Gonna run System Restore in Windows 11? Microsoft says some of its apps won't
- Reference: 1674088210
- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2023/01/19/microsoft_windows_apps_restore/
- Source link:
The bug affects Windows applications that use the MSIX app package format running on Windows 11 version 22H2, according to a Redmond [1]advisory . The MSIX packaging format was introduced in 2018 in Windows 10 as a way to make it easier to update systems like MSI and ClickOnce, but not in this case.
Users are seeing problems trying to run Office apps post-restoration, as well as Notepad, Paint, Cortana, and Terminal, a terminal emulator for those who use command-line tools and such shells as Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
Windows applications that use the MSIX Windows app package format may experience this issue
"This list of apps is not a complete list," Microsoft said. "Any Windows applications that use the MSIX Windows app package format may experience this issue."
Problems after a system restore include the "this app can't open" message, seeing multiple entries of an app in the Start menu or getting no response at all when trying to start an app.
[2]
In addition, there might be an I/O error, after which the app doesn't respond and then crashes. The software maker also noted that other problems might occur.
[3]
[4]
The affected operating systems are all Windows 11 versions 22H2: Windows 11 SE, Windows 11 Home and Pro, Windows 11 Enterprise Multi-Session, Windows 11 Enterprise and Education, and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise.
[5]Microsoft locks door to default guest authentication in Windows Pro
[6]Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess
[7]Microsoft Defender ASR rules strip icons, app shortcuts from Taskbar, Start Menu
[8]Unix is dead. Long live Unix!
Microsoft is proposing a number of possible workarounds, including trying to restart the app and reinstalling software from the Windows Store.
The IT giant – which just [9]laid off thousands of workers – did not say whether it was working on a formal fix for the problem.
The issue with the Windows apps comes less than a week after updates to Microsoft's Defender for Endpoint security tool dumped icons and application shortcuts from the desktop, Taskbar, and Start Menu from Windows 10 and 11 systems.
[10]
The removal of the icons and shortcuts was caused by false positive detections in the Attack Surface Resolution (ASR) rules that followed the updates. It impacted users who had the "Block Win32 API calls macro" rule turned on. ASR rules are designed to harden commonly abused attack surfaces.
Microsoft a day later responded by [11]releasing Advanced Hunting Queries and a PowerShell script to enable users to recreate and recover shortcuts for some of the affected applications. ®
Get our [12]Tech Resources
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5023152-this-app-can-t-open-error-message-when-starting-a-windows-app-in-windows-11-version-22h2-52d63063-a912-4b2b-b0b8-a934d18625bf
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Y8jOd70sVgj0XociU4zuKAAAANQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y8jOd70sVgj0XociU4zuKAAAANQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[4] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=3&c=33Y8jOd70sVgj0XociU4zuKAAAANQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/microsoft_windows_pro_guest/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/16/microsoft_and_community_release_scripts/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/13/happy_friday_13th_microsoft_defender/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/18/microsoft_job_cuts/
[10] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44Y8jOd70sVgj0XociU4zuKAAAANQ&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[11] https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/16/microsoft_and_community_release_scripts/
[12] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
M$ borked system restore a number of years ago
At some point in the past, it was very reliable and dare I say, dependable.
Not anymore
The last and FINAL time I used system restore, I created a restore point before doing some action that I percieved as being risky, after that action failed, I went to restore from the earlier restore point I created
The message "no restore points found" is enough to make your blood boil
Why do businesses insist on using this joke companies products in recent years is, beyond my understanding
no restore points found
"At some point in the past, it was very reliable and dare I say, dependable."
Maybe it was, I never trusted them enough to try it out. Way back in the days of DOS I was burned by MSBACKUP that could not restore _any_ of my files. Mea culpa, a more rigorous disaster simulation on my part would have turned up this wee flaw well before time. To this day I'm still not sure what the point of that program was, maybe it was to get people to call them and desperately pay for support. Since then I have always rolled my own backups -- copy, xcopy, robocopy on Windows, lately rsync on Linux. I will admit to both using and recommending Apple's Time Machine, that's some well done software. To me, system restore means fresh image, reinstall apps, restore data from backup. Yes, it's tedious, but at least it's guaranteed to work.
I never found System Restore to be all that reliable in my Windows days. I used their EFS, encrypting file system, and it gave system restore all kinds of fits.
If you want to see an example of a reliable system restore utility, try Timeshift in Linux. It is a frontend for rsync or btrfs, modeled after Apple Time Machine, and it just works fantastically well... the way I had wished System Restore worked back in the dark ages of MS.
Gee Wiz, this OS totally seems ready for primetime
Gonna be a long painful march for 11 for the foreseeable future. Still getting regular doses of pain for for upgrading a still partially baked operating system.
Still waiting for even one "must have" feature.