Windows 8 - Microsoft Metro apps stopped working after upgrading from Parallels 7

Hi,

I upgraded from Parallels 7 to Parallels 8 and now my Windows 8 installation does not run most of the Microsoft base apps (Skydrive, Weather, Photos, People - probably others).

Third party apps work, and the Store and Mail apps also work fine.

The behavior that I'm experiencing is seeing the app's splash screen, which crashes and opens up the start screen again. The app stays active (splash screen) on the open apps side bar.

My login is a Microsoft account. I have tried removing an app and reinstalling it and it still fails.

What should I do?

Cheers

 

Is anyone from Parallels reading this?

 

Reinstall Parallels Tools.

 

After reinstalling Parallels Tools the behavior persists.

 

Completely uninstall Parallels Tools (via Add/remove Programs), restart Windows, Install PT again.

You could try reinstalling Parallels desktop also, maybe some remains of PDM7 are still around, fixing disk permissions before reinstalling might also help if teh installer is unable to delete something.

 

I'm sorry, but at which point does Parallels Tools mess around with Windows file/folder permissions? Because that's what I believe to be the issue - PD8 did not make an adequate upgrade of the parallels vm image, and somehow windows permissions got messed up.

I can do all those experiments, but beside the hassle I don't see the point in the first place. Cheers

 

For future reference, this issue wasn't solved without a Windows clean install