It was Einstein who mentioned, “madness is doing the identical factor again and again and anticipating completely different outcomes”. Indicative of madness or not, repeating the identical actions again and again is what Microsoft suggests as an answer to a Home windows 10 situation.
Just a few days in the past, the corporate acknowledged an issue which means customers is perhaps unable to replace or uninstall packaged apps on Home windows 10. The problem stems from the WinAppSDK 1.6.2 bundle and ends in a 0x80073CFA error. There may be a couple of repair, considered one of which is odd.
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When Microsoft acknowledged the issue, it posted on the Windows release health page: “Beginning November 12, 2024, Home windows 10 customers would possibly expertise points whereas attempting to replace or uninstall packaged apps. Affected Home windows 10 gadgets have obtained the WinAppSDK 1.6.2 bundle (revealed on November 12, 2024)”.
The corporate goes on to clarify:
When customers obtain an app that depends on WinAppSDK, the mandatory parts of the SDK are mechanically downloaded and put in together with the app.
Ensuing from this situation, you would possibly observe that Microsoft Retailer shows the error message, ‘One thing occurred on our finish’ within the ‘Downloads’ panel.
If you’re an IT administrator attempting to handle packaged apps by way of PowerShell utilizing ‘Get-AppxPackage’ command you would possibly observe the error ‘Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CFA’, ‘Please contact your software program vendor. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80073CFA’) in PowerShell.
Additionally, you will discover that apps like Microsoft Groups and different third social gathering apps are impacted when you select to uninstall and re-install the apps as a part of the replace course of.
The only answer — and one that ought to work for most individuals — is to put in the Home windows updates launched November 21, 2024 (KB5046714) and later.
The opposite answer suggested by Microsoft on GitHub is to put in the brand new WinAppSDK 1.6.3 thrice (yep, thrice). There are x64 and arm64 variations out there.
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