After more work than I'm willing to admit, I managed to acquire almost full access to the WindowsApps folder. My issue now is that while I can overwrite and copy files (except for executables, for some reason) from the folders within (such as \Microsoft.ScreenSketch_10.2008.2277.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\ and all files inside of it), I am unable to add new files. I'm attempting to mod a game from Gamepass that doesn't have mod support, but it requires that I add additional files to the directory. I've managed to transfer ownership of the WindowsApps folder and everything within to my user account, but I am still unable to edit permissions on most files. The executable files are locked-down even more than the others, as they have security permission inheritance disabled and cannot have their permissions edited at all (they claim to be corrupted, but quite clearly are meant to be this way), nor can I create new user permissions. I eventually got tired of all this, and just decided to copy all the files on to a Linux VM and just use Wine to run the game, and since it would be Linux I could edit files as I pleased. Come to find out, I can't copy the executables. As previously stated, they have inheritance disabled and I can't edit their UAC at all. I have full administrator permissions, yet everything in this folder seems to ignore this. Even an elevated Powershell can't edit anything.
The fact that Microsoft locks down these files so much is really quite annoying. I am yet to find any example of someone managing to do much of anything with the WindowsApps folder beyond what I have managed to do. Administrator means nothing if I don't have full access to my device. I hate that Microsoft locks me out of parts of my own PC.
Any help is appreciated, but I'm not very optimistic that anything can be done.
