

Thus, we can't guarantee their successful outcome or stability on your PC and suggest you take a full backup before trying them out. However, they also diverge from Microsoft's expected defaults. Such modifications are not like "hacking" your OS or are illegal in any way. The Pros and Cons of De-Cluttering Windows 10īefore we proceed, we should make it clear that the scripts we'll see tamper with Windows 10's default configuration. If you, too, find Windows 10 has gotten slower lately and don't care about telling Microsoft how you feel about it (AKA: use its telemetry features), it might be time you de-crapified your OS. We use quotation marks because, for many users, those "features" are practically useless. Today Windows 10 has accumulated enough "features" to bog it down.

It felt even zippier than its precursor, Windows 7, and was compact enough to work with IoT devices. I don’t know what went wrong? All my apps are gone and I’m losing my mind.Īdd-AppxPackage : Cannot find path ‘C:\appxmanifest.xml’ because it does not exist.At the time of release, Windows 10 was Microsoft's leanest and meanest OS. I’ve tried this command, but this is the error I get. You’ll see that the Microsoft Store app is fully installed along with its dependencies. In the PowerShell window, type the following command and press ENTER: Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.WindowsStore | Foreach In the search results, right-click “PowerShell” and click Run as administrator. To restore or reinstall Windows Store in Windows 10, start PowerShell as Administrator. The 2nd method should be used if the Microsoft Store provisioned app package folder doesn’t exist. The 1st method applies if the Microsoft Store app package folder is intact. Here is how to reinstall Microsoft Store. Without the “Windows Store” app, you won’t be able to install or update Store apps. This post tells you how to get back the Microsoft Store app after uninstalling it accidentally using PowerShell. Get-AppXPackage | Remove-AppxPackageĪdditionally, you may get the following error when opening certain Store apps or running wsreset.exe: You'll need a new app to open this ms-windows-store link

If you had used the following command to uninstall all bundled apps in Windows 10, you should have noticed that the much useful “Windows Store” app (now known as “Microsoft Store”) is one of those removed apps.
