Recommend Checking for Winget Registration on Install in WinUtil

[james8675309]

Hi - I recently have come across some issues among friends and family members, and then with my own computer with winget. When repairing peoples computers or reinstalling, etc, I often use Winget or a combination of Winget and this utlilty.

I had an outstanding issue with quite a few of the below cases where PS would state that Winget wasn't installed,. Windows Store would say it was installed or wouldn't show winget at all. When using WinUtil through last week, it would fail when Chocolatey tried to force installation.

The following cases seem to be the source of this issue:

• If you add or remove a Microsoft Account to an existing Hard Encoded Account (such as a work or school account) for Office 365 or for One Drive--- This happened to one of my buddies. I had set him up with winget to update his apps while back, it stopped working after he removed his school account after he graduated from College.
• I had a custom script that invoked Winget to update various programs that an older family members computer so I didn't have to spend a hour when visiting fixing their comp[uter. We recently did a Windows Reset to clean it up, keeping files but it was supposed to reset all programs.... it didn't. Winget was floating somewhere, exhibiting the above issues.
• I've seen issues where domain added accounts (my own home lab and at work) where if you log in to a computer using another account from the one that installed Winget, it doesn't work like above.

I happened to run across the fix for this about 5 days ago. Note, in all of these instances, I tried to use WinUtil to force a reinstall of Winget and it always failed.
The fix I happened to find on Microsofts Winget Install page. You have to register the Winget app again on new or modified User Accounts using the following line:

Add-AppxPackage -RegisterByFamilyName -MainPackage Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe

I ran this on each of the cases where I was having this issue, and bam, it works perfectly now for my friend, my aunt & uncles computer, and my two computers where this was an issue.

I don't know enough about how this utility works in the backend to submit changes... But is there any way this check can be added if someone select ths install Winget option in the utility?