I just moved the contents of windowsappsold back to windowsapps after I restored the system , you'll probably have to unhide the windowsapps folder and maybe do it in safe mode but if I recall I...

Glivo , I was referring to the people who are having trouble renaming when they're putting the full path for both when it doesn't take the full path for the rename part ie.
"c:\program...

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


rename "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps" WindowsAppsold




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perhaps going and reading all the post on here and not "cherry picking" and you might have better luck, I restored a laptop 5x until I figured out how to fix the sound issue caused by KB3213986. All...

"C:\Program Files\WindowsApps"

I assume this is all because of the way windows 10 handles safe mode now, namely that it goes in to a "recovery environment" that doesn't require a "user" log in.

there are many files and folders that are system only

are you trying to create a restore?

smh

it makes a new windows app folder during restore you can copy and drag the stuff from the old to the new if you want
probably doesn't matter but if you want to you can do this

How to reinstall...

are you going into safe mode with your user account or as Administrator? It works so I'm not sure what your doing

THIS IS FOR en-us language if your system is another language you WILL have to get the proper command options (as in the Y is the first letter of whatever "yes" is in your language)


boot to...