Microsoft Edge browsers crashes directly after start [FIX]

Today I had problems with my Microsoft EDGE browser (the new and cool browser in Windows 10). Directly after launch the application crashed:
Activation of app Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge failed with error: The remote procedure call failed. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.
Steps to solve:

  1. Open a powershell with admin permissions (run as administrator)
  2. Find the installationfolder
    Get-AppxPackage *edge* | fl name,*location*
  3. Navigate to the installation folder (see location from command above)
    set-location C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe
  4. Repair the Edge browser
    Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register ".\appxmanifest.xml"



18 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks a lot for the fix! Worked like a charm!

Unknown said...

Fixed thank you sir! this has bugged me for ages!

Unknown said...

Edge was crashing on opening with no error dialog. The Application log contained the following error: "Activation of application Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge failed with error: The remote procedure call failed. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information." A second error indicated that the faulting module name was eModel.dll.

My machine did not have the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log.

All that said, your fix worked for me too. Thanks!

Unknown said...

this didn't work for me personally, but eventually I randomly restarted the windows firewall service and it started working again.

Just in case anyone else has the same problem

Unknown said...

I did restart the Windows Firewall and it also started working again.... So nice, thanks!!!!

Unknown said...

This seems to have worked for me as well. I think I need to learn more about using powershell... none of these commands were at all familiar!

Unknown said...

I am running the enterpise version, not sure if this makes a diff, but am having the same issue on about all my pcs, i ran these commands, as well as restarting firewall and nothing has helped, does anyone have any other suggestions?

Unknown said...

This was driving me mad for ages. Finally got it working by clearing out the following directory:

%Userprofile%\AppData\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe

Then running:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml” -Verbose}

Unknown said...

Thank you John Garrity! Tried everything in the thread, only this worked.

Unknown said...

Love you John Garrity ! I had this problem for ages, tried tons of solutions but only yours worked !

Anonymous said...

John Garrity's solution worked for me, too on 20161112. Edge and RPC failures started after recent Windows 10 update -- never before experienced this, so glad to find the solution quickly.

Anonymous said...

... save your favorites though if you want to keep them.

Triple said...

thank you so much it's work nicely

Unknown said...

Tried the first fix, didn't help. Tried restarting Windows Firewall service, didn't help. Tried John Garrity's fix, didn't help. Next?

Unknown said...

C:\Windows\system32>reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Spartan" /v RAC_LaunchFlags /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
The operation completed successfully.

Unknown said...

Ok, well I have no idea how to type any of these commands in. Have been trying and keep getting errors in powershell. Can anyone help?

Technocrat said...

Thanks Michael Reilly. That reg add command in powershell did the trick! The OP didnt work. Nor did Garrity; seen that before in other google searches. Running Win10 Pro Fall Edition '17 x64 [Version 10.0.16299.192]

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