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assybish:
Can anyone please help a weird issue that has developed with win 8.1?

 All apps show on tiles an error and greyed x in the corner and all fail to open with error .. refresh your computer etc ...
 But all metro interfaces also fail with an error message for example settings, windows update, also can't even add a new user as I thought may be creating a new user would over come corruption and then I could transfer the files from main user to new user but no can't as the metro screen to add a new user crashes too with same error message.

 I tried using the powershell commend to change apps store but it failed to find or open
 tried wsreset etc
 tried all troubleshooters and fixits

Tried win repair which was unable to run DISM due to not finding source error and some of the registry fixes seem not to work as they cannot be accessed
Event vwr shows apps error  id 5973 task category 5973 every time an app/metro app tries to open

 I think it may be linked to permissions or a user profile corruption but I cannot fix it despite trying everything I know eg SFC scannow - no corruption found
 DISM online fails with cannot find the source ...

 My last resort but am holding back is to try an inplace repair using upgrade from a win 8.1 ISo.

 Has anyone any ideas what can be done to restore win apps and metro interface. The standards explorer works as does control panel. Getting close to going back to win 7!!

Any ideas please?   :confused:

Boggin:
I've never used Win 8.# but have read that sometimes booting up into Safe Mode and then a reboot can resolve some problems,

Have you tried the Windows Repair program in Safe Mode with Networking - use Option 5 to back up the registry before running the repairs.

assybish:
I will try but booting to safe mode in Win8 is a complete pain in the A** thanks for the reply This really is odd damn metro and modern apps and their separate permissions etc !!

Boggin:
Use the Windows Repair program to boot up into Safe Mode with Networking.

www.tweaking.com

assybish:
OK forgot that option thanks  - networking doesn't work with win 8 or 10 as the wifi is not possible only a LAN wired connection - another piece of Microsoft idiocy so DISM online fails anyway!

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