Windows 10: Windows 10 - Mail App - Not Saving "How do you want to open this file" selection

As the title entails, I am recently having issues when trying to open a PDF in the Windows 10 Mail app. Regardless of changing the default app for this file type to Adobe Acrobat Reader, clicking the box to remember my choice and countless other issues, it still asks me this every time, just on PDFs. I recently installed Adobe Acrobat DC versus the reader for work purposes.





Since I assume it was related to that, I tried to uninstall and got this message:




So my two questions are:

1. How can I stop this annoyingly consistent "HDYWTOTF"?

2. Why can't I uninstall a program on a computer in which I am the only user?

:)

 

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)

 

Cannot open mail app settings


OK, my next suggestion was going to be uninstalling Mail and Calendar and reinstalling from the Windows Store. You can have a go at this by following these steps.

1. Open the Start menu, type Windows PowerShell.
2. Right click on the Windows PowerShell and select Run as administrator.
3. Enter the below command to remove the Mail and calendar app.

get-appxpackage *microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps* | remove-appxpackage

After performing the above steps, install the Mail and calendar app from the Windows Store.

Hope this helps, you will, of course, have to add you accounts back again.

 

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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