MikeHawthorne Essential Member Microsoft Community Contributor May 14, 2016 #1 Hi My friend called and his apps and start button don't work. I had him run SFC /scannow and that didn't find anything. The next solution was to reinstall all the apps. He is trying to do this through the command prompt by running. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} But when he tries to run the last line it always says it can't find path. Unspecified path. I'm assuming that it should say something in the "InstallLocation" but what? I got this information from this post.... Has your Windows 10 Start menu stopped working? Here are four ways to fix it Anyone know what's going wrong here? Mike
Hi My friend called and his apps and start button don't work. I had him run SFC /scannow and that didn't find anything. The next solution was to reinstall all the apps. He is trying to do this through the command prompt by running. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} But when he tries to run the last line it always says it can't find path. Unspecified path. I'm assuming that it should say something in the "InstallLocation" but what? I got this information from this post.... Has your Windows 10 Start menu stopped working? Here are four ways to fix it Anyone know what's going wrong here? Mike
holdum333 Banned May 14, 2016 #2 Hi Mike! You might give this a look. At the very bottom of this link is a command to restore all Apps. How to Uninstall Windows 10’s Built-in Apps (and How to Reinstall Them)
Hi Mike! You might give this a look. At the very bottom of this link is a command to restore all Apps. How to Uninstall Windows 10’s Built-in Apps (and How to Reinstall Them)
MikeHawthorne Essential Member Microsoft Community Contributor May 14, 2016 #3 Hi That's seems to be exactly the same as the lines above, and it won't run the last line. The first 3 lines work. I'm trying to not have him reset his computer, but it may come to that. I think this may be do to an update, but I'm not sure. Mike
Hi That's seems to be exactly the same as the lines above, and it won't run the last line. The first 3 lines work. I'm trying to not have him reset his computer, but it may come to that. I think this may be do to an update, but I'm not sure. Mike
MikeHawthorne Essential Member Microsoft Community Contributor May 14, 2016 #4 Hi Got it fixed, it was tough getting to the settings screen without having the start menu work, but once there I had him look for Windows updates. There was a new update available and after running it the computer was working after rebooting. Mike
Hi Got it fixed, it was tough getting to the settings screen without having the start menu work, but once there I had him look for Windows updates. There was a new update available and after running it the computer was working after rebooting. Mike
Neemobeer Cloud Security Engineer Staff member May 14, 2016 #5 To the Add-AppxPackage part of that command the Path part, if not declared with the positional switch -Path, needs to be the first argument. Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | ForEach { Add-AppxPackage "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml" -Register -DisableDevelopmentMode }
To the Add-AppxPackage part of that command the Path part, if not declared with the positional switch -Path, needs to be the first argument. Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | ForEach { Add-AppxPackage "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml" -Register -DisableDevelopmentMode }
MikeHawthorne Essential Member Microsoft Community Contributor May 15, 2016 #6 Thanks that makes sense, as I said we did finally get it fixed. A Windows update caused it and another one fixed it.
Thanks that makes sense, as I said we did finally get it fixed. A Windows update caused it and another one fixed it.
BIGBEARJEDI Fantastic Member Premium Supporter May 16, 2016 #7 Yes, "We" did, but I think we also got a little lucky on this one...