Cannot open Windows Apps

[Snowghost11]

Last night I had a failure (Windows 8.1), I had Opera and a folder open when I put my PC to sleep. But it took suspiciously long and seemed to shutdown instead of sleeping. When I turned it back on, Opera was closed, but the folder was still opened. Turns out some temp files were damaged, I lost my Opera settings and bookmarks, also Winamp was reset. Chkdsk fixed a lot of stuff.

The problem now - when I open the File Explorer and change (move or resize), then close and open again, the window is always reset in the center of the screen.
The bigger problem - I cannot open Windows apps, including Settings and AppStore. The icon appears in the botton panel, but the only thing I can do is close it.

I tried:

• 
  MalwareBytes - nothing found (I also have Eset running)
  sfc /scannow - no problems found
  regedit - one of the folder was not allowed for "all application packages", fixing did not help
  C:\Program Files\WindowsApps - in security, there is no all application packages, there is this (not sure how it is supposed to look)
  • 
    TrustedInstaller
    System
    System
    Adminstrators
    Local Service
    Local Service
    Network Service
    Network Service
  Windows App Troubleshooter - error 0x80070002 (lower says "limited permissions")
  command prompt powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\WinStore\AppxManifest.xml - big red error 0x80073CFE

 

[Paul NZ]

Try this

a. Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.

b. Type the following commands. Press Enter after each command.
· DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
· DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

c. Close the command prompt, and then check if you can install, run the apps.

Looks like this was a prob with 8.1 . It may have been an update. that caused it. KB2919355

 

[decentgamer]

Is User account control on?
Or try this:
Open Local Security Policy or run secpol.msc
Click on Local Policies > Security Options
Scroll down and you will see User Account control: run all administrators in admin approval mode.
Enable it.


Hope this helps!

 

[Snowghost11]

Try this

a. Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type the password, or click Allow.

b. Type the following commands. Press Enter after each command.
· DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
· DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

c. Close the command prompt, and then check if you can install, run the apps.

Looks like this was a prob with 8.1 . It may have been an update. that caused it. KB2919355

Than you for your reply! The results are here:
Scanhealth:
The component store is repairable.
The operation completed successfuly.

Restorehealth:
Error: 0x80240021
DISM failed. No operation was performed.
For more information, review the log file.

Is User account control on?
Or try this:
Open Local Security Policy or run secpol.msc
Click on Local Policies > Security Options
Scroll down and you will see User Account control: run all administrators in admin approval mode.
Enable it.

It already was enabled.

I have to leave now, when I'm back I might try a repair from a USB drive, I happen to have one with recovery media ready. I also failed to mention that I haven't updated Windows in about three months. Also had some problems, PC dies during some games, looks like CPU overheating, might be the cause of this corruption.

 

[Paul NZ]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-update/dism-online-restore-health-function-gets-error/4183685b-7d52-458c-b818-045369b98380

 

[Snowghost11]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-update/dism-online-restore-health-function-gets-error/4183685b-7d52-458c-b818-045369b98380

StartComponentCleanup was succesful, RestoreHealth failed with the same error.
I can't even run an installation from USB to repair.