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The feature is expected to arrive for Windows Insiders with a future build of Windows 10 pretty soon. However, as it turns out, the new Share UI is already in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview builds. At the moment, the new Share UI is quite buggy and incomplete in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build.
Greetings, Microsoft!
Recently, I noticed that some parts of my Windows 10 installation are not working, and I'd like to get them back.
Here's a list of what's not working:
- PC settings (or the 'immersive' control panel) → this just doesn't open at all.
- Photos, Groove and other 'Store' apps → doesn't work. at all. Instead, they take a couple of minutes, and give me this:
'File system error (-2147219200). ' - Microsoft Store → doesn't work at all, either. I suspect that actually none of my 'store' apps work.
- Start Menu, Timeline, Win + X, right-click on Taskbar → does not open, any of them. does not spit any error messages.
- Time/Clock in the tray-bar → does not open the usual calendar menu, or anything at all.
- Action Center → does not open, at all.
- Cortana → same as everything else.
- Edge → does not work, the icon in taskbar has disappeared (the button is still there, it just doesn't have an icon).
- Taskbar JumpList → does not work with either right-click nor pulling it up.
- ShellExperienceHost.exe is not running, and manually starting it causes a `CrashDumps` file to be created.
What I have already checked:
- SFC /scannow → Microsoft's popular tool to check and restore system health, does nothing but reporting mscormmc.dll mismatches. Not useful.
- DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth → Again, doesn't seem to report any issues or restoring any health.
- Couple of other 'fixing' methods which actually involve re-installation/re-registration of Windows components.
With all due respect, please understand that I do NOT have a broken Windows installation, so running those repairing tools above have already been tested and confirmed NOT to work for me.
I need to mention that I have installed some customization tools on Windows, and I believe a recent update package could have caused this.
Furthermore, I have signed-in with my Microsoft account into Windows, if that helps. I'm currently running OS Build 17134.165 (version 1803) and I believe the amount of RAM, CPU and other types of hardware resources are irrelevant to this issue, so I refrain from stating them.
Here's a list of What I have installed:
- Classic Shell: replaces Windows 10's default Start Menu. This one actually works, even better than native Start Menu UI in Windows 10.
- 7+ Taskbar Tweaker: adds the missing features that I need from the taskbar (e.g. re-order tasks, scroll to change volume)
- Winaero Tweaker was used to disable a few, unrelated parts of Windows.
- I also used to have Aero Glass 8, but that's disabled at the moment.
- I use the latest version of ESET Internet Security as my anti-virus, and have disabled Defender, if that also helps to mention.
So, now to the actual troubleshooting:
- Disabling anti-virus → does nothing, still the same.
- Exiting Classic Shell → does nothing, still the same.
- Stopping 7+ Taskbar Tweaker → does nothing, still the same.
- Rebooting is safe-mode:success! the native taskbar works, photos works, but MS store doesn't work.
(I see a lot of non-crucial services are stopped in safe mode. I have Apache, MariaDB and some services installed.) - Back to normal mode, disabled the aforementioned services → does not work. Still the same.
- Give 'ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES' permission to C:Program FilesWindowsApps → does not solve the issue.
- Restarted my machine, many times. → the age-old general-purpose solution does not come to my aid here, unfortunately.
- Sign-in with another account: → I temporarily enabled the Administrator account on my machine and logged-in with that, which seems to fix the issues above, but I do NOT want to replace my account profile.
At this point, it seems to be either a registry issue, or something with the files in C:Users directory, not the files in the actualy C:WINDOWS directory.
Let's try some Microsoft '.diagcab' troubleshooting wizards:
apps.diagcab / Appsdiagnostic10.diagcab
- Asks to turn on UAC → doesn't seem to do anything. Windows Store Apps worked before with UAC disabled, and I read many more users complained about the same thing, so I ignore this as being irrelevant.
- Starts BITS service and tweaks registry.
- Complains that 'Service registration is missing or corrupt' and it has fixed it → does nothing. Start Menu, PC settings, and Photos still do NOT open.
I have searched both 'answers.microsoft.com' and the rest of the web for a solution to this, and I haven't found out anything.
Things that are out of question for me:
- Re-install, Refresh, re-set Windows → No way, this system has way more configuration on it to remove it from existence. Besides, I know that 're-installing' windows will certainly fix the problem, that is painfully obvious. What that may not be obvious to you is that what you are suggesting is not a solution (which I'm asking for), it's instead clearing the issue.
- Create or sign-in to a new account → For (mostly) the same reason as above. I have many types of configuration in my %AppData% directory, and losing them is also ludicrous. And is also clearing the issue, not solving it.
Conclusion: Something is preventing from me accessing the 'apps' things of windows. All other types of executables still work.
I'd like to kindly ask you to help me find the cause of this, so I can know how to exactly solve this issue.
I'll be glad to provide any kind of testing/debugging/logs, etc, to trace the issue. I want to know why this is happening.
Could you please help me?
UPDATE: Someone else seems to be having the same problem as me, here: https://reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4w0p1l/
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P.S. Thanks for understanding my issue, I do not need you to declare it, please, and sorry.
I would really appreciate it, if you could just get to the point.
- I'm sorry, I don't want to be rude, but please if you are posting a reply, do not post a non-useful one.
- I'm tired of reading 'Hi, I understand your problem and I will be assisting you today'.
- I'm also tired of reading 'do sfc /scannow' and do 'dism /....'. As I said, I already have done that.
- I fully know and understand that this is a free, 'public community' service. I do not expect fast nor precise replies.
Take your time, and share your knowledge, if you can guide me on how to resolve my issue.
I'm really sorry for sounding so demanding like that, but I would really like to get an actual answer here, not customer service or tech support. :(
Thank you for your time.