Why can this stuff break? Why is the only solution I see online is "lol reinstall the OS"?
What a joke of an OS.
good luck getting a fix to that with no other computers available. because all software you open is a .exe file. cause: no idea. it just happens maybe once every 3 years or so
(there's a fix: it's a microsoft .msi file that fixes it. you can somehow get that through hours of trying to open edge & looking for a fix)
in any case anyone with that issue shows up here, here's a fix:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-client/performance/running-exe-starts-another-program
