Error 2503 when uninstalling since 22H2


JohnnyGui

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Ever since clean installing 22H2, uninstalling certain drivers or apps such as Bluetooth or Visual Redistributables via the installed Apps settings or Control Panel spits out an error code 2503 which seems to be a permission error. This makes me unable to uninstall these apps through the normal way.

Everytime I want to uninstall something, I'd have to download the original app installer which detects I have already installed the app and thus giving me the uninstall option, which works succesfully for some reason.

I didn't have this issue with previous versions of Windows 11 (22H1 etc). Sfc /scannow shows no errors.

Apart from fiddling with the system permission settings of Windows, is anyone else having this issue with 22H2?
 
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22621.819
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows Pro 11 22H2 Build 22621.1992
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Custom built
    CPU
    i5-12600K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4
    Memory
    Transcend 16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Zotac 4070Ti Trinity
    Sound Card
    Internal: Realtek® ALC892 codec
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Asus VZ239-H
    Screen Resolution
    1080p
    Hard Drives
    Kingston 500GB nVME
    Case
    Fractal Focus 2 RGB White
    Cooling
    Xilence LQ240PRO Watercooling
    Browser
    Edge Chromium
I'm on Version 22H2 Build 22621.963 and haven't seen it. But I do recall that sometimes disk cleanup will remove some files that were created during install of programs that did require reinstall so as to recreate those files. I usually don't uninstall drivers, just let any new ones overwrite the old.
Pages about the code found by Search:
 

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System One System Two

  • OS
    Win11 Pro RTM
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Vostro 3400
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 11th Gen. 2.40GHz
    Memory
    12GB
    Hard Drives
    256GB SSD NVMe
  • Operating System
    Windows 11 Pro RTM x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Vostro 5890
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 10th Gen. 2.90GHz
    Memory
    16GB
    Graphics card(s)
    Onboard, no VGA, using a DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter
    Monitor(s) Displays
    24" Dell
    Hard Drives
    512GB SSD NVMe, 2TB WDC HDD
    Browser
    Firefox, Edge
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender/Microsoft Security
I'm on Version 22H2 Build 22621.963 and haven't seen it. But I do recall that sometimes disk cleanup will remove some files that were created during install of programs that did require reinstall so as to recreate those files. I usually don't uninstall drivers, just let any new ones overwrite the old.
Pages about the code found by Search:
Not sure, but it seems that this issue occurs with apps that don't have a uninstall exe file by themselves in their app folders. This is the case with drivers and visual redistributables
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows Pro 11 22H2 Build 22621.1992
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Custom built
    CPU
    i5-12600K
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z690 UD DDR4
    Memory
    Transcend 16GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Zotac 4070Ti Trinity
    Sound Card
    Internal: Realtek® ALC892 codec
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Asus VZ239-H
    Screen Resolution
    1080p
    Hard Drives
    Kingston 500GB nVME
    Case
    Fractal Focus 2 RGB White
    Cooling
    Xilence LQ240PRO Watercooling
    Browser
    Edge Chromium

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