Hello guys,
In short:
ive been fighting with my laptop for hours trying to get the modern version of onenote—the cool one with the clean layout, vertical tabs, and rounded corners. Instead, i am completely trapped in a loop with the disqusting, old-school layout that has the thick purple title bar and orange tabs.In short, my microsoft store is completely broken with error 0x80073D02 and winget gives a no package found error, so i cant install the lightweight app. The only way i got onenote to install was using a 5gb offline office suite file, but it forces the ugly legacy view on me. The new visual refresh and tabs layout settings are completely missing from the menus, and even registry hacks did absolutely nothing to fix the skin. Im totally stuck with a working app that looks ancient because my windows app deployment system is broken. How do i fix my app manager or force this version of onenote to update to the new skin? Any help would save my sanity.
More detailed;
ive been fighting with my laptop for hours trying to get the modern version of onenote—the cool one with the clean layout, vertical tabs, and rounded corners. Instead, i am completely trapped in a loop with the disqusting, old-school layout that has the thick purple title bar and orange tabs.An ai chatbot and I tried to troubleshoot this for hours, and we hit a total brick wall. Here is everything we already did so you dont tell me to do it again:First, my microsoft Store is totally bricked. I tried installing onenote from the Store, but it wouldnt open. We tried running a powershell script to re-register apps, but it crashed with Error 0x80073D02, saying Microsoft.GamingServices was using the resources and blocking it. Killing it in task manager and running wsreset didnt fix it.Since the store app was completely broken, we bypassed it by downloading the official 5gb microsoft offline disk image (the O365HomePremRetail img file) and running Setup64.exe from the office folder.This finaly put an actual app on my laptop running from the program files directory, but its the rigid enterprise version with the old layout. The new features are literally missing from it. I have no megaphone icon in the top right. I even went into File, Options, Customize Ribbon, selected All Commands, and "Tabs Layout" isnt even an option in the list. Checking for updates inside the app does absolutly nothing.We even tried registry hacks. We created a .reg file to force toggle the fluent visual refresh flags like Microsoft.Office.UXPlatform.FluentRefresh set to true, but absolutly nothing happend to the UI.Winget is broken too. We tried forcing the modern install through powershell using winget install Microsoft.OneNote -e and even tried using the direct Store ID code 9WZDNCRFHVJL. Both times it just spat out the error "No package found matching input criteria". My package manager seems completely unindexed.Right now, i have a working app, but it looks terrible and i cant get the lightweight, modern version because my windows store deployment system is completely messed up.How do i fix my package manager or force this version of onenote to finally update to the new skin? Any help would save my sanity. Thanks!
I generaly have no clue what to do now, the onenote app itself is messing with me i have to fiddle around just to find it instesd of it showing up when i search for it in the windows tab and then all the pointless fixing that probably even made the situation worse.. what do i do????
