Re-install Microsoft Store and Photos

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Windows 10 Pro – Version 20H2, build 19042.964.

Through my own futzing around, I have disabled Microsoft Store and also Photos, and am looking for a way to restore their functionality.

I have tried a number of options, mainly downloading the EAPPXBundle file for the Store, but it doesn’t work.  If I click on the Store, there is a very transitory window border, but nothing launches.  Ditto with Photos.

Would it help to re-install the Windows 10 OS?  I have downloaded an ISO of Win 10 20H2 on to a USB drive, but thought that I would post here before running the re-instal and possibly making things worse.  Is an OS re-instal going to achieve the desired result?

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Try How to Re-register Microsoft Store app in Windows 10

and the Windows Store Apps Troubleshooter at Settings, Update & Security, Troubleshooting, Additional troubleshooters, Windows Store Apps.

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ScotchJohn

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I think you have to re-install/repair Windows in order to get the Store back.

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ScotchJohn

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B – thanks, neither of those worked.

The troubleshooter returned “Unresponsive or crashing apps”.  The re-registration command ran, but launching the Store still gives a transient outline of an app window.

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Try Susan’s “reinstall over the top” fix.

cheers, Paul

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ScotchJohn

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This worked for me

 

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-windows-store-windows-10-uninstall-with-powershell/

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B, Alex and Paul T – thanks for your suggestions.

Unfortunately, the extent of my screw-up was such that the in-place / over-the-top re-install did not solve the problem.  Fortunately, I had taken weekly Macrium Reflect differential images, and recalled that the Store had been there in the second half of April.  At the second attempt, I had a good restore, from my 18 April image.  I had a few files to recover in the three-week interim, and am more or less back to where I wanted to be.

Score one for Macrium Reflect!

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