Like many other users, that strange problem has happened to me, with Windows 10, the Store and some apps that no longer worked. The Windows Store is the official Microsoft store for downloading applications, free or paid, a bit like the iTunes store or Google Play on Android smartphones.
Although the Microsoft Store is often ignored, there are many apps to download, even very useful such as VLC, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Photshop.
We saw a collection of the best apps for Windows 10 in another article.
For some mysterious reason, perhaps on PC with multiple users or for using bad programs, it may happen that the Windows 10 Store and other apps such as the Photos and Music Groove Store stop working properly and do not open anymore or even they are gone .
If there is this problem with the Store in Windows 10 or with other apps, here's how to fix it .
1) First of all, try using the automated tool provided by Microsoft to repair the Windows Store .
The Microsoft Fix analyzes the system, detects any problems that could prevent it from functioning properly, and if possible automatically corrects any errors without having to do anything.
The automatic fix for the Windows 10 store can be used by going to Settings> Update and security> Troubleshooting .
From the right screen, select Windows Store apps under the Find column and fix other problems .
Follow the wizard by clicking Next until it ends.
After using it, restart your PC and see if the Store opens or, if it still doesn't work, go to the next point.
2) Reset the Windows 10 Store
Resetting the app store means clearing the cache and solving problems installing or updating applications.
To do this, just press the Windows + R keys together to open the Run box and type the wsreset.exe command.
After about ten seconds the black window that appears on the screen closes and the Store should automatically open.
The reset of the Windows 10 Store can be done, after the "anniversary Update" of 29 July 2016, also from the Settings, going to System -> Apps and Features, identifying the store and the other apps that do not work, by pressing the Advanced settings button that appears below and then pressing Reset on the next screen.
3) Maybe it's a connection problem
If you get a connection error when you start the Store or when you download or update an app, you can try to see if it resolves by changing a registry key.
Press the Windows + R keys to open the Run box, type the regedit command and click OK.
From the registry editor, using the folders on the left, expand the following path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ NetworkList \ Profiles
Right click on Profiles and go to Authorizations, then click on Advanced, put the cross in the option " replace all authorization items of child objects with authorization entries inheritable from this object ".
Press OK and restart your PC.
4) Re-register the Windows Store
This was the solution that worked for me.
The Microsoft App Store cannot be uninstalled, but if for some reason it has disappeared from Windows 10, it is not found or is with an empty icon and does not start, it may be that the registry key that "binds" it to the system.
To do this, it is not necessary to open the registry keys editor, but the Powershell utility which can be found from the Start menu and which must be run as administrator (right click on it and choose Run as administrator).
Once Powershell is opened, type the following command (you can copy and paste):
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
Press the Y if required.
Then write and run:
"& {$ manifest = (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore) .InstallLocation + '\ AppxManifest.xml'; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $ manifest}"
5) Reinstall the Store or any other app than the ones preinstalled in Windows 10
To reinstall the Windows Store if it is really gone, you must follow this procedure from Powershell (as explained in point 4) which also applies to other apps.
Get-Appxpackage –Allusers
Scroll down and locate the app entry you want to reinstall and copy the package name.
For example, if you are trying to reinstall the Store, locate the Microsoft.WindowsStore entry and copy the name of the PackageFullName (in my case it is Microsoft.WindowsStore_11602.1.26.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe ).
After selecting the PackageFullName use Ctrl + C to copy it.
Finally, run the following command:
Add-AppxPackage -register "C: \ Program Files \ WindowsApps \ package-name \ AppxManifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode replacing the package-name with that of Microsoft.WindowsStore found.
In several cases, an error message such as ... Distribution failed with ... ... could not register the package etc.
Continue to try or restart your PC or go to the next solution.
Another way to reinstall the store is to download the preinstalled app file in Windows 10 Reinstall-preinstalledApps.zip from the Microsoft website, extract the ZIP file on the desktop and then, from Powershell, run the following commands.
CD C: \ Users \ username \ Desktop (replace username with the username of the PC).
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
. \ reinstall-preinstalledApp.ps1
Restart your PC and try to see if all the missing or not working apps are back in place.
6) Restore Windows Update
If there are problems updating the Store or the applications themselves, you can try to correct Windows Update errors by using Microsoft's automatic fix for this problem too.
7) If nothing really works, create a new user on Windows 10 .
To do this, open the command prompt as an administrator and type the command:
net user "user" "password" / add changing user and password as you prefer.
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