Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Your Phone App Breaks

 I like the Your Phone app on Win10 but it will break now and then and needs reinstall. The symptom I've had is mouse clicks on messages or people will not register.

Open Admin PowerShell and paste this

Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.YourPhone* -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

Or use CCleaner's uninstall

Go to store and install again.

It will need to be set up again and removed from phone but this has worked twice for me.

Saturday, August 14, 2021

Reset Group Policy

Reset polices on the computer:
Open command prompt as administrator and run one at a time.

reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f
reg delete "HKCU\Software\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsStore\WindowsUpdate" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies" /f
reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsStore\WindowsUpdate" /f

Reset Group Policy Settings to Default with Command Prompt
Open Command Prompt window as administrator and run following commands:
RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy"
RD /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" 

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