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Whenever I run WSReset with the Admin or second user account, when WSReset finishes it just brings up a window asking me to select the default app to use to run ms-windows-store. Thing to note: On both the Admin and new user accounts, the Windows Store is apparently not even considered to be installed for some reason. I've tried doing all of these things on the builtin Admin account as well, same results all around. Nothing happens upon clicking a UWP app image. I've tried making a new user account and tried running the app from there, running a UWP app from the new user account doesn't even yield the window opening up with the app's logo on it. I've tried WSReset which just throws me the error message of "ms-windows-store: PurgeCache, The app didn't start" after running every time. I've tried re-registering/reinstalling the Store app with PowerShell (process completes but app still doesn't open). I'm back to square one of not being able to open any of the UWP apps. I did that and have at least fixed everything I broke last night.
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#Microsoft calculator not working install
I tried a laundry list of solutions last night for about 5 hours and I just ended up making things worse so I was suggested to run a repair install of my windows installation using the Media Creation Tool. I did that and now none of my UWP apps (except edge and settings) will only open a window with their logo on it and close within 3-5 seconds of doing so. On a suggestion from a thread I was reading through to help fix the problem, one suggestion was to reset the Windows Store app through settings.
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Though it still wouldn't run after reinstalling. Long story short, I manually uninstalled the xbox app and was able to download and install it from the Windows Store. When I did that, for some reason Windows considered the app uninstalled. I did some troubleshooting and tried resetting the app through Settings. I updated from 1803 to 1809 a couple of days ago and noticed that my Xbox App wouldn't open when I clicked on the icon.