I cannot open Windows Settings through any shortcut methods

Hello ,

I'm John an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you. I'll be happy to assist you today. I understand you have a problem with windows settings not working. Did you made any changes recently? When was the last time it was working properly?
What is your current Windows operating system and version? Press Windows key+R to open Run then type: winver


Kindly try the suggested methods below.

**Open Start menu then right click the Settings gear icon
Select More > App settings
Click Terminate then Reset
Restart your PC

**Re-register Settings app and built-in apps via Powershell
Windows key+X then select Windows Powershell (Admin)
copy paste the commands below one at a time then press Enter. Please ignore the red errors and let the process complete.

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name windows.immersivecontrolpanel | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml” -Verbose}

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

Restart your Computer

If it doesn't work, Please try to create a new local administrator account.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/402692...


I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any further concerns.


Sincerely

John DeV
Independent Advisor

Hi John,

 Thank you for replying. I tried exactly as you mentioned in the above solution. But It didn't work for me.

I don't know if this is helpful. But I just found out that by trying continuously I was able to see some text appearing in the cmd window in which flashes away. It showed an error message as follows:

ERROR: Access is denied

It was very too fast. Therefore, I failed to grab a screenshot

Do you think there is a fix?

Btw I am sorry for replying this late. I saw that you asked for my PC Details. I hope these screenshots will do the job

   Windows is Activated