Windows 10: Opening programs/apps

When I double click on an app or a program, I get a blue circle for a few seconds, it stops, and nothing happens. The program/app does not open. This happens to old and newly installed programs and apps. It happens off and on. Help?

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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)

 

Add app/program to 'Open with' apps list

Am I missing something? I just want to add a program to the list of files in the "Open with" list; in win XP and 7 it was just a matter of associating the file type with the program but in win 10 this doesn't seem possible. To make it clear I don't want
to change the default program just to add a program to the 'Open with' list for example .html .css .js files I am developing need to be opened with a browser as default or sometimes Dreamweaver ( which IS in the list ) but sometimes I want to open it with
my text editor since it is quicker to see the contents of the file but in order to do so I need to... right click the file > select open with > choose another app > select my editor from the list.

I used to right click > select open with > choose my editor. Since I do this many times it is a pain to have the extra step.

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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!

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