[Win 10] A few apps crash/close as soon as they are started.

[apav]

Hi guys, so a few apps are giving me issues and I can't seem to fix them.

Problems:
Apps that completely crash or close out when I start them: Xbox, People, Phone Companion. Groove Music and Movies and TV crash on startup 99% of the time, but for whatever random reason they have opened up once or twice since I noticed the crashing and didn't crash, only to crash again when I close and reopen them.

Other: Money opens and stays open, but it says that an error has occured and clicking the refresh this page button does nothing. Weather opens, but the entire screen is blank except for a little blue circle.

The rest of the stock apps seemingly work as intended.

What I've tried:
I've tried everything I know of.

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

Doing this gives me this same error for most apps as the command was executing. When it's finished, it does the exact opposite of what it intends to do and breaks most apps. I've tried this a few same command a few times, sometimes the problem apps like Xbox and Groove Music work, but the rest don't. Other times most apps don't work at all. I've also tried manually removing the problem apps through Powershell and reinstalling them from the Windows store, but they still crash at startup. Wsreset.exe also does nothing either. No updates for windows or the apps in the store. I'm able to start over and try again thanks to a restore point where only the apps I listed above are broken.

Possible causes:
I can only think of one instance that might have caused this. I downloaded and used Destroy Windows Spying, but I only selected certain options. I also added a registry key to disable Telemetry and stopped two services called Connected User Experiences and Telemetry and dmwappushsvc since I didn't want to delete them which the tool would've done. That is where my restore point is from, and unfortunately I don't have any restore points before that. I can't think why this would mess up certain apps, I did have the deletion of Metro apps disabled in the tool afterall. I have done nothing else to my computer lately, so it was either this or the Threshold 2 update.

Does anyone have more suggestions I haven't thought of, or had a similar issue but was able to fix? Thank you!

 

[B00nie]

Heh so the modern crap crashes? How come I'm not surprised.

Turn back your overclock to stock and then see if the crashes continue.

 

[heatlesssun]

So were these apps working before the Threshold 2 update?

 

[apav]

Heh so the modern crap crashes? How come I'm not surprised.

Turn back your overclock to stock and then see if the crashes continue.

Didn't work, my entire system is stable anyway. Good try though!

So were these apps working before the Threshold 2 update?

I can't really say, I didn't try using them until after I both applied the update and used that tool. I don't have any restore points from before the update.

 

[ccman]

That sounds like a problem I had with Windows 8.1 and video drivers. I experienced the same thing with some apps crashing immediately while others would crash in use. Getting the correct video driver worked for me. I believe Windows Store Apps use graphics acceleration or at least Direct2D and DirectDraw.

It doesn't sound like anything you did would have broken anything. It's smart that you didn't delete any services.

You could try creating a new account and see if the new account has the problem, as I think apps are account specific (just to see if they all at least launch).

 

[apav]

Unfortunately that didn't do anything either. I'll try making a new account.