Quick fix: Press Win + R, type wsreset.exe, press Enter. The Store cache resets in 30 seconds and the app relaunches. If it still crashes, run Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore | Reset-AppxPackage from elevated PowerShell to fully reset the Store app while preserving installed apps. You click the Microsoft Store icon. The Store splash appears for a … Read more
Quick fix: Open Internet Properties (inetcpl.cpl) → Advanced tab, scroll to the Security section, tick TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3, untick SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0, apply, reboot — the 0x80131500 error is a TLS handshake failure on the Store endpoint. Microsoft Store fails to load, shows the error code 0x80131500, or displays a generic … Read more
Quick fix: Open Terminal (Admin) and run Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsStore | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml"} — re-registers Microsoft Store from its existing files. If files were fully deleted, install via the offline package method (Method 2). You ran a Windows debloater script or removed Microsoft Store manually via PowerShell. Now you can’t install any … Read more
Quick fix: Open Terminal (Admin), run net stop bits; net stop wuauserv; Remove-Item -Recurse -Force C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download; net start wuauserv; net start bits, then retry the download — most “Pending” stalls come from a corrupted partial in the BITS download cache. You click Get or Update in Microsoft Store and the button changes to “Pending.” Twenty … Read more
Quick fix: Open Terminal (Admin) and run Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue} — re-registers every AppX package on the system from its existing installation files. Store apps are misbehaving: Calculator won’t open, Microsoft Store loads to a blank screen, Photos crashes on launch, several built-in apps disappeared from Start menu. … Read more
Quick fix: Reset the Store cache with wsreset.exe, then re-register Microsoft Store with a single PowerShell command — 90% of “download won’t start” cases come back online with these two steps. You click Get on an app in Microsoft Store and nothing happens. Or the download shows Pending for a few seconds and silently fails. … Read more
Quick fix: Press Win + R, type wsreset.exe, press Enter — a blank Command Prompt window appears for ~30 seconds, then Microsoft Store opens with a fresh cache. Microsoft Store is misbehaving: apps won’t download, updates stick on Pending, search returns no results, or the Library tab is blank. The cache layer between the Store … Read more
Quick fix: Open Microsoft Store → click your profile icon (top-right) → Settings → toggle App updates Off. New versions stop downloading automatically until you re-enable. To update on demand, go to Library → click Get updates. Microsoft Store auto-updates installed apps in the background. Sometimes you don’t want this — a specific Spotify version … Read more
Quick fix: Microsoft Store doesn’t hide apps in its UI directly, but apps purchased on another device under the same MSA may not appear in your Library by default. Open Store → Library → View all and check filter dropdowns. Also try ms-windows-store://library URL. For pre-installed apps not in Start menu, check shell:appsfolder in Run. … Read more
Quick fix: Microsoft Store apps store user data in %LocalAppData%\Packages\<PackageFullName>. If apps show data from a different account, the wrong user is signed in. Sign out of the app, sign back in with the correct Microsoft Account. For Store itself: profile icon → Sign out → Sign in. You launch a Microsoft Store app (Mail, … Read more