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A common issue that people face while using Windows 10 is ‘this app cannot open’. This issue may have a couple of solutions but there is an easy fix that will work for all of us. Most people faces this error when they first shift to windows 10.
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Solutions for this error are in plenty but a huge number of them are a hit or miss. You cannot easily evade stumbling upon an error in windows 10 and ‘this app cannot open’ is just another error that can be corrected by following two simple steps in your system. I have tested this on my own and on a friend’s laptop with similar issues and it worked.
Steps to Fix this app cannot open Error in Windows 10
STEP I
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Press ‘Windows key + R’ on your keyboard and then run ‘secpol.msc’.
STEP II
Once the local security policy opens, navigate to the ‘local policies’ directory and select ‘security options’. When you get here you have to scroll to the bottom where you will locate the following policy ‘User Account Control: Admin Approval Mode for the Built-in Administrator account’. You will find that this option is disabled, by default, hence by double clicking on this policy, you have to change the option to ‘enabled’.
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STEP III
Press the Windows key + S and then search for ‘UAC’ to display ‘User Account Control settings’.
STEP IV
Lower the knob to the very bottom to the ‘Never Notify’ option. Immediately you have accomplished that, press OK and reboot the system.
After the system has restarted, go back on the OS to confirm if it worked by running a native metro app such as Mail, Edge or Alarm. You will ultimately identify that the error is not as unwieldy as most people make it out to be.
That’s it.
Muhammad Qasim is a long time contributor at Geekspie.com. Muhammad has years of experience writing about tech, including tutorials to resolve common problems users experience with Windows and Mac computers, iOS and and android devices, and software of all kinds. He can be reached through the contact us form.