How to Fix File System Error 1073545193 in Windows 10

So, for many users who upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10, upon opening any image or store applications or just the store app itself, are getting a File System Error (-1073545193). Running troubleshooting is of no help, as troubleshooter just don’t know what to fix in that. Also, troubleshooter is not meant to fix File System Errors. Also, this error depicts that it’s a file system error yet, running File System scan (sfc /scannow) command in command prompt won’t fix it.

How to Fix File System Error 1073545193 in Windows 10

Solution 1

Let’s start with basics.

• Press Windows key + R.
• When Run command box opens, type in

1	wsreset.exe

• Press enter.

This should fix the issue. If not, and you get an error like below, head over to Solution 2.

1 2	ms-windows-store:PurgeCaches File System error (-1073545193)

Solution 2

Since the problem is with Apps installed by Windows Store and Photos app [Filesystem error (-1058340861)] is also one of the app from Store itself. That’s why you’re facing this trouble while opening images too. So, rather than i may advice you to reinstall windows, give following steps a last chance by removing all these modern apps and then reinstalling again. This would give all proper permissions and resources required by apps to work seamlessly. So let’s start by removing Windows Store apps first and the store itself too:

• Open Start Menu and type powershell. When relevant result of PowerShell (don’t select PowerShell ISE) appears, right click on it and select Run as Administrator. Or alternatively you can also press Ctrl+Shift+Enter to open PowerShell with admin privileges. This is important, or the command won’t be able to run properly without proper permissions.

• Type in following command in it. Be known that this command would remove all modern applications from current user. And when re-installing, you’ll have to install the apps (other that bundled apps of Windows 10) you require manually from Windows Store.

1	Get-AppXPackage | Remove-AppxPackage

Or if you want to remove applications from all users, you can use following command:

1	Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

Now, again, PowerShell as administrator. And type in following command. This command would restore Windows Store and all bundled apps which usually comes with Windows 10 by default. Other apps other than bundled apps would have to be re-installed manually via Windows Store by you. So, here’s the command to restore bundled apps and Windows Store itself:

1	Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

Just in case, if you get an access denied error, then you might have to take full ownership of WindowsApps folder located at following path:

1	C:\Program Files\WindowsApps

After taking full permissions, you can repeat above command in PowerShell to fix File System Error 1073545193 error in your computer.

How to Create Windows 10 Bootable ISO from ESD File (ESD To ISO)

Use of ESD files started when Windows 10 Technical Preview were upgraded to a new build using PC settings Download and install method. This way, Microsoft uses ESD files (Electronic Software Delivery) to deliver install files required for upgrade to next build of Windows 10 technical preview. Usually an install.esd file contains install.wim (Windows imaging) in a encrypted and compressed form. And install.wim have all the files which is required to complete a Windows installation. Using this tutorial, you’ll be able to make a bootable ISO file from install.esd file which further can be used to burned to a DVD or for making a bootable USB for upgrade or clean install of Windows.

ESD To ISO – Create Windows 10 Bootable ISO from ESD File

So, here’s what we need to do:

• Check in Windows update if you’re on latest build and then you have latest install.esd file.
• Download ESDtoISO tool from here. This tool is based on ESD Decrypter V3. Script credit goes to Mr. Kari who made this script and shared it with public.
• Unzip the respective file (applicable to your current windows build) to any folder of your choice at any place.
• Now copy that install.esd file you have to the folder where you extracted files ofESDtoISO  zip file.
• Right click on ESOtoISO.cmd file and “Run as Administrator“. This command shall automatically find the ESD file in your folder and present you with a choice of commands:

• Select the choice you want to go with.
  • If you want to have a traditional ISO withinstall.wim file for installing windows, choose ‘1’.
  • If you want to have an ISO withinstall.esd file for installing windows, choose ‘2’.
  • Press ‘0’ to close the command options.
What difference both ISO would have is:
• Creation of ISO with install.wim would take few more minutes than what ISO with install.esd would take.
• During Windows installation using these ISO’s, the one having install.wim would take less to install windows rather than the one having install.esd in ISO.
Both ISO does the identical work of installing Windows and can be used to be burned as DVD or for making bootable USB or even mounting it virutally.
Why ISO with install.esd takes more during Windows installation, as install.esd is a compressed and encrypted file, hence Windows installer takes more time in decompressing and decrypting files from it when compared with install.wim installation time. However the time difference gap is not very big.

But still going a traditional way always benefits more in compatibility factors in future, hence i would suggest you go to with option ‘1‘ i.e. “Create Full ISO with Standard install.wim“.

• After choosing option, let the tool run for sometime. If it shows error of “Missing key” just ignore and continue with the process.

• ISO would be saved in same folder automatically and can take up to half an hour depending on how fast hardware you got. After ISO is built, cut and save it on your appropriate place of your backup.
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What is $Windows.~BT folder and How to Delete It?

While Windows 10 has not major hard drive requirements, nor high-end hardware, it’s just 16GB for 32bit OS and 20 GB for 64 Bit version, but this whole upgrade process leaves a chunk of temporary windows files which eats up a good value of your free space in hard drive. This folder appeared when Windows 10 up-gradation has started. There will be 2 folders i.e. $Windows.~BT, and $Windows.~WS which shall be used by windows for upgrading to Windows 10. However $Windows.~BT is the folder where Windows backup your previous OS whether it would be Windows 7 or Windows 8. Don’t touch these folders till the time you upgrade to Windows 10.

When you have upgraded to Windows 10, you’ll find that $Windows.~BT is consuming a good chunk of your drive space. Now there arise a need to getting rid of these folder, and you just can’t use Delete option for this folder as Windows won’t allow you to delete this easily for obvious reasons. Also you’ll find awindows.old folder, which is a copy of system files of previous windows.

Solution 1

Regarding deletion of $Windows.~BT or even Windows.old folder, procedure is fairly simple:

• Press Windows key + R (when being on desktop)
• When “Run” command box appears, type:
• cleanmgr.exe
• Hit Enter.

This shall open a dialog box of Disk Cleanup. Choose C:\ or the drive where you have these folders.

After Disk cleanup is done scanning, Click “Clean Up System files“. Now it’ll again ask to select Drive, choose same drive and click “OK“.

Now, you’ll be presented with choices to clean “Previous Windows Installations“, “Temporary Windows installations files“. Choose the options which shall help you gain back a big chunk of hard drive space back. Click Ok and let it delete those in background.

You’ll find that “Windows.old” folder is no more, but chances are that you’ll still find $Windows.~BT, and $Windows.~WS in your hard drive. Then you need to follow “Solution 2“.

Solution 2

If Solution 1 doesn’t helps you, then you’ll need to take complete ownership of $Windows.~BT folder.

• Right click on $Windows.~BT folder and choose Properties.
• Go to Security Tab and Choose you current user with which you’re logged in.
• Click Edit. Again choose your current user with which you’re logged in your computer.

• Click Check box of “Full Control” and Click Apply and OK.

• Again Click OK to close last dialogue box. Now you’ve full ownership of $Windows.~BT folder.
• Now right click on the folder and simply delete it.

Microsoft recommends that you should keep this folder, in case you never know what happens wrong with software’s, and you might need to roll back to previous windows. For same reasons, windows.old folder must not be deleted until you really have a crisis of space in your hard drive.

How to remove the Windows.old and $Windows.~BT folders after you upgrade Windows

How to remove the Windows.old and $Windows.~BT folders after you upgrade Windows

When you upgrade your current version of Windows to a newer version, the upgrade process will create backups of important directories from your previous version of Windows. These directories include your user profiles, Windows folder, Program Files directory, and other important locations. These backups are then stored in two folders called Windows.oldand $Windows.~BT, which can be used after the upgrade to recover any data that may not have been properly migrated over to the new version of Windows. These two folders, though, can use up a significant amount of hard drive space on your computer. Therefore, if you are sure you no longer need any of the files in those folders and all of your data and apps have been migrated successfully, it is a good idea to remove these two folders to reclaim that space for other programs to use.

Before deleting the backups of your old Windows folders, please make sure that you have all of your data migrated to the new version of Windows. Unless you have created a backup, these folders will be permanently deleted from your computer.

To delete these folders you can use a Windows tool called Disk Cleanup. To access Disk Cleanup, type cleanmgr in the search field of the Windows Start Menu or on the Windows 8 Start Screen. When the search result appears as cleanmgr.exeor Disk Cleanup, please click on that result to launch the program.

When the program launches it will perform a scan of your computer's hard drives to determine what files can be cleaned up and how much storage space they use.

It may take a few minutes to scan your drives, so please be patient. When it is done you will be shown the Disc Cleanup screen.

The default Disk Cleanup screen does not allow you to remove system files, so we need to enable those options first. To enable them click on the Clean up system files button as indicated by the red arrow in the image above. When you click on this button, the Disk Cleanup program will restart and scan your hard drives again. When it is finished scanning the Disk Cleanup program will open again, but this time with some extra options that you can select as shown in the image below.

As you can see you can now see a Previous Windows installation(s) option that you can select. This option refers to the Windows.old and $Windows.~BT folders that we discussed earlier. If you scroll down you will also see another option labeled Temporary Windows Installation Files, which corresponds to temporary files that were left over from when you installed the new version of Windows. As we no longer need these files, we will remove them as well.

To remove the Windows.old, $Windows.~BT, and windows install files put a check mark in the optioned labeled Previous Windows installation(s) and Temporary Windows Installation Files. Then click on the OK button. The Disk Cleanup wizard will now ask if you are sure you wish to permanently delete these files.

If you are sure you wish to delete the files, click on the Delete Files button. The Disk Cleanup wizard will now begin the process of deleting the selected files and data from your computer.

If there is a lot of data to delete, please be patient while they are removed from your hard drive. Once the files have been removed, the Disk Cleanup program will automatically close. The Windows.old, $Windows.~BT, and the Windows temporary installation files have now been removed from your computer.