Windows 8: This app can't open - Resolution with screenshots resolution 1

Situation: The client is running Windows 8.1. Now it shows "This app can't open" whenever starting some apps including Store and WSRest.exe. The Event Viewer has ID 5973.

Resolution: 

1. Run "Windows Store Apps" Troubleshooter

2. Clean boot.

3. Try different user account.

4. Disable and Enable User Account Control (UAC)

5. Installed latest update.

6. System restore.

7. I also make sure ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES has permissions to these folders
◦Read & execute, List folder contents and Read in the following locations ◾C:\Windows
◾C:\Program Files (x86)
◾C:\Program Files

◦List folder and read data, Create Folders and Append Data
◦C:\Users\<userName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER

8. Re-register Windows Store Apps

1) Press Windows Key + Q, type powershell and select Windows PowerShell from the results, right click over it and choose Run as administrator.
2) In the administrative Windows PowerShell window, type following command and hit Enter key then:
Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Once the command is successfully executed, you can close Windows PowerShell and reboot the machine. After restarting the system, problems with apps on your Windows should be fixed.

or

We have received the message regarding to your issue. We have ever encountered many similar issue with yours. Therefore, we would like to suggest you could run the command below to re-register the app.

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

Other suggestions:

Windows 8.1 Tip: Modern App Errors (This App Can’t Open)

http://www.thetechchat.com/2014/08/20/windows-8-1-tip-modern-app-errors-this-app-cant-open/

Windows 8.1 Apps Won’t Open

https://www.michaelmaw.com/2014/11/26/windows-8-1-apps-wont-open/

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