Not knowing that this is a bad mistake — or maybe a massive bug in Windows 8 — I shared my complete user folder using Home Group on Windows 8 Pro x64. This changed the permissions for C:\Users\<username>\AppData
and as a consequence of that, all Windows 8 apps failed. If I try to start one of them now, the full-screen app icon shows up for a couple of seconds followed by a force-close of the app.
I did some research and found that my sharing of the user folder apparently caused this problem. I also found that adding specific permissions for ALL_APPLICATION_PACKAGES
for the folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER
and a .dat
file in a "Temporary Internet Files" folder should fix it, but it didn't, just like issuing sfc /scannow
.
As I'm really not too keen on reinstalling my machine, do you have any advice on how to fix the permissions problem to make the apps work again?
Home Group
in question?