System Restore fails: AppxStaging %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApp 0x80070091

SoFine409 · 27 Feb 2017

I would give it some time. MS is probably going to fix the buggy app very soon since there's a lot of discussion about this issue.

SoFine409 · 27 Feb 2017

glivo said:

I think you can roll back / uninstall updates in Uninstall programs by selecting to view Microsoft Updates. You just uninstall them like you would any other program. But don't rush into that yet. It may not be the problem.

It may not be an update and it also may not be a buggy app. It might be the update process itself that's to blame. Another member in another thread speculates that it might have something to do with the fact that MS delayed the February security update. Maybe MS knows about the problem and is working on it now.

JSheridan · 27 Feb 2017

SoFine409 said:

It may not be an update and it also may not be a buggy app. It might be the update process itself that's to blame. Another member in another thread speculates that it might have something to do with the fact that MS delayed the February security update. Maybe MS knows about the problem and is working on it now.

Exactly my thoughts. :)

cgdsatx · 28 Feb 2017

Code:

attrib "c:\program files\windowsapps" -h

Code:

rename "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" WindowsAppsold

......

glivo · 28 Feb 2017

cgdstax,
I now notice this was your suggestion. I read it in Capu's post. Credit where it is due.

SimonFastEddy · 28 Feb 2017

To JSheridan from SimonFastEddy

I have just used a System Image from 25th February 2017, that was taken immediately after the installation of Windows 10 v1607 Home 32 bit had concluded. It has no settings changes or downloads of applications to cloud the issue. Very native.

Today 28th February 2017, I installed the image and two restore points were created and a restore to one of them was successful.

So: it is either a Windows Update or an application that is breaking the restore operation. It isn't the Media Creation Tool or the DVD it was saved on.

Good hunting from SimonFastEddy

Capu · 28 Feb 2017

glivo said:

cgdstax,
I now notice this was your suggestion. I read it in Capu's post. Credit where it is due.

I quoted him ^^

Eagle51 · 28 Feb 2017

I just got system restore to work in normal windows, NOT safe mode or recovery.

In trouble shooting the restore point issue. I was cleaning up some apps that I had uninstalled, but for whatever reason left some
folders behind in (c:\ProgramFiles\WindowsApps).
Note: I had uninstalled the apps the normal way - start menu, right click on app and uninstall.
Note: Tried using Powershell Get-AppxPackage *APPNAME* | Remove-AppxPackage, folders still remained.

So I just decided to manually delete the folders. No problems till I got to the folder "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe" ... that I couldn't delete (0x80070091). Taking ownership, granting full user rights, etc didn't help. I found the account DOMAIN\USER permissions were corrupt on some of the folders (specifically the \VFS and its subfolders) and most of the files. Once I was able to get that sorted out and and get that folder deleted, I rebooted (no surprise error/warnings in event viewer), created a new restore point, then restored it successfully.

So, I need someone to verify this, preferably on a clean install, system restore is NOT working and is comfortable with windows permissions.

Look in the "c:\Program Files\WindowsApps" see if you have a folder "Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe"
The account to check is the DOMAIN\USERS.
Try to edit it and see if it gives you a message about the "permissions are corrupted, remove and add again". Sorry, I don't remember the exact message.

Here a list of the folders/files.

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 152508 AppxBlockMap.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 4553 AppxManifest.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 10648 AppxSignature.p7x
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2399952 clienttelemetry.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 116962 FilesystemMetadata.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 33 FilesystemMetadata.xml.md
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 4112432 mso20imm.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 4:44 PM 5893680 mso30imm.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2186800 office.odf
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1625 Officehub_Base_PriConfig.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1604656 officeimm.odf
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2934 Offihub_Base_PriInfo.pri.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 3497984 Registry.dat
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2040 resources.pri
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 56704 StreamMap.xml

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\AppxMetadata

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 22657 CodeIntegrity.cat

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\loc

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 10063 AppXManifestLoc.16.en-us.xml

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Office16

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 428744 OfficeHubBackgroundTask.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 35528 OfficeHubTaskHost.exe
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1952456 OfficeHubWin32.exe

Directory: C:\Program
Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Office16\1033

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 86910 getofficecarousel.dcp
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 37064 officehubintl.dll

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\strings

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 6451 officehubintl.lang-en-us.resw

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\VFS\ProgramF
ilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2268720 ACECORE.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 620080 ACEDAO.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 47152 ACEERR.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 874544 ACEES.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 250416 ACEEXCH.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 527920 ACEEXCL.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 342064 ACEODBC.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 22576 ACEODDBS.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 22576 ACEODEXL.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 22576 ACEODTXT.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 434224 ACEOLEDB.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 242736 ACETXT.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 3056176 ACEWDAT.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 327728 ACEXBE.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 999080 ADAL.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 404608 AirSpace.Etw.man
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 89648 AIRWER.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 491152 EXPSRV.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 200240 EXP_PDF.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 93744 EXP_XPS.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 4142 HeartbeatConfig.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 22965504 MSO.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 4422192 Mso20win32client.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 6462512 Mso30win32client.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 4216880 MSO40UIRES.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 9718320 Mso40UIwin32client.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 67632 mso50win32client.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 7347248 Mso98win32client.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 13090352 MSO99LRES.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 7393840 Mso99Lwin32client.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 164052 MSOICONS.EXE.6.ico
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1446248 MSOIDCLIL.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 830864 MSOIDRES.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 66096 MSOPRIV.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 29384 MsoRes.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 73776 MSOXEV.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 70704 MSOXMLMF.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1514032 MSPTLS.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 658480 MSSOAP30.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 660136 msvcp120.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 963240 msvcr120.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 7699 MUAUTH.CAB
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 29744 MUOPTIN.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 10288 OFFREL.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 32072 OPTINPS.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 32968 oregres.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2675760 RICHED20.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 18584 VBAJET32.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 170032 WISC30.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 158256 WXPNSE.DLL

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\VFS\ProgramF
ilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16\1033

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1652272 MSOINTL.DLL
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 64560 msointl30.dll

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\VFS\ProgramF
ilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16\Cultures

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2186800 OFFICE.ODF

Directory: C:\Program
Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\VFS\SystemX64

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 334616 concrt140.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 639728 msvcp140.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 394504 vccorlib140.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 89328 vcruntime140.dll

SoFine409 · 28 Feb 2017

SimonFastEddy said:

To JSheridan from SimonFastEddy

I have just used a System Image from 25th February 2017, that was taken immediately after the installation of Windows 10 v1607 Home 32 bit had concluded. It has no settings changes or downloads of applications to cloud the issue. Very native.

Today 28th February 2017, I installed the image and two restore points were created and a restore to one of them was successful.

So: it is either a Windows Update or an application that is breaking the restore operation. It isn't the Media Creation Tool or the DVD it was saved on.

Good hunting from SimonFastEddy

FYI, there is some additional information on pages 5-6 of this thread:
File System Filter 'wcifs' EVENT ID 4

SoFine409 · 28 Feb 2017

Eagle51 said:

I just got system restore to work in normal windows, NOT safe mode or recovery.

In trouble shooting the restore point issue. I was cleaning up some apps that I had uninstalled, but for whatever reason left some
folders behind in (c:\ProgramFiles\WindowsApps).
Note: I had uninstalled the apps the normal way - start menu, right click on app and uninstall.
Note: Tried using Powershell Get-AppxPackage *APPNAME* | Remove-AppxPackage, folders still remained.

So I just decided to manually delete the folders. No problems till I got to the folder "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe" ... that I couldn't delete (0x80070091). Taking ownership, granting full user rights, etc didn't help. I found the account DOMAIN\USER permissions were corrupt on some of the folders (specifically the \VFS and its subfolders) and most of the files. Once I was able to get that sorted out and and get that folder deleted, I rebooted (no surprise error/warnings in event viewer), created a new restore point, then restored it successfully.

So, I need someone to verify this, preferably on a clean install, system restore is NOT working and is comfortable with windows permissions.

Look in the "c:\Program Files\WindowsApps" see if you have a folder "Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe"
The account to check is the DOMAIN\USERS.
Try to edit it and see if it gives you a message about the "permissions are corrupted, remove and add again". Sorry, I don't remember the exact message.

Here a list of the folders/files.

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 152508 AppxBlockMap.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 4553 AppxManifest.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 10648 AppxSignature.p7x
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2399952 clienttelemetry.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 116962 FilesystemMetadata.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 33 FilesystemMetadata.xml.md
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 4112432 mso20imm.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 4:44 PM 5893680 mso30imm.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2186800 office.odf
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1625 Officehub_Base_PriConfig.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1604656 officeimm.odf
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2934 Offihub_Base_PriInfo.pri.xml
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 3497984 Registry.dat
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 2040 resources.pri
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 56704 StreamMap.xml

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\AppxMetadata

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 22657 CodeIntegrity.cat

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\loc

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 10063 AppXManifestLoc.16.en-us.xml

Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Office16

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 428744 OfficeHubBackgroundTask.dll
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 35528 OfficeHubTaskHost.exe
-a---- 2/16/2017 5:04 PM 1952456 OfficeHubWin32.exe

Directory: C:\Program
Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.7909.7600.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Office16\1033

I just went to C:\Program Files\Windows Apps and took a look at the Advanced Security Permissions and discovered that the permissions for my user account is corrupted:
$System Restore fails: AppxStaging %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApp 0x80070091-capture-permissions.jpg$