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How does Web Experience Pack keep getting updates, or why does it stop doing so

Anonymous
2023-05-18T22:08:02+00:00

I noticed some time back that my weather widget was not displaying properly. So Sibro provided me with a simple Command Prompt method to uninstall the old Web Experience Pack and install the new one. It worked fine. This was just weeks ago, maybe a month or so ago.

Then just the other day, after booting up, the weather widget was missing. The widget came back with a reboot. But this odd behavior bothered me. I checked into the Microsoft Store app updates and discovered that Web Experience Pack had not updated in many days. It usually updates with every single reboot. Manually asking for all Microsoft Store apps to update changed nothing on that one app. It wouldn't update.

So okay, luckily I had saved Sibro's procedure, ran it again last night, all back to proper operation. It got me wondering, is there something I have setup wrong, causing this to happen? Not a huge big deal, since I can fix it, but it would be nice to know. (I'm on Windows 11 22621.1776 now, but the first time I had to reinstall Web Experience Pack was of course on a previous build. If I were to guess, the problem was caused when I did the cumulative update to Windows 11 22621.1776.)

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-20T03:05:27+00:00

    Strange behaviors. So, to answer your question, I used this procedure, provided by Sibro:

    Open a cmd prompt with admin rights, copy and paste this command

    winget uninstall MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy

    Restart

    Open a cmd prompt with admin rights, copy and paste this command

    winget install 9MSSGKG348SP

    Restart

    I used the same commands when it got the "Modified moments ago" message, and unfortunately the message persisted.

    To solve the problem on the one R.P. machine that was affected, I update my current public Build 22621.1702 to R.P. 22621.1776 and that fixed the problem on the machine that had the issue.

    Weird that other 2 R.P. machine did not have this problem at all. 🤷‍♂️

    Aha once again. So that's indeed what I had noticed, after installing 22621.1776. It stopped telling me that Web Experience Pack was "modified moments ago." I thought that was a problem, especially because the widget didn't show up on a particular reboot (but did show up subsequently).

    So to fix what I thought was a problem, I went through that uninstall and reinstall procedure, and now it keeps telling me that it was "modified moments ago."

    So basically, it looks like installing 22621.1776 had actually corrected the "problem," and I instead thought it created a problem. Good to know, anyway. At least now, I don't have to obsess if I notice that Web Experience Pack is not always at the top of the updated apps list.

    Thanks, fg2001. I could never have understood what was going on, without your huge assortment of PCs, running all manner of Windows variants.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-20T02:07:45+00:00

    I just saw a similar issue with weather app in Canary Build. It keeps showing "Modified moments ago" even if it was modified a few days back.

    They definitely have a bug on updating the status message.

    What commands did you use to reset and reinstall "Windows Web Experience Pack"?

    The problem may be related to the way the app was updated, rather than going through the normal update process. 😎

    Strange behaviors. So, to answer your question, I used this procedure, provided by Sibro:

    Open a cmd prompt with admin rights, copy and paste this command

    winget uninstall MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience_cw5n1h2txyewy

    Restart

    Open a cmd prompt with admin rights, copy and paste this command

    winget install 9MSSGKG348SP

    Restart

    I used the same commands when it got the "Modified moments ago" message, and unfortunately the message persisted.

    To solve the problem on the one R.P. machine that was affected, I update my current public Build 22621.1702 to R.P. 22621.1776 and that fixed the problem on the machine that had the issue.

    Weird that other 2 R.P. machine did not have this problem at all. 🤷‍♂️

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-19T21:51:46+00:00

    @Bert22306,

    Here is my FBH report for Canary, you can add comments or make a separate one for R.P.

    https://aka.ms/AAkvt7d

    Edit:

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-19T19:59:05+00:00

    I also noticed that the "Modified moments ago" comment for the Windows Web Experience Pack is not updating at all after several minutes or even after a reboot it still shows the same message even if it was modified hours before. 🤣🤣🤣🤐

    That looks like a second bug in R.P.

    After a few minutes the message should change to "Modified minutes ago" and eventually "Modified today", if it keeps showing "Modified moments ago" even after a reboot, there is a bug that is not updating the message when it should. 🤷‍♂️

    Wow, thanks for the deep dive, fg2001. I only quoted the above to say that I finally suspected this was happening, last night. Weird stuff. Anyway, the widget does work fine for me too. How strange that this behavior varies even in PCs using the same Windows 11 build.

    I just saw a similar issue with weather app in Canary Build. It keeps showing "Modified moments ago" even if it was modified a few days back.

    They definitely have a bug on updating the status message.

    What commands did you use to reset and reinstall "Windows Web Experience Pack"?

    The problem may be related to the way the app was updated, rather than going through the normal update process. 😎

    This status message is not changing, this is on Canary Build.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-19T19:46:55+00:00

    I also noticed that the "Modified moments ago" comment for the Windows Web Experience Pack is not updating at all after several minutes or even after a reboot it still shows the same message even if it was modified hours before. 🤣🤣🤣🤐

    That looks like a second bug in R.P.

    After a few minutes the message should change to "Modified minutes ago" and eventually "Modofied today", if it keeps showing "Modified moments ago" even after a reboot there is a bug that is not updating the message when it should. 🤷‍♂️

    Wow, thanks for the deep dive, fg2001. I only quoted the above to say that I finally suspected this was happening, last night. Weird stuff. Anyway, the widget does work fine for me too. How strange that this behavior varies even in PCs using the same Windows 11 build.

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