Reinstall and Re-register Apps in Windows 10  

FreeBooter said:

Some characters are reserved in the command line, including @ < > & | ^. Before you use these characters, you must escape them with the caret symbol (^).

Hi FreeBooter,

yeah that is first thing what I tried, but It does not help.

I tried extra curly brackets, change quotes, split to more commands.

Nothing help. Maybe there is no way how to solve like this, but If you don´t ask you don´t get.

@MrBlonde, try the following line of commands:

Code:

PowerShell Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers^| Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register \"$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml\"}

Matthew Wai said:

@MrBlonde, try the following line of commands:

Code:

PowerShell Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers^| Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register \"$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml\"}

Hi Matthew,

It works!

have you idea why my command with escape charakters does not work?

I think that you must call command only throw PowerShell -Command "&...".

I am just curious, do you know difference between my and your solution?

Thanks for reply
Mr.Blonde

@MrBlonde,
You had not escaped characters in your commands, which consequently did not work.
-Command "&..." is not needed at my end. I have no idea why you need it.

I get this Error

Add-AppxPackage : Cannot find path 'C:\AppXManifest.xml' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:38
+ ... | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.I ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\AppXManifest.xml:String) [Add-AppxPackage], ItemNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.AddAppxPackageCommand

Is there any way for me to get this file that is apparently required?

MsKuromi said:

I get this Error

Add-AppxPackage : Cannot find path 'C:\AppXManifest.xml' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:38
+ ... | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.I ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:\AppXManifest.xml:String) [Add-AppxPackage], ItemNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.AddAppxPackageCommand
Is there any way for me to get this file that is apparently required?

You will have to get the full App name by using this code and looking for "Maps" and you will find something similar to "Microsoft.WindowsMaps_10.2011.6.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe":

Code:

Get-AppxPackage -allusers | Select Name, PackageFullName

Then replace the FullAppName:

Code:

Add-AppxPackage -register "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\FullAppName\AppxManifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode

rdwray said:

You will have to get the full App name by using this code and looking for "Maps" and you will find something similar to "Microsoft.WindowsMaps_10.2011.6.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe":

Code:

Get-AppxPackage -allusers | Select Name, PackageFullName

Then replace the FullAppName:

Code:

Add-AppxPackage -register "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\FullAppName\AppxManifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode

ok, well unfortunately non of those files even exist... even after fresh re-installs. so..... what can I do?

MsKuromi said:

ok, well unfortunately non of those files even exist... even after fresh re-installs. so..... what can I do?

Did you get a list of Apps?????
You can go to Microsoft Store (or search for "Windows Maps" online) and search for the App you want and install it. One heads up, it may say that you own the App and will not install it, in that case, there isn't anything that can be done, but I don't think that will happen.

rdwray said:

Did you get a list of Apps?????
You can go to Microsoft Store (or search for "Windows Maps" online) and search for the App you want and install it. One heads up, it may say that you own the App and will not install it, in that case, there isn't anything that can be done, but I don't think that will happen.

there is no store. can't open it, can't Repair it, can't reset it.