How to Reinstall Built-in Apps in Windows 10

How to Reinstall Built-in Apps in Finestre 10 – Guida passo passo. If you removed some or all built-in apps in Finestre 10 and now you want to restore them, this tutorial will help you.

STEP 1:

As usual, we’ll need to open PowerShell as Administrator to execute the required commands.

AprireMenù di avvio e digitarePowerShell. It’ll automatically start searching for the program and will show PowerShell in search results. Now press Ctrl+Shift+Enter keys together to launch PowerShell come amministratore. Alternatively, you can right-click on PowerShell and select the “Run as Administrator” option.

NOTA: You also can use PowerShell ISE

STEP 2:

Now you’ll need to execute commands in PowerShell as mentioned in the following steps:

Reinstall a Specific Built-in App in Finestre 10

If you want to reinstall any specific app, you can use the following command to restore that particular app:

Add-AppxPackage -register appxmanifest.xml_file_path -DisableDevelopmentMode

As you can see, the above-mentioned command requires an essential parameter which is the full path ofappxmanifest.xml file. Actually, all modern apps contain this XML file in their program files folder and this XML file is required to restore the app.

All modern apps are stored in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\WindowsApps

This folder contains several sub-folders (with the same name as the app’s PackageFullName info) which contain the required files of all modern apps. You’ll find one appxmanifest.XML file in all those folders.

1. So to restore an app, you’ll need to know thePackageFullName information of that app which can be found using the following command:

Get-AppxPackage -allusers | Select Name, PackageFullName

Now select thePackageFullName information of your desired app and press Enter key to copy it to the clipboard.

2. Now execute the following command to restore that app:

Add-AppxPackage -register "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PackageFullName\appxmanifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode

Replacethe PackageFullName term in the above command with the copiedPackageFullName information from step 1. Just pressCTRL+V keys together to paste copied PackageFullName information.

If you receive any errore messaggio, ignore it. You may need to restart the computer.

Reinstall All Built-in Apps in Finestre 10

If you want, you can reinstall all built-in modern apps in a single step using the following command:

Get-AppxPackage -allusers | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -register "$($_.InstallLocation)\appxmanifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode}

This command will take a few moments and will reinstall all built-in apps. If you receive any errore messaggio, ignore it. You may need to restart the computer to take effect.