{"id":1497,"date":"2020-12-16T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:31:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:31:54","slug":"windows-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2020\/12\/windows-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So this all started because I was unable to open the Windows Security Center.  It just wouldn&#8217;t open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried to open SecHealthUI.exe directly (C:\\Windows\\SystemApps\\Microsoft.Windows.SecHealthUI*\\) and that failed out. Eventviewer showed Faulting application name: sechealthui.exe, faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll. Someone wanted me to re-run the kernelbase.dll registry (regsvr32 kernelbase.dll) which doesn&#8217;t do anything unless you give yourself administrative privs to the kernelbase.dll file. And didn&#8217;t fix my issue anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What did help me was re-installing all of the Windows Apps with the following powershell command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>windows key + x<\/li><li><strong>Select <\/strong><em>Windows Powershell (Admin)<\/em><\/li><li><code>Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register \"$($_.InstallLocation)\\AppXManifest.xml\"}<\/code><\/li><li>Profit<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, because this is entitled &#8220;Widnows Apps&#8221;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Uninstall XBox Windows-related items<\/span><\/li><li><strong>Select <\/strong><em>Windows Powershell (Admin)<\/em><\/li><li><code>Get-AppXPackage *xboxapp* -AllUsers | Remove-AppXPackage<\/code><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this all started because I was unable to open the Windows Security Center. It just wouldn&#8217;t open. I tried to open SecHealthUI.exe directly (C:\\Windows\\SystemApps\\Microsoft.Windows.SecHealthUI*\\) and that failed out. Eventviewer showed Faulting application name: sechealthui.exe, faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll. Someone wanted me to re-run the kernelbase.dll registry (regsvr32 kernelbase.dll) which doesn&#8217;t do anything unless you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2020\/12\/windows-apps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows Apps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}