How to run winget as admin in powershell

24 January 2025

Execute in PS as admin the following:

Add-AppxPackage -RegisterByFamilyName -MainPackage Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe

After that. You can upgrade your packages with no problem with the command: winget upgrade --all

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