Windows 10: Microsoft Store and Photo App won't launch

Microsoft store and Photo App WON"T launch. I can see the icons are "pinned" but they do not open when clicked. Microsoft Store: Shows in the start menu - but cannot click on it / does not launch Photos: Icon is pinned to desktop but does not openMissing from start menu - not thereIf I try to open a photo with a "new app" the options are Paint or Microsoft WinRT Storage API Many of the troubleshooting options are to "uninstall and reinstall" or use the "troubleshoot" feature, I cannot do that if I can't locate the app or the store I have tried wsr

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Unable to launch Microsoft Store and Microsoft store apps.

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand how it could be when the applications doesn’t work as they are supposed to. We will look into this. However, please reply to the following questions to help you in a better way:

• Are you getting any error message?
  
• Since when are you facing this issue?
  
• Are you aware of any changes made on the computer recently?
  

In the meantime, I suggest you to follow the steps from the article
Fix problems with apps from Microsoft Store to fix the issues with the Microsoft apps that are not launching. Also, follow the steps from the article

Microsoft Store doesn't launch to fix the issues you are facing in launching Store.

Hope it helps.

Please reply with the status of the issue, we will be glad to help you further.

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Microsoft Store and other apps such as Calc and Photos won't launch after Windows' update

After an update, Microsoft Store and several other apps such as Photos and Calculator stopped working. Clicking on them would open a window's frame for a split second, then immediately disappear without any error message.

I also noticed that in the pictures' properties, at the "Open with" line, Photos had been replaced by "TWINUI".

After a quick googling it appeared the problem was related to incoherences in the apps packages, however none of the guides I followed worked for me.

Another symptom was that the app's names weren't displayed in Windows' program list, instead they were shown as follow :





There are different suggestions that I found on the Internet, but none of them are relevant in my situation :

• sfc /scannow
  
• dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
  
• In powershell : Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$.InstallLocation -like
  "*SystemApps*"} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode
  -Register "$($.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
  
• Downloading the migration tool from Microsoft's website and updating over the current installation
  
• Running Windows' problem diagnosis tools
  

 

Trusted Microsoft Store Apps failing to launch

Trusted Microsoft Store Apps(Photos, Store, Mail, etc), on being launched are immediately shutting down. Please suggest.

Tried

Microsoft Store doesn't launch

Fix problems with apps from Microsoft Store

Once the troubleshooter detected app hanging and closing problem

Issue us still the same