Windows 10: Photos App 'The App didn't start.'

'Photos' gives me the source and address of the image but simply states, 'The App didn't start.' I have used Powershell to uninstall and reinstall the app. I have uninstalled the app and downloaded it again from the Microsoft Store. But still no joy.

What can I do next? cheers and thanks for reading.

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Photos are opening with Paint instead of Photos app

Hello,

It's likely that your default application for opening photos is Paint. To change your default program in Windows 10 from
Paint to the Photo app, we suggest that you perform the following steps:

• On the Start menu, select Settings.
  
• Go to System, then go to Default apps.
  
• Select Photos or any app that you like to be the default under
  Photo viewer.

Update us if the steps above helped you in resolving your concern.

 

WINDOWS 10 MICROSOFT PHOTO APP

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

The Photos app brings together pictures from all your devices using OneDrive, so that you can browse them by date, album or folder. It also automatically enhances photos, and creates albums for you, to showcase your best shots.

I suggest you to follow the methods below and check if it helps:

Method 1:

I suggest you to change the Default apps in the setting app and verify the result. You may follow the steps in the below:

• Go to settings and system.
  
• Click on Default Apps and select the appropriately.
  

Method 2:

I suggest you to reinstall Photo app using the PowerShell command
and reinstall using the Windows store. Follow the below steps.

• Open the　Start　menu, type　Windows PowerShell　in the search bar.
  
• Right click on the　Windows　PowerShell　and select　Run as　administrator.
  
• Enter the below command to uninstall the Photo app.
  

• 　　get-appxpackage　　*Microsoft.Windows.Photos* | remove-appxpackage
  

More reference:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-10/photos

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

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Windows 10 Photos app crashing upon opening


Have you tried resetting the app? You’d think uninstalling the app and reinstall would be a more thorough way of purging and starting again. But in the past I had a problem with one of the native apps and resetting the app rather than reinstalling worked.

Another suggestion is try ccleaner to remove the app and then reinstall it from the store. I once had issues with a few native apps such as news and weather somehow corrupting after they updated. System restore didn’t help. Resetting didn’t help. But using ccleaner and then reinstalling did the trick.

i despise it when MS updates the native apps. They are very fragile and I have found them problematic across numerous machines. Other user accounts on a pc are very prone to having issues when an app updates even though it works on the main user account. At least that is my experiences