Microsoft has shared a brand new technique 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 “Something happened on our end” error message within the Microsoft Retailer’s ‘Downloads’ panel, whereas IT directors see 0x80073CFA errors when making an attempt to handle packaged apps utilizing Get-AppxPackage by PowerShell.
To forestall extra prospects from being impacted, Redmond has pulled the WinAppSDK 1.6.2 bundle to forestall extra Home windows 10 from being impacted.
On Friday, Microsoft launched the KB5046714 preview replace, which fixes this recognized problem, but it surely additionally shared an alternate workaround for these unwilling to put in non-obligatory cumulative updates on their methods.
​”Our analysis into Windows and client logging has determined that this problem may be preventing users from updating or uninstalling packaged apps on Windows 10 devices,” Microsoft product supervisor Roy MacLachlan mentioned.
“We’ve isolated a recent servicing update for the WinAppSDK (ver. 1.6.2) which introduced an issue with the deployment stack processing that resulted in this impact.”
Microsoft advises impacted customers to put in the brand new WinAppSDK 1.6.3 replace 3 times 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 need to run the next PowerShell command (which is able to 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 Change safety updates after widespread studies from admins that e mail had stopped flowing on their servers and mounted a number of 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 video games and eSCL standalone scanners.
