ms- file associations missing, settings not working


mary g

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Hi, I'm new . . . and looking for coding or advice about how to repair the ms-xxxx associations that, practically, might get Settings functional again.

Guessing it might have something to do with Microsoft OS and AMD's Radeon graphics not getting along well together - because when either of them updates it causes some type of time consuming problem. With my version of windows there should no longer be any updates . . . but there seem to be, or my settings would not be changing when it is not accessible to me, and that has been problematic. Have done malware, virus, etc, checks and there seem to be no problems. Mine is not a microsoft account profile.

While exploring around it looked like apps may have been archived, however I did not archive and and no one else uses this computer. That happened in the past too. If some service is responsible I need to disable it. But hard to know which it might be.

Trying to avoid this:
Get-AppxPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

then having to do a lot of uninstalling, and reconfiguring. Have found Developer Mode activated after I found it that way the first time and deactivated it. The coding above makes me wonder if it is a common problem.

Mary G.


Window 22 22H2 (OS Build 2621.525)
AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics
2100 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
16G Memory AMI Bios
 

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2100 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
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? maybe identified Bios
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Purchased new from AskHand in 2023 with first version of Windows 11 installed. Had finally come to terms with Windows 10, dual booted on Windows 7 but used 7 most of the time. (Tried 10 when it was new and aghast at the fact that it was a giant mobile interface, so left it alone until many upgrades and improvements later, maybe a year before Windows 11 was available). Almost updated to version 23, but chose not to when it was near end-of-life and the promise of no more updates - some have arrived anyway (and did not want the constant snapshots or A.I. in the next versions).
See this tutorial...

 

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Hello and welcome to ElevenForum.
First off, here's ten points, just for filling out your computer specs. :-)

Secondly, there a tutorial for just about everything, as you can see from posts 2 and 3.





And lastly...

Here's some other things that you may find useful...



 

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that, practically, might get Settings functional again.

Maybe you could elaborate... in what way or way is Settings not functional?

Does it not launch or close abruptly or what?

Before considering an in-place upgrade repair install, should you reach that point, first do this basic diagnostic check:
Create a new user account for test purposes only (you can delete it afterwards).

See if Settings works in that.

If it does, then the problem is specific to your user account, and a general Windows repair such as an in-place upgrade repair install is unlikely to help.

==================
While exploring around it looked like apps may have been archived
- which means???

And as a note:
Trying to avoid this:
Get-AppxPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
This PowerShell command re-registers all built-in and installed Windows apps (AppX packages) for the current user.

There are other options.. see Tutorial- e.g. for specific apps including Settings.

==================

To protect yourself and give yourself a way back when things go wrong, once again...

- use 3rd party disk imaging to external disk regularly and routinely, appropriate to your situation and rate of change.

- have a system restore point created on schedule (I have one daily). Tutorial on tenforums.com (not seen that here yet).

- (and of course now just for completeness we have Point in Time Restore)
 

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