Voilà —used to call attention, to express satisfaction or approval, or to suggest an appearance as if by magic
Today marked an epiphany of sorts for me and this problem, I've been having with updates of preview builds when it comes to the Store Apps and their frustrating crash / closing.
As with most of my problems, I found that this one too, was to some extent self inflicted, so....
I assume full responsibility for the fact that it happens at all, but.....
As to the WHY it happens, that part, I believe is fully owned and operated by Microsoft and someone a whole lot smarter than me will have to explain the why part.
Fortunately with the recent 14951, 55 and 59 builds I've had an opportunity to look closer at the problem and it is apparently linked to the Windows.old folder.
I couldn't understand why a build upgrade, after appearing to be fine in a day or two or sometimes even three of testing, would suddenly develop issues with the Store App itself and with other associated Universal Apps.
Well..... it was me.
An upgrade generates a couple folders which consume a fair amount of space on my C:\ drive....
$WINDOWS.~BT where it stores the actual upgrade files used in the process, usually around 3 gigs or so
AND
Windows.old usually around 13 + gigs or so, where (I thought) it kept files that would or could be used to revert back to "a previous build" in the event of something not going exactly right.
AND.... I don't like that. I consider or at least previously considered it all wasted space, so I generally, after a couple three days delete those two folders and I'm not kind or delicate about it. I take ownership and grant my user account full control of the folder, all sub-folders and files and delete both of them, but.....
Apparently, for some unknown reason there are files in the Windows.old folder that a seemingly, perfectly fine running installation still needs to support some, most, IDK, of the Universal Apps.
Why??? IDK, you tell me. Restored Windows.old from by backup and all was good.... The Store App and all Universal Apps were happy again, opened and stayed open.
So how long am I going to be expected to keep this waste of space 14 gigabyte folder on my computer?
Not sure, but going to test further, more delicately with CleanMgr (native) from a command prompt and see what it gets rid of if anything and what is left behind and whether it produces the same results with respect to the Store and its' Apps.