Thread: Fix for broken metro apps/Control Panel in Windows 8

Thanks for that headsup Mitchell. Think I'll give it a go later on today and see if I can figure out how to fix it. After I create an image of my native install and or snap shot of my VM for a safety net. I'd be interested in knowing if affected just your user account or all existing or any new user account that your might have created after the issue.

Originally Posted by Trouble

Thanks for that headsup Mitchell. Think I'll give it a go later on today and see if I can figure out how to fix it. After I create an image of my native install and or snap shot of my VM for a safety net. I'd be interested in knowing if affected just your user account or all existing or any new user account that your might have created after the issue.

all new accounts are also affected I just reformatted because I had a few other issues as well but have an idea of how to fix it myself. Tell me when you've got your test environment ready and you can give my idea a try.

Shooting in the dark here. Like all , I am a new user. But.
The App store, as I understand it, is not to be active in the developer preview, so no prob there.

What is the Ccleaner problem, exactly. I did use it fairly swiftly as I wanted a clean image for reinstalls. I am still able to iotally access and alter anything in my user account? Could you indicate a function I could try?

Just started my image on the native install, (so it may be awhile) I don't want to confuse the issue further by involving a VM. When you "used CCleaner" the "Cleaner" part of the application, did you just leave all the default check boxes checked, and did you do the Analyze button first and see what it was about to remove? And did you also use the "Registry" applet and again did you check the scan results before fixing selected issues? I'd like to duplicate what you did as closely as possible to most likely get the same results. Maybe we can figure it out between the two of us or possible with others joining the thread with there own experience. And no worries the image file should handle a worse case scenario and give me a chance to test the disc image backup built in the the OS as an added bonus.
Thanks Mitch
Randy

These were the settings I had-

Mitchell:
OK..... I ran CCleaner with the default option both the Cleaner and the Registry Cleaner no apparent impact on Metro UI. Both issues that you have reported and others have reported elsewhere on the Web (Missing Control Panel Tile and Missing Desktop Tile) in the Metro UI are both still present and both exhibit full functionality, even the cool "User" applet which supports "Picture Password" and "Pin Login" seem to be unaffected.
The only thing that might possibly be different is I am currently using a 32bit install. I have a separate 64bit install, if you'd like me to test it there as well.
Regards
Randy

FWIW I am using 64Bit

Originally Posted by Trouble

Mitchell:
OK..... I ran CCleaner with the default option both the Cleaner and the Registry Cleaner no apparent impact on Metro UI. Both issues that you have reported and others have reported elsewhere on the Web (Missing Control Panel Tile and Missing Desktop Tile) in the Metro UI are both still present and both exhibit full functionality, even the cool "User" applet which supports "Picture Password" and "Pin Login" seem to be unaffected.
The only thing that might possibly be different is I am currently using a 32bit install. I have a separate 64bit install, if you'd like me to test it there as well.
Regards
Randy

I use all default options + custom files and folders, old prefetch data (so as not to have prefetch loaded with installers I'll never use again) and IIS logs.

I don't recall using the registry cleaner, but if the above options don't reproduce the errors, run it all options checked. I'm also running 64 bit.
@Dave - Settings related to user tile, lock screen, Windows Live ID/password and many more are only contained in the metro version of the CP. You can only access these things via the metro interface - it looks like this: