My Firewall and Microsoft Store on Windows 11 is so broken, 0x8007045B 0x80073D02, no paint or caculator or notepad app, can't install any apps from the store or use winget

Anonymous
2023-02-03T06:46:51+00:00

Version: 22H2 Build 22621.1105 It was upgraded from Windows 10.

MS Store version: 22212.1401.5.0

Windows Paint and Caculator and notepad has shortcuts in the start menu, however in the Apps->installed app, search them yield no results.

Tring to install Windows Paint in the store, after it finished downloading, it will always fail saying Code: 0x8007045B

Checked Windows Caculator and it is saying update, still stuck on doing update since I last time tried to install it.

The error code here is Code: 0x80073D02

Tried to install a package through winget and it reported error 0x8007045B

Trouble shooting:

Time and date is synced.

Tried to sign out of MS Store and reboot.

Tried to run wsreset.exe, it opens MS Store and I have already signed in again. Here I dont think it is working as supposed, if I have signed out, and do wsreset, should I still have the status of signed out?

Tried to run

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

in PS as admin, error:

...

Add-AppxPackage : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '\AppXManifest.xml'.

At line:1 char:28

  • ... | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $($_.In ... 
  •             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    • CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Add-AppxPackage], ParameterBindingException
    • FullyQualifiedErrorId : PositionalParameterNotFound,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.AddAppxPackag
    eCommand

Try to run winget upgrade

Failed in attempting to update the source: winget

Failed when searching source; results will not be included: winget

winget source reset --force

Resetting all sources...Done

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-10-26T19:08:44+00:00

    Best post on Microsoft communities. The only time a contribution has actually solved any of my problems

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-03T14:34:54+00:00

    OMG, THIS FIX MY EXACT PROBLEM!!

    Thank you for sharing the solution! It's been several months since this post, Windows's messy code will stay and I'm afraid more unfortunate souls will stumble upon this absurd error in the future, (Me being the unfortunate one) I almost gave up but lucky enough the search algorithm sent me here.

    Storytime:
    Normally I wouldn't be here as I stay on Windows 10, but then I got 2 graphic cards installed, The Problem was I couldn't utilize which GPU for which application because Win10 listed both of them as High Performance, Then I found out that Windows 11 insider preview got many features and one of them is what I needed; To specify dedicated GPU to the application. I don't want to upgrade at first but there's no alternative.

    After the upgrade and I got what I needed, it soon started to get funny as the firewall wouldn't open and the Windows store just couldn't install anything, I spent hours googling, restarting dozens of times, and messing with Terminal and Powershell by following internet instructions, downgrade then upgrade again, in the end, I'm back to square one as none of them works, it was kind of my fault as I'm doing this in one of my most important PC as almost all of my personal and files data in it. It was constant fear and frustration at the same time.

    I'm kind of sympathetic to Microsoft, but this alone tarnishes my thoughts about this company. I already don't like Win11, I don't want simple style right-click context menus, Everything feels less snappy, especially Firefox for some reason it's extremely slow!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-16T08:23:08+00:00

    Glad this helped you.

    As you can see on that forum post a lot of people having the same issue.

    And it could have been inherited even you upgrade from 10 to 11, or do an in place upgrade/reinstall of windows.

    It is an issue , Microsoft should do something with this issue, however that is beyond our reach.

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