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Muhammad_Kamran625
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Sep 09, 2022

Access Denied error on installing MSIX package

Whenever I try to install any MSIX package by double clicking it on Windows 10, I get this error App installation failed with error message: Access is denied. (0x80070005). When I try to install it ...
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Aditi_Narvekar
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Sep 13, 2022
What version of Windows 10 are you on? Elevation is required on certain versions of windows 10 and beyond
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shuffle2
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Sep 13, 2022

Aditi_Narvekar Can you elaborate? I'm investigating moving an existing desktop application to MSIX packaging but need to support users which do not have local admin / cannot auto-elevate. Is that a supported use case for MSIX? Or has it changed between Windows versions? The application does not use services or need admin for any reason.

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