Windows 10 installation issues

Burtletoy

I recently purchased a new computer and I'm having a weird issue I've never encountered before. It isn't a big deal, just a minor annoyance, but I'm hoping someone has an idea for fixing it?

So every time I download a program and run the .exe file, Windows 10 gives me a popup saying

'Search for app in the Store?
You need to install an app for this task.
Would you like to search for one in the store?'

And then I click No and the program will launch it's installer, as it should.

They all install fine. Why does windows think I need to find an app in the store to install a different app that I have already downloaded?

Shadowfire

Couple quick thoughts:

Open an admin Powershell or CMD window and type: assoc .exe=exefile
Hit enter and reboot when it's done.

Option 2- make a new user account and see if that does the same thing.

Burtletoy

Tried the first option, no effect.

But I learned if o click yes to search the store for an app...

...it also just installs correctly and doesn't even try to open the app store or anything

I'm guessing it's some app store/parental control setting I tried to disable and now windows is confused, or something

Darkewolfe

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

Shadowfire

Pretty sure that command hasn't worked since 1503 and can actually break apps now. That may have changed though.