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Hey guys, I'm having massive problems with my metro apps. At first, they worked for like 2 months now, all fine and dandy. Today, I tried running the weather app to check up on the freezing cold outside, to find that my apps didn't work at all. They would start up normally, full screen with the big icon in the middle, but then suddenly close. This happened every time I tried the apps; the only one that still worked was the "Store" app. So I tried reinstalling the news app to see if it is still broken after that - now it stays at the loading screen forever until I close it (with the little circles spinning under the icon).
So as I had my UAC turned all the way down to "do not notify" but was still getting annoying messages, I tried the fix in the previous post to turn off UAC completely in hopes that this would get rid of the annoying messages and also maybe fix my apps. My apps are still broken, but the annoying messages are almost gone (only messing around deep inside the Windows folder pops some messages up).
So my question: how do I go about fixing my apps? I've tried reinstalling them, updating them, starting them about a million times, hoping every time that they would miraculously work (it's Christmas - miracles could happen?) - NOTHING.
I've read that many users with Avast antivirus have had the same issues, but I don't have Avast nor any other free antivirus; I have ESET installed, also tried disabling that to no avail.
Funny thing is, this is the first OS that I've legitimately acquired and activated. Probably the last one after this nuisance of a problem.
EDIT: Thanks for moving this to the proper section, whoever did it
The first time I noticed this problem was today, so I uninstalled the 5 updates I had today. We'll see if it solves my problem.
Update: Nope, still no working metro apps. Any tips on what I could try? I'm all for troubleshooting and I'm comfortable in changing registry values if needed. I'd just like to get this thing to run as stable as Windows 7 did!
Update 2: Now randomly after I restarted my PC after uninstalling the updates from today, most of my startup programs are not starting up at all. Need advice, and quick!
So as I had my UAC turned all the way down to "do not notify" but was still getting annoying messages, I tried the fix in the previous post to turn off UAC completely in hopes that this would get rid of the annoying messages and also maybe fix my apps. My apps are still broken, but the annoying messages are almost gone (only messing around deep inside the Windows folder pops some messages up).
So my question: how do I go about fixing my apps? I've tried reinstalling them, updating them, starting them about a million times, hoping every time that they would miraculously work (it's Christmas - miracles could happen?) - NOTHING.
I've read that many users with Avast antivirus have had the same issues, but I don't have Avast nor any other free antivirus; I have ESET installed, also tried disabling that to no avail.
Funny thing is, this is the first OS that I've legitimately acquired and activated. Probably the last one after this nuisance of a problem.
EDIT: Thanks for moving this to the proper section, whoever did it
The first time I noticed this problem was today, so I uninstalled the 5 updates I had today. We'll see if it solves my problem.
Update: Nope, still no working metro apps. Any tips on what I could try? I'm all for troubleshooting and I'm comfortable in changing registry values if needed. I'd just like to get this thing to run as stable as Windows 7 did!
Update 2: Now randomly after I restarted my PC after uninstalling the updates from today, most of my startup programs are not starting up at all. Need advice, and quick!
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