Windows 10: Windows does not have permition to open windows apps/ "windowsapps" permission problem.

I have been experiencing a lot of trouble using the windows apps after I changed permissions to the windowsapp folder. Apologies for the long writeup but I have already tried a lot of troubleshooting myself and would like to document that for you to see what I tried, here we go:I was trying to run a game through the xbox and that not working required me to change something in the folder for that game. This worked fine until a day afterwards where most windows apps completely stopped functioning. the photos app does not open picture, the windows store does not open, calculator does not open. Ba

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows Store apps won't open after changing permissions on windowsapps folder

I was trying to access the windowsapps folder and to do so I had to change the permissions. Once I had got into the folder I changed nothing, but now none of the apps from the Windows Store, or the Windows Store app itself, will open. They simply display
the splash screen for a moment and close. I have tried running sfc /scannow multiple times, chkdsk /r, wsreset.exe and even refreshing windows. (which as I understood it should reset all the settings, but while all the permissions seem to have been reset the
apps still won't open.) Here are the current permissions for the windowsapps folder:


Help?

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Permission/Ownership Issues WindowsApps Folders...

I have been tearing what little hair I have left out of my head trying to copy a file from my desktop to the appropriate folder in the Kodi folder buried in the XBMC… folder in Windowsapps in a brand-new fairly high-end laptop running Windows 10 Pro. I cannot get beyond first what appears to be a UAC “Destination Folder Access Denied” error message saying “You’ll need to provide administrative permission to copy to this folder.” If I click on the UAC “continue” button I get another “Destination Folder Access Denied” error box saying “You need permission to perform this action.” The second error box has only “Try Again” and “Cancel” buttons. Nothing is listed under “More details” in either error box.

Here is most of what I have tried:

1. changing ownership of Windowsapps and all folders below it to my Microsoft account user and granting full-control permissions to Windowsapps and all folders below it;
2. changing ownership to administrators group for Windowsapps and all folders below it and granting full-control permissions to Windowsapps and all folders below it;
3. enabling the “hidden” administrator account, going back to my Microsoft user account and granting full-control rights to the administrator account, returning to the administrator account, taking control with that account, granting full control permission to Windowsapps and all folders below it;
4. creating a new administrator account and repeating 3;
5. completely disabling UAC through the registry, once in the default administrator account and once in my Microsoft account user.
6. adding and using the “Take Ownership” context option on a Windowsapps folder as described in the Tutorial at Add Take Ownership to Context Menu in Windows 10 ; and
7. running the following commands in an administrator command window:

Code:

as suggested at: Permission/Ownership Issues WindowsApps Folders... - Windows 10 Forums
In fact, even if I do an explicit copy from an administrator command window, I get an “access is denied” notice.

None of the many sources I have looked at online are of any help in dealing with this blockage. Please help — not only do I need to get full-control access to Windowsapps and its subfolders for this purpose, I also need to get full-control permission to Windowsapps folders in order to get rid of an annoying McAffee startup.exe which pops an error box on every boot up even though I removed McAffee in the normal way.

How can I get assured access to Windowsapps folders???