Windows 10: Windows 10 Settings app closes when clicking Devices

Hello,


I'm running the latest version of windows 10, which I've been tweaking/trimming for the last couple of days to resolve a few gaming issues (stutter/input lag/...).

Quite successful but now it appears I'm no longer able to go into the Devices section of the Settings app as it closes instantly when I click on it. All the other sections of the Settings app are still working correctly.


My guess is I disabled one (or more) too many services / uninstalled a user/system app I shouldn't have or was a little too aggressive on the privacy settings or group policies (cortana/telemetry/...).

This is one of the tools that I used: https://www.winprivacy.de/english-home

Also did many things manually.


I've tried this powershell command to restore apps, but it had no effect:

PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "& {$manifest = (Get-AppxPackage *immersivecontrolpanel*).InstallLocation + '\AppxManifest.xml' ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest}"



Could anyone enlighten me as to which components/services/apps/... are called when that Devices icon is clicked in the Settings to take this further ?

:)

 

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