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Upgrade from 18356.16 to 18362.1 fails
So, I managed to Upgrade to 18362.1 after having had the same problem everyone discussed but now I seem to have messed up my WindowsApps beyond repair - at least none of the solutions listed worked for me so far.
What I did was: Used https://www.uupdump.ml/ to get a dump of the update, edit the manifest file as described in the thread, repackage the ISO, mount it, install the update et voila. So far so good.
Now, my UWP got messed up, so I ran
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
as an admin and this fixed SOME of the problems.
Still, Microsoft Store wasn't working, e.g. the Calculator app among others wasn't starting (only getting vague error messages like "There’s a problem with Calculator. Contact your system administrator about repairing or reinstalling it.") and so on.
Changing permissions (taking ownership, modifying access control) on WindowsApps didn't help.
Modifying the registry (deleting everything under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppModel\StateChange) as described above seems to have made the situation worse - some apps that were working before stopped working and now I basically have to re-apply the PowerShell-command I mentioned every time to semi-fix everything.
Microsoft Store and all non-working apps are greyed-out in the Start Menu... Tried purging the MS Store cache but it gives me an error that it cannot start the Store. Creating another user account didn't fix it either.
DISM and SFC don't recognize any problems...
I'm slowly running out of ideas how to fix the apps.
I was certainly wrong as well. I did get it to upgrade and did get some windows apps to work again. But still couldn't get the Store to work. Plus from that, it messed up a few other things as well - all things Abode. I ended up having to do a fresh install to just get things working again. That was a pain.
Though this new build did present some really nice things, like the file folder sorting is much much displayed. But for anyone reading, I HIGHLY recommend DO NOT upgrade to this new build, wait for MS to fix it. They did pull the build from the servers already.
TheNerdBoy Thanks for the confirmation that I wasn't being the only silly person to have failed in such a way.
Isn't there any way of getting the Windows Store package from a healthy installation and then installing it manually? I feel that would solve the problem.
Meanwhile I rolled back to the previous version of Windows and needless to say that didn't help either...
Update: Something very weird is going on with the WindowsApps folder. No matter what permissions I set on it I cannot do anything with it - create, modify files or anything...
I have tried the windows folder permission, auditing, etc. I even went as far as deleting the WindowsApps folder and copying it from a laptop, as well as the registry key. I ran Ubuntu from a flash drive to do that.
Rolling back to the previous build did nothing but make things worse for me.
There is something in the code of the OS that is written differently than before that is cause this.
For now, updates are on pause.
TheNerdBoy A miracle happened! 18362.30 just rolled out today and it fixed everything... My standard apps are back, the Store works - some Apps failed updating due to some weird errors but after reinstalling them they now work just fine.