What is removing the dependency for Windows Photo App?

Question

I have deployed the widows photos app to a few hundred computers in our organization and all were working fine for a few months.

I noticed that some of them stopped working and determined the cause to be that one of the dependencies had been deleted.

Microsoft.UI.Xaml.2.0_2.1810.18004.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

The list of computers missing the dependency is slowly growing. How do I determine what is removing the dependency?

Answer 1

Hello there,

If you need to find the reason for this behaviour you can use the below tools.

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file
system, Registry and process/thread activity. You can get the tool from here

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon

System Monitor (Sysmon) is a Windows system service and device driver that, once
installed on a system, remains resident across system reboots to monitor and log
system activity to the Windows event log.You can get the tool from here

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon

If you wish to fix it you can try to run the DISM command to check the system health and restore the files.

In the Administrator: Command Prompt window, type the following commands. Press the Enter key aftereach command:

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

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