Re: Why is Microsoft Smart App so damned retarded?

....w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> wrote:

Paul wrote on 3/26/2025 6:44 PM:

There are a significant number of failed "App" updates coming from the
Microsoft Store in the reliability panel. But I'm not going to work on
those, unless I can find an updated "err-6.4.5.exe" program, which prints
out reasons for an error, based on the error hex number. Googling
your ass off, using the error codes in the reliability panel, that's
not going to find all the error codes. While the date here is 2024, I think
this particular one came from a further back point in time.
 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100432
 
    Paul
 

On this Win11 24H2 device only two 'failed app updates are periodically
present(and only since 24H2 was upgraded from 23H2) in Reliability monitor
  One for Windows CrossDevice and HP Printer
The former afaics due to BT/Mobile/Allow this PC to access mobile devices
is disabled(the default)
  - i.e. the push from the store fails because the service is not present
The other(latter) for the HP printer because the MSFT Store HP Smart App
is installed but the exe is not running, not scheduled for updating, and
newer app version not available(same version for months)

  On my Windows 11 24H2 system, today there were no less than 13 'Failed
Windows Update' errors for all kinds of Apps.

  OTOH, from 16/03 through 22/03, there was a week without such failures
(and with many 'Successful Windows Update' messages for Apps).

  I use very few Apps, but the few which I do use (Calculator, Notepad,
Photos, Settings :-), Snipping Tool, WhatsApp [1]), seem to work fine.

[1] Yes, some of these also have <name>.exe files, but AFAIK, these are
just preambles which in turn run the (UWP/Modern/<whatever>) app, not a
normal x86/x64 .exe file.