Do not delete or change anything in this folder unless you know exactly what you are doing. You may or may not be a regular user of modern apps that are available on Microsoft Store on your Windows 11/10, but at times, you might want to check out good apps available on the Microsoft Store. Please keep in mind that file operations in this folder can break installed Store apps and make them unusable. Open the folder and confirm the UAC prompt: This should be enough to browse the contents of the folder. Tick the checkbox "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" and click Apply. Select the Administrators group as the new owner.
You might be asked to enter the password of the Administrator account. In the next dialog, click the link Change under Owner. In the Properties dialog window, go to the Security tab. Now, right-click the WindowsApps folder and select Properties from the context menu. If it is not visible, enable hidden files in File Explorer. Open the Program files folder (the parent folder of WindowsApps) in File Explorer.įind the WindowsApps folder in the list. To open the WindowsApps folder in Windows 10, do the following. You must be signed in with an administrative account to continue. This will require a number of steps from you. If you want to access the WindowsApps folder, you need to adjust its file system permissions. Once you open it, an error message appears "You have been denied permission to access this folder". Even when visible, the permissions pre-configured for this folder do not allow the user to open it. This folder is hidden, so you need to enable hidden files in File Explorer. The most common path to that folder is: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to resolve this? I haven't found any solutions outside of the ones listed above and am open to anything at this point.Advertisement The WindowsApps folder is located on the operating system drive under the Program Files directory. I looked through a couple older posts on this subreddit from a couple years ago but none of those solutions worked for me. Similarly, WSReset just gives the error message: Windows cannot find 'ms-windows-store:PurgeCaches' With all variations of the powershell commands, I just get a message saying it cannot find the path C:\Windows\WinStore\appxmanifest.xml because the directory does not exist. When I went to open the Microsoft Store to do that (the only place to get iTunes now since Apple redirects you to the store), the store seems to look like it wants to open but then the window closes and nothing happens.ġ) Running various powershell commands like this: add -appxpackage -disabledevelopmentmode -register $env:systemroot/winstore/appxmanifest.xml"Ģ) Using DISM to scan and fix the image (which seemed to do something since the scan found something to be corrupted and RestoreHealth seemed to fix that issue)ģ) Creating a new user to see if the commands would resolve the issueĪt this point, I'm not quite sure what to do. I was having some trouble with iTunes so I decided to uninstall and reinstall. I've spent the better part of today looking for solutions to this problem so I thought I would post on reddit.
You should go to the Microsoft Store and update the app to the latest.
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