[SOLVED] Updates, Notepad, and DISM not working.

[CrashingComputer]

I noticed that paint and notepad were not working. Notepad didn't launch at all, and paint said something like "unable to create file." I tried uninstalling and installing in the optional features, but it failed to reinstall. In addition, in windows is not updating, and, it always says "Download error "0x80070002". I did the sfc scan and it said it fixed corrupted files, but nothing changed. DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth failed at around 70% and says source files were not found" It does the same thing when I set a wim file as the source. I downloaded the windows 10 iso installed it (to the same version 21H1), and it too gave an error and failed. It said "0x8007001f – 0x20006, The installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during REPLICATE_OC operation. The windows recovery environment (I'm not sure if this is what it is called) does not boot, and just shows a blue screen with an error message without even displaying the windows spash screen. Also, my restore points got deleted when I tried a tutorial on fixing DISM. The Tweaking windows repair app and chkdsk also failed to solve my problem.



How would I fix all this? I do not want to reinstall windows as I will have to reconfigure and install all of my apps and settings.

 

[britechguy]

Doing a Windows 10 Repair Install or Feature Update Using the Windows 10 ISO file

 

[CrashingComputer]

I may have not been too clear in my original post. I have already tried this, and it says that it can not install, and gives the error 0x8007001f – 0x20006 and says the installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during REPLICATE_OC operation. This happens after it reboots by itself.

 

[britechguy]

Then I woud suggest, since you've done all the reasonable preliminary steps, that you open a topic on the Windows Update forum since it appears that "under the hood interventions" will be necessary.

Please read, Windows Update Forum Posting Instructions, before posting to that forum, and supply the requested information.

 

[FreeBooter]

You can repair install all apps by executing below PowerShell command, make sure to open PowerShell with administrative privileges.

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers| Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}

If repair installing all apps won't help reset Notepad and Paint by executing below PowerShell commands one at a time.

Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.WindowsNotepad* | Reset-AppxPackage 

Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.MSPaint* | Reset-AppxPackage

 

[CrashingComputer]

Will the first block of code reset the apps and delete their data?

Also when I run the second block, it gives this error:
Reset-AppxPackage : The term 'Reset-AppxPackage' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.

 

[britechguy]

My guess is that you would need the -Package parameter after the Reset-AppxPackage command, but that's the least of your problems.

Worrying about Notepad and/or Paint given the overall issues you've got is not worth wasting your time. These will be corrected once Windows is able to update.

I direct you, again, to the Windows Update forum. Follow their posting instructions and offer a link to this topic for background as well.

 

[FreeBooter]

First command only reinstall apps it should not delete the data.

Looks like version 21H2 does not support 'Reset-AppxPackage' command.

 

[CrashingComputer]

I fixed the problem. More details here: [SOLVED] - Updates, Notepad, and DISM not working.