Windows 10: Apps are broken? After a windows update.

This happened after a windows 11 update I believe I just remember it was a newest system/windows required update a month or two ago. After I installed this update no apps would open. The only things I can open are the start menu, task manager, and microsoft edge. But if I look something up on microsoft edge it never loads. I can look up stuff on the start menu but again nothing loads and I can't open any apps from this menu. I gave up and left it alone for a while after I couldn't fix it until I decided to try again now. It's the exact same as before but I can open the file explorer applicatio

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Mail app will not open on 10041.

Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)

 

Windows Phone users Clubhouse

I think I'll put a list of people's favourite apps in the OP, starting with my own until I get some suggestions, but you can take a look at the Windows Phone app store at the top apps to see what's popular Microsoft Store – Apps, Spiele und mehr für Ihren Windows-PC herunterladen

You are both now added, welcome! *Toast :toast:

 

Many built-in Windows apps broken since late April / early May 2016

Repair Upgrade-Keeps everything including applications,files and data(just like you upgraded from Windows 7/8 to 10 which kept everything)

Clean Install-Removes everything and puts the older windows into windows.old.

You might also go through this to try if the apps work.

• Steps for fixing broken apps in Windows 10

PS sorry Greg for taking over.