All Microsoft Programs uninstalled

Question

All of my Microsoft programs randomly uninstalled themselves. I just tried to open them, and it said that the shortcuts were unavailable for each program and they are all gone now. I did nothing to uninstall them, but they are gone. Has anyone else had this issue?

Answer 1

Hi I’m Linnell I'm a fellow Community member here to help. That’s a strange one Icons may move but a program uninstalling itself is very strange behaviour
First of all can you answer a few questions.
What Office program do you or did you have?
What operating system do you have
(Windows?)
Do you run any Third party cleaner?
Let me know and we’ll figure out what’s going on.
Regards,
Linnell

Answer 2

Look in Control panel, programs and features. Is Office listed? If so, select it and choose Change then do a Quick repair to restore your office shortcuts.

Answer 3

Can you try restarting your computer a few times to see if the programs reappear and start working?

Answer 4

If still not working:

Run this commands

powershell

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like "*SystemApps*"} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Answer 5

Hello DSHAW1982,

Open an Administrator CMD window.

Click CTRL+Shift+ESC to open Task Manager.

Click File and Run New Task

Make sure you have a check mark beside “Create this task with administrative privileges”

Type CMD

Type the following commands at the CMD prompt:

dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

sfc /scannnow

Hope it helps, have a good day