove) items, but when I tried to specifically add Word to pdf opening, it failed - it went through the motions, but nothing happened. So I started again, playing with settings for opening .doc files. This seemed to work: initially in explorer I had 3 programs appear in the 'default' list that pops up on a rt-click>open-with:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    and this is what the relevant bit of the Registry showed:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    Don't ask me why just 3 of those 8 (a to h) programs show up (maybe the 'instant' list is limited to three? - no, see later) - anyway, I used DPE to remove Wordpad from the list: when saving the edit as a REG file, this is what I got:

    Code:
    and the result in Explorer was:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    and the registry now shows:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    Note how item 'g' from the list has been removed (it seems there is no issue with having a letter missing). I then messed about trying to open a .doc file with various other programs, and they all started to appear in the 'instant' list:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]


    So I thought 'well, that is easy - just open a pdf once in Word and it should appear'. So back to trying to open PDFs: but however many times I tried, Word would never appear.

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    even though there were any number of entries in the Registry 'Open With' list, including Word:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    So what did DPE make of this - well, it showed some of the entries:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    Although Word is shown, it doesn't appear on a rt-click. Its entry can be removed, but that doesn't help. So my attention was drawn to the existence of another folder below 'OpenWithList', namely 'OpenWithProgids', and that contained a specific ref to Sumatra (my preferred program for PDFs). Looking back at the same entry for .docx, I found this:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    so I added an identical Word.Document.12 ref to the list for PDFs:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    I think IrfanView is there as it got added during my experiments! I now get this in Explorer:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]
    Hurrah! I then tried to use DPE to remove the redundant entries, and got this as a .REG file:
    Code:
    But when i merge that with the registry, the IrfanView item does not get deleted:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    and as seen in the registry:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]

    so I deleted it by hand, and at last have the entries I (or rather, the OP) want:

    Microsoft Apps do not open and contain no data. [​IMG]


    Note that my manually added reg entry is of type Binary', as there seems to be no way to add a value of type 'None'.

    So it seems that DPE cannot cope with entries in the 'Progids' list, and something makes some programs fall into that list, rather than the 'openwithlist'. I am sorry for any typos above, or pictures in the wrong place - can't be bothered to check it too thoroughly. Hope it helps someone!

    atb, Martin
     
    mngerhold, Sep 26, 2022
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