The Component Store or the WinSxS folder, located under the Windows folder, is used to support the functions needed to customize and update Windows.
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User Profile Folder Missing Under C:\Users
The profile folder for each user account on your computer is stored under C:\Users
. On some systems, the user profile folder may not appear when you open the “C:\Users” folder in File Explorer.Read more
How to Completely Uninstall a Driver in Windows 11/10
Windows comes with many built-in drivers for various hardware. When you connect a device to your computer, Windows will automatically install drivers from the driver store. If a suitable driver is unavailable in the store, you can use the vendor-supplied device driver or let Windows download the device driver automatically from the Microsoft Update servers.Read more
Why Can’t I Rename Files to Upper or Lowercase on USB Drives
Here’s a user query where they’re unable to change the file name extension to lowercase from uppercase (or the other way) on external drives. For instance, the command-line to bulk change the extension (
ren *.WAV *.wav
) may work on the system drive but not on an external drive.Read more
“Turn on fast startup” option missing in Windows 11/10
Fast Startup is a feature in Windows 8/10/11 that speeds up the boot process significantly. With the Fast Startup feature enabled, when the user shuts down the computer, what happens under the hood is a hybrid shutdown sequence.
However, on some computers, the Fast Startup and Hibernate features will be missing. When you open Power Options in the classic Control Panel, the “Turn on fast startup (recommended)” option may be missing.Read more
How to Add “Open command window here” in Windows 11
In Windows 11, the context menu “Open Command window here” doesn’t exist by default. Instead, you’ll see the “Open in Windows Terminal” and “Open PowerShell window here” (when you press Shift + right-click) options in the folder context menu.
This article tells you how to add “Open Command window here” (in Windows 11) to open a Command Prompt window in that directory path.Read more
How to Reset WindowsApps folder Permissions to Default
Summary: This article tells you how to reset the WindowsApps folder permissions (and ownership) to Windows default.
The WindowsApps folder under the Program Files folder stores the modern app packages. Each package folder under WindowsApps contains a manifest (named AppxManifest.xml) that contains a special XML namespace for packaged apps. When you reinstall built-in apps using PowerShell add-appxpackage
command-line, it uses the corresponding app’s package folder under WindowsApps.
The WindowsApps folder is not browsable in File Explorer by default. This is due to tight permissions assigned to the folder.
To access this folder, many users tend to take ownership of the folder and sub-folders. Some users also change the permissions for this folder and sub-folders arbitrarily, and later observe that some of the installed Store apps fail to work.
Even worse is that some users would reset the permissions for WindowsApps, its subfolders, and files (recursively) using the Icacls.exe reset command-line. This is not recommended, as the WindowsApps folder doesn’t inherit any permission entries from the parent (
Program Files
) folder by default. Instead, this folder has very restricted permissions, including one or more conditional ACEs.