Trusted Installer

I allready did that one and it did'nt work.
everything im trying getting the same deal... you need trustedinstaller permission... even after i change owner more then once. it either says its an error or it goes back to trustedinstaller being the owner.....

And it is my computer, so i should be alowed to uninstall what i ever i want and not what MS allows me to

I would send Microsoft feedback via the app - Win key + F key.

When you format the drive do you use diskpart to clean it first?

I did'nt know about diskpart... but that did the trick...
Thank you

I have a USB connected Western Digital Elements external drive that I use for backup. It shows up as the D:\ drive. Now I don't use any backup software to access this drive. I mainly use robocopy and mirror folders from C:\ drive to it. Or a manual copy/paste from explorer.

This would indicate to me that at some point in time you did something to "tell" Windows about that external drive. Did you install software on it at some point?

How do you do a "backup"?

Check out this post and see if it helps.

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/cannot-delete-windowsapps-folder-on-non-system-drives/

The other thing that I can think of would be to run regedit and search the registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) for any reference to the drive letter of your SSD.

no i dont have any backup software, its copy/paste.

I tried your link, not working either.

takeown /f d:\windowsapps /r

Just get me this : Error: Acces denied

(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) no clue where to look for any refrence

so i should be alowed to uninstall what i ever i want and not what MS allows me to

The thing is: MS is not preventing your from uninstalling anything. It is preventing you from deleting 2 folders that are part of the Windows installer infrastructure. This is being done to try to stop you from doing damage to your OS.

I have tried to help other forum users who mistakenly think they need to change file permissions and try to reset the permissions on the entire C: drive. They end up corrupting the permissions on subfolders and then stuff doesn't work. The only real solution is to then reinstall the OS.

In your case, what you want to do is to try and figure out why Windows is creating those folders in the first place.

Based on my experience, I would think that you had to have done something to cause Windows to create those folders.

In settings, does Windows think that something is installed on that drive?

Open a command prompt and run this command. Does it show your external drive?

reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\PackageVolumes\ /s

Just get me this : Error: Acces denied

You need to open the command prompt with "Run as administrator".

Under Apps > installed apps there is nothing on the drive.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Appx\PackageVolumes\8

Flags    REG_DWORD    0x27a

MediaId    REG_SZ    {76253545-0000-0000-A8F5-0236C2DBA8C2}

MountPoint    REG_SZ    F:

Name    REG_SZ    \\?\Volume{0d3e37a0-421f-11ef-9c69-d843ae3f525c}

SisPath    REG_SZ    F:\WindowsApps  

Thats it... but there is also Program Files folder that cant be deleted...

Is that everything? I see the number 8 there at the end, are there 7 other volumes listed? And does your SSD show as the F:\ drive?

On my pc I only have 1 drive listed and it shows as the default.

In a Powershell prompt, run "Get-AppxVolume". What do you see?