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Cannot uninstall or upgrade Microsoft.BingWallpaper if the app is installed in more than one account
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Description
Brief description of your issue
On one of my systems the package Microsoft.BingWallPaper is present with two different versions installed in two different users' profiles:

This results in the following winget behavior:

Steps to reproduce
Install Bing Wallpaper from two different user accounts (via the standard installer), and then attempt to uninstall it using winget.
Variant: install two different versions in two different accounts and attempt to upgrade from the account that has the lowest-numbered version installed.
Expected behavior
It should be possible to upgrade to the latest version from the account that use the lowest-numbered version installed.
Actual behavior
It's not possible to upgrade or uninstall.
Environment
Windows Package Manager v1.3.2091
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.19044.1889
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.18.2091.0
Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir
Links
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Privacy Statement https://aka.ms/winget-privacy
License Agreement https://aka.ms/winget-license
Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage https://aka.ms/winget
Windows Store Terms https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/storedocs/terms-of-sale
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the multi-account install and upgrade or uninstall attempts with the winget CLI, using the diagnostic logs under %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir. The issue names no source file or test; done means the lower-version account can upgrade and the package can be uninstalled when different user profiles contain versions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100