Windows 10 Anniversary Update

I was away all day, apologies for the delay.

I just purposely broke my Microsoft Photos Store-App and replicated your experiences with it.

I've figure it had to-do with file, directory permissions for this app.

You should reset permissions on the entire Photos App location.

icacls %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe /T /Q /C /RESET


... don't say I wouldn't ever break something for you.

 

Hey this is cool, thanks. I'm mainly using Windows 10 in VMs. I'd forgotten about the MS prebuilt VMs. After reading though all the posts about all the upgrade issues and gpedit downgrades, I'm not interested at all in upgrading any of my existing Windows 10 installs but a premade VM will do nicely. And it's just a straight download link without the hoops you have to go through do the upgrade.

 

Things that may appear to be boring but ultimately prove to be anything but? When I saw the comments earlier, one thing that popped into my mind was the one VPN issue mobile users can run into. Specifically, a scenario where multiple complimentary tools are necessary to achieve the desired level of protection but "there can be only one". That type of restriction could be imposed upon various interfaces/functions and the "lack of stack" would have some people crying.

 

Anyone else noticed this posted on InfoWorld?

I’ve seen a report on AskWoody.com that the Anniversary Update makes the entire Group Policy setting for Configure Automatic Updates useless. While the gpedit setting for Configure Automatic Updates is still there, changing the setting there has no effect in the Win10 user interface (Start > Settings > Update & security > Update settings). It’s still too early to tell exactly how that’ll work, but the “Available updates will be downloaded and installed automatically” notice appearing in the Settings app does not inspire confidence.

 

I let it run overnight, still running, so hit the power power button.
Got an 'Attempting to recover installation' message, it restarted and carried on from 75% installed ...
It now appears to have completed successfully, but still unsure if I want to continue with this MS experiment e.g. Macrium schedules are broken, what else?

 

Thanks a lot I put it to Power Shell but it returned that the System cannot find the patch.

 

Verify you have the right version of Photos, test the path by using Start \ Run on the following;

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe\​

 

System windows cannot find the item :-(

 

Is there even a folder starting with Microsoft.Windows.Photos_ under that \Packages\ location? You do still have Photos Store-App installed?

 

yes - Microsoft.Windows.Photos_8wekyb3d8bbwe

 

Use Command Prompt with Administrator privileges. Has to-do with PowerShell not resolving %USERPROFILE% (system environment variables)

 

Got - Successfully processed 18 files. Failed 0 files. But Photos still doesn't run. :-(

 

That means it's associated registry settings are with incorrect, corrupted permissions.

 

OK, in other words what shall I do? Uninstall, reinstall plus other tweaks don't work. As I use Windows Photos instead I will probably leave MS Photos, maybe some MS update will bring a fix. If not, I can live with it. However you won't be satisfied as you didn't get over the challange.

 

I wish I had Phant0m's knowledge and laudable persistence, but you might have to perform a clean install...

 

We ruled out everything else. So it's absolutely a permission issue with Photos In the registry.

 

Definitely and I'm grateful for all the help provided.

of what? MS Photos? Within last two days I did it more than 3 times. You didn't mean to reinstall Win 10, didn't you? My machine works fine after anniversary update except Photos and inconsistent reboots but still a Win 10 clean installation isn't option for me.

 

Not giving up on my side at least.. I have an idea that I'm going to test out.

 

OK, I see you're obsessed to resolve it. ;-)

 

I have two AVs installed on Windows and I never run them at the same time.

Microsoft thinks users are stupid and must be protected from themselves.

Why not prevent them from changing anything?

 

Thanks stapp but even if I'm here on Wilders a couple of years I'm not so skilled in windows repair and frankly I never used any of such tools. :-(

 

Not. PC wouldn't boot, even to Macrium boot menu, so had to use recovery media. I think it had even reset boot order, though I can't be certain.
So - back to 1511.

 

There is also a portable version which works just fine as well.

All instructions are provided and it is quite easy to understand.