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I've installed my own Universal Windows App for all users on a PC, using the
DISM tool
while being logged-in in
Audit Mode
.
After doing so, I reboot into OOBE (using
sysprep
command), create a new user and try to launch this app.
The result is that nothing happens - the app doesn't launch (also checked in Task Manager).
In Windows'
Event Viewer
, I found an entry about
AppxDeploymentFailureBlue
, which appears there every time I try to launch that app - but it doesn't supply any further information about the problem or its cause.
I tried to look for this error code online, but all I could find is some
discussions
about a corrupted version of the Windows Store app or Windows' built-in apps - which isn't the case here.
Further more, this app has a
StartupTask
, and its failure to properly launch seems to be blocking other apps from registering themselves in the Startup tasks/apps list (if the app isn't installed, then they are registered successfully).
The solution turned out to be simple in hindsight, but not easy to track down:
Turns out one of the app's dependencies wasn't installed. Seems like installing a Universal App with DISM in Audit Mode (as opposed to when installing as regular local user) doesn't give any indication about missing pre-requisites.
In order to figure out which dependency was missing, I went over the App's
AppxManifest.xml
's
<Dependencies>
section. In order to check which are installed and which aren't, I used the following command:
Dism /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages
.
After installing the missing package (in my case, that was
Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop
), everything went back to normal.
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