Notepad, Snipping Tool, other apps broken by new bug in Windows 11

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Customers are being greeted with error code 0x803F8001, noting that the app is not available for their account and they should make sure that they are signed in. This leaves users unable to utilize their desired apps, which can have impacts on productivity too, considering that Notepad is also among the list of impacted apps.


On the Microsoft support thread, an independent advisor has indicated that this error code is typically thrown when the Microsoft Store cannot validate app licenses, sometimes due to a corrupted cache. While this would indicate that if you reset the store cache, or uninstall and reinstall the app, you should be able to get rid of the error, this is not the case in Windows Central's testing. For the media outlet, installing the latest Patch Tuesday update (KB5074109) fixed the issue, but this has not been confirmed to be a reliable fix either.
 
Probably a deliberate tactic to make you so gatvol of Windows 11, that when they release Windows 12, everyone will jump on board.

Said only half jokingly.
 
Use Notepad++. But thankfully, nothing is broken on Windows 10 (yet)
 
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