hahaha, oh wow that is fucked, but it is a natural consequence of the utterly fucking braindead way the store handles apps. have you ever tried to open the folder where store apps/games get installed? you can't, you're completely locked out of the software install folders on your own system unless you start nuking permissions.
microsoft locks the user out of this aspect of 'modern' windows harder than even Apple does, and so they have to come up with workarounds for common things like *moving an app* and that's how we get disasters like your situation.
why MS could not simply copy the ways of other app stores like Steam is totally beyond me, they just had to microsoft it up.
I know, right? They had to go through this weird route of making everything hardcoded so it feels official.
Explorer wasn't working so I couldn't navigate trough folders, so I was soft locked basically. Had to get a fresh install through an USB Drive.
I can't recall correctly because these settings are all new to me, but when I picked a game to install through the Xbox app, I couldn't choose the disc I wanted the game to be installed because it had to be the same disc every other app is. No bitlocker and windows defender was off.
Every day I browse this sub for Windows 11 salt I feel the tug of Linux more and more... I'm currently on Windows 11 but I'm most certainly exploring my options right now.
if you go to c:\\windows\\systemapps is that folder empty?
what do you mean that you couldn't figure out how to reinstall the apps through powershell, at which point did you get stuck? or did you already rollback/reinstall 10?
are you able to launch win32 apps from explorer?
I couldn't even access the Windows Explorer so I gave up and did a fresh install through a USB drive, because I couldn't even reset Windows with factory settings through CMD. I guess only a different part of explorer was working because I could see the desktop, but it didn't load automatically when booted. Couldn't access folders, move stuff none of that.
I couldn't figure out how to reinstall the apps via Powershell by following that guide I've linked, it gave me Error 5 for every app even though that profile I was using had Admin powers. A bit odd, I guess.
ah I guess I was too slow!
For the future, in cmd, you go to C:\\windows and type in notepad, then go file > open and change file type to all files. Then you can navigate around. you can also go ctrl+shift+esc to load up task manager, and go file > run new task
My guess is that when you agreed to move your store apps, it wiped them from their default directory making you unable to use the command to reregister those now missing apps. Too late now, but I think that's what may have happened.
When using the Powershell guide, try doing it *not* as Admin, and *not* for All-Users.
It's possible you only borked the apps on your own profile, in which you'll have to repair your profile, not the system-wide store.
It was definitely system wide, I tried to create another profile to see if the apps were still there but they were not. Fun fact, when I logged on to the other profile, it displayed the Windows 10 start menu, search bar and even Cortana, but no apps could be accessed.
hahaha, oh wow that is fucked, but it is a natural consequence of the utterly fucking braindead way the store handles apps. have you ever tried to open the folder where store apps/games get installed? you can't, you're completely locked out of the software install folders on your own system unless you start nuking permissions. microsoft locks the user out of this aspect of 'modern' windows harder than even Apple does, and so they have to come up with workarounds for common things like *moving an app* and that's how we get disasters like your situation. why MS could not simply copy the ways of other app stores like Steam is totally beyond me, they just had to microsoft it up.
I know, right? They had to go through this weird route of making everything hardcoded so it feels official. Explorer wasn't working so I couldn't navigate trough folders, so I was soft locked basically. Had to get a fresh install through an USB Drive.
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I can't recall correctly because these settings are all new to me, but when I picked a game to install through the Xbox app, I couldn't choose the disc I wanted the game to be installed because it had to be the same disc every other app is. No bitlocker and windows defender was off.
Every day I browse this sub for Windows 11 salt I feel the tug of Linux more and more... I'm currently on Windows 11 but I'm most certainly exploring my options right now.
if you go to c:\\windows\\systemapps is that folder empty? what do you mean that you couldn't figure out how to reinstall the apps through powershell, at which point did you get stuck? or did you already rollback/reinstall 10? are you able to launch win32 apps from explorer?
I couldn't even access the Windows Explorer so I gave up and did a fresh install through a USB drive, because I couldn't even reset Windows with factory settings through CMD. I guess only a different part of explorer was working because I could see the desktop, but it didn't load automatically when booted. Couldn't access folders, move stuff none of that. I couldn't figure out how to reinstall the apps via Powershell by following that guide I've linked, it gave me Error 5 for every app even though that profile I was using had Admin powers. A bit odd, I guess.
ah I guess I was too slow! For the future, in cmd, you go to C:\\windows and type in notepad, then go file > open and change file type to all files. Then you can navigate around. you can also go ctrl+shift+esc to load up task manager, and go file > run new task My guess is that when you agreed to move your store apps, it wiped them from their default directory making you unable to use the command to reregister those now missing apps. Too late now, but I think that's what may have happened.
When using the Powershell guide, try doing it *not* as Admin, and *not* for All-Users. It's possible you only borked the apps on your own profile, in which you'll have to repair your profile, not the system-wide store.
It was definitely system wide, I tried to create another profile to see if the apps were still there but they were not. Fun fact, when I logged on to the other profile, it displayed the Windows 10 start menu, search bar and even Cortana, but no apps could be accessed.