Apps and Games Not Opening in Windows 11 (Solved)

Hello everyone, how are you doing? 

This is win11guru here with another quick tutorial. In today's tutorial, I'm going to show you guys

how to resolve if apps and games are not working or opening properly on your windows 11 computer so this could definitely be a frustrating issue and in today's tutorial i'm going to show you guys how to hopefully resolve that without too much of a hassle and we're going to go ahead and jump straight into it so first thing you're going to do is open up the start menu type in regedit so r-e-g-e-d-i-t best result trigger macro registry editor go ahead and right-click on that and select run as administrator if you receive the user account control prompt go ahead and select yes now before you proceed in the registry i would highly suggest you create a backup of it so if anything were to go wrong you could easily restore it back in order to create the backup all you have to do is select file and then export file name i recommend naming it the date in which you are making the backup set export range to all and save it to convenient and easily accessible location on your computer and if you ever need to import it back in all you would do is select file and then import and navigate to the file location so again pretty straightforward process and now we're ready to begin so you're going to start off by double clicking on the hkey classes root folder so double click on that and now you want to locate the dot exe section so you may have to scroll down you can also just click on one of the folders and just start typing it so you can see it says exe you want to make sure there's a default value in here and if you click on it should be a string value so double click on it make sure value data is set to exe file exactly how you see it on my screen here guys so again very important it says e-x-e-f-i-l-e no space is in between so again make sure it's exactly how you see it on my screen here so click on ok to close out of there and now you also want to go down to exe file it's actually a folder it doesn't have a dot in front of it to just start typing exe file and it should come back a little folder with exactly that over here now on the right side locate the default value in here double click on it set value data to application to just type in application exactly how you see it on my screen here guys very important and then once you're done with that click on ok so now you want to expand the exe file on the left side so it's this exe file it's really a folder it's just called exe file so go ahead and double click on that it should be a shell value in here for shell folder double click on it and that should be an open folder left click on that one time on the right side you want to locate where it says default go ahead and double click on that make sure there is nothing in here okay make sure it's empty and then select okay to save that change and then once you know what that close out of here and restart your computer and there you go guys that should hopefully be about it and as always thank you guys for watching this brief tutorial do a buzz able to help you out and i do look forward to catching you all in the next tutorial

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