Do backup any data you’ve saved in the Modern Apps as all of them will be re-installed. Desktop software and apps won’t be affected though.
- Open Windows PowerShell as Administrator
- Right click Start button
- Choose Command prompt (Admin)
- Key in Powershell in the black window and hit Enter
- Paste the following command in the Administrator: Windows PowerShell window and press Enter key:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} - Wait for PowerShell to execute and complete the command. Ignore the few errors (in red color) that may pop up.
- When it finishes, try hitting Start and hopefully it’ll start working. If not, this solution won’t apply to you, unfortunately.
Are you able to solve it for you by following the procedure mentioned above or it fails? If it it fails, do make sure that you ran Powershell as Administrator (window will be called Administrator: Windows PowerShell ) and gave the command enough time to execute.
Still no luck? You can get everything to work fine by creating a new user account and working under it. You will lose some of your user data, but most of the files and documents can be transferred over by copying the data from Desktop, Documents, Picture and other libraries.
Creating a new user works, unfortunately when you want to create a new user you need access to “add new user” in Settings. Most of the time Setting will also not work.
So you will need to use the command line to add a user (your user account needs to have admin privileges or it won’t work).
– Press CTRL SHIFT ESC to open Task Manager
– press File – Create New Task
– make sure to enable “Create this task with administrative privileges”
– To add a new user account with the login id John and with password PassworD12345 enter
net user John PassworD12345 /ADD
– Restart and try to logon with new user
– For me this didn’t work and user logged out right after logging in
– try now to login with your username