Windows 10: Microsoft apps open for no reason

Discus and support Microsoft apps open for no reason in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; I can play normally most of the time but after some time like 10 minutes or sobut then suddenly Microsoft apps start opening like excell and word,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Nicolas Medina1, Nov 1, 2024.

  1. Microsoft apps open for no reason


    I can play normally most of the time but after some time like 10 minutes or sobut then suddenly Microsoft apps start opening like excell and word, also, Microsoft 365 opens up on my browser, some weird stuff starts to happen like when I press “T” on my keyboard Microsoft teams opens up and some of my keys just don’t seem to work, and instead opens Microsoft apps, how can I fix this?

    :)
     
    Nicolas Medina1, Nov 1, 2024
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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 open for no reason :)

    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, Nov 1, 2024
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  3. mngerhold Win User
    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 open for no reason 294973d1598623103t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-explorer-doc-open-b4-edit.png

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

    Microsoft apps open for no reason 294974d1598623158t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-regedit-doc-open-b4-edit.png

    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 open for no reason 294976d1598623523t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-explorer-doc-open-after-edit.png

    and the registry now shows:

    Microsoft apps open for no reason 294977d1598623552t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-regedit-doc-open-after-edit.png

    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 open for no reason 294978d1598623687t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-explorer-doc-open-additions.png


    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 open for no reason 294979d1598623906t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-explorer-pdf-open-no-word.png

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

    Microsoft apps open for no reason 980d1598623968t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-regedit-pdf-open-no-word-lots-others.png

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

    Microsoft apps open for no reason 294981d1598624067t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-dpe-list-pdf-open-some-others.png

    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 open for no reason 294983d1598624540t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-regedit-doc-open-docx.png

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

    Microsoft apps open for no reason 294984d1598624610t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-regedit-pdf-open-word-progids.png

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

    Microsoft apps open for no reason 294985d1598624682t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-explorer-pdf-open-word.png
    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 open for no reason d1598625244t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-explorer-pdf-open-irfanview-still-there.png

    and as seen in the registry:

    Microsoft apps open for no reason 0d1598625265t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-regedit-pdf-open-irfanview-still-there.png

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

    Microsoft apps open for no reason 294991d1598625395t-can-i-customize-list-suggest-apps-open-menu-explorer-pdf-open-i-want.png


    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, Nov 1, 2024
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  4. Edwin Win User

    Microsoft apps open for no reason

    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
     
    Edwin, Nov 1, 2024
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