Hello Insiders. There is a known issue for build 18252 that will cause Inbox Apps to not be able to launch after the update for some users. One of the following two fixes should resolve the issue if you run into it.
What: Some Inbox Apps will not launch
When: After updating to build 18252
How to fix:
There are two options on how to fix this.
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Register a specific application that is not launching. They can use partial names as well to accomplish this.
- Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\AppxAllUserStore\Applications\*<PackageName>*\' -Name "Path" | Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register
- EX: Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\AppxAllUserStore\Applications\*WindowsStore*\' -Name "Path" | Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register
- EX: Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\AppxAllUserStore\Applications\*communications*\' -Name "Path" | Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register
- EX: Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\AppxAllUserStore\Applications\*mixed*\' -Name "Path" | Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register
- Register all preinstalled applications. This is more aggressive as it will shutdown any packages currently running, takes several minutes to run as opposed to a few seconds but simpler to use and would fix all preinstalled packages having
this specific issue.
- Get-ItemPropertyValue -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\AppxAllUserStore\Applications\*\' -Name "Path" | Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register -ForceTargetApplicationShutdown
As always, if you have problems getting this to work let me know here in this thread as well as on the Feedback Hub. Thank you.
