Microsoft has shared a brand new methodology to repair a bug stopping app uninstalls or updates on Home windows 10 for these unwilling to deploy this month’s preview replace.
As the corporate first acknowledged on Thursday, some customers have been unable to replace or uninstall packaged functions like Microsoft Groups and different third-party apps after receiving the WinAppSDK 1.6.2 bundle on their Home windows 10 22H2.
These affected see the “One thing occurred on our finish” error message within the Microsoft Retailer’s ‘Downloads’ panel, whereas IT directors see 0x80073CFA errors when attempting to handle packaged apps utilizing Get-AppxPackage via PowerShell.
To forestall extra prospects from being impacted, Redmond has pulled the WinAppSDK 1.6.2 bundle to stop extra Home windows 10 from being impacted.
On Friday, Microsoft launched the KB5046714 preview update, which fixes this recognized situation, but it surely additionally shared an alternate workaround for these unwilling to put in elective cumulative updates on their methods.
”Our evaluation into Home windows and shopper logging has decided that this drawback could also be stopping customers from updating or uninstalling packaged apps on Home windows 10 gadgets,” Microsoft product supervisor Roy MacLachlan said.
“We have remoted a latest servicing replace for the WinAppSDK (ver. 1.6.2) which launched a difficulty with the deployment stack processing that resulted on this affect.”
Microsoft advises impacted customers to put in the brand new WinAppSDK 1.6.3 replace thrice as an alternative of the preview replace to repair the app replace and set up issues.
To verify in case your Home windows 10 system is affected, you must run the next PowerShell command (which can solely return a worth if it finds the buggy WinAppSDK 1.6.2 bundle was put in):
Get-Appxpackage *WindowsAppRuntime.1.6* -AllUsers | The place { $_.Model -eq '6000.311.13.0' }
Earlier this month, Redmond additionally pulled the November Trade safety updates after widespread reports from admins that e mail had stopped flowing on their servers and fixed several bugs inflicting Home windows Server 2025 blue screens and set up points.
Over the weekend, it blocked the Home windows 11 24H2 replace on computer systems with some Ubisoft games and eSCL standalone scanners.
