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Windows 10 Store Downloading Problem How to Fix Windows Store Problems in Windows 10 windows 10 store downloading problem How to Fix Windows Store Problems In Windows 10. After you are done, try and install an app on the Windows Store and things should work out fine. Also, if you have Windows Defender or any third party antivirus suite installed on your PC, disabling them might be a good idea. 2. Troubleshoot Windows Update and Windows Store. To start troubleshooting, go to Cortana and search for “troubleshoot” and click on the Control Panel result. In the “Troubleshooting” page, click on the option to “View All” in the left panel, which lists down all the Troubleshooting packs. Here, scroll down to the end to find the Windows Update troubleshooter, as well as the Windows Store Apps troubleshooter . Run both of them and select “Try troubleshooting as an Administrator” when the prompt comes up and the troubleshooter should be able to fix whatever problems plague your Windows Store. Once done, restart your PC and Windows Store apps should feature the install button. 3. Perform a Clean Boot. If your Windows Store downloads are stuck at “Starting” in Windows 10, doing a Clean Boot once should mend the problem. Clean boot starts up Windows 10 with no third party apps running at startup to let you identify if any third party services or startup items are causing the issues. Here’s how to do a clean boot: Go to Cortana or Start and search for “msconfig” and click on the “System Configuration” result. Then, go to the “Services” tab of System Configuration and check the “Hide all Microsoft services” option. Then, hit the “Disable All” button. After you are done, go to the “Startup” tab and open “Task Manager” . In the Task Manager, go to “Startup” tab and disable all the startup items one by one. Once done, click “Ok” in the System Configuration window and restart your PC. The computer will then restart in clean boot and you can then try and install apps in the Windows Store. If the apps are downloading, there might be some third party services or startup items that might be interfering with Windows Store. So, you can disable some apps or startup items permanently to make sure the problem does not rise again. However, for us, the apps started downloading by just doing a clean boot once. After the clean boot, you can do a normal boot by going to “System Configuration” and selecting “Normal startup” in the “General” tab. 4. Clear Cache of the Windows 10 Store app. If the Windows Store on your PC is prone to crashes or it’s simply not starting up , you can clear the cache of the Store. If you are running one of the latest versions of Windows 10 (or an Insider Preview build), you can clear cache of the Store in Windows 10 Settings. You can go Settings- >System->Apps & features and in the app listing, scroll down below to find Store and click on it. Then, click on the “Advanced options” button and in the next page, hit the “Reset” button, which should clear all the data in the Store. If you don’t have the aforementioned options in your Windows 10 build, there’s another way. You can just search for “wsreset” in Cortana and press Enter to run the command. This should open a Command Prompt window and then, open the Store afresh. Fix your Windows Store problems in Windows 10 with these methods. We have tried and tested all the aforementioned methods and while they did work for us, we are not sure if it’s the end solution for all devices. However, feel free to try them out and let us know if they work for you. Also, let us know if you have any other different solution to a Store issue in Windows 10. Well, that’s all from our side but don’t forget to let us know if you found these solutions helpful. However, if you have any doubts or you’re facing another issue with the Windows 10 Store, feel free to contact us through the comments section below. TAGS. 1 COMMENT. Thanks for sharing this informative article it carry my relevant points, do keep up the good work. Windows Store Download Problem. Hey there, I'm trying to download Forza Horizon 3 on the PC, I bought it just last night. But I have an issue with the download on the download store. For some weird reason, the download keeps just saying Downloading. But the speed appears to be 0, as the progress bar doesn't move, and the only way I can get it to start downloading is to pause it, and start the download again, I managed to download 20GB this way, but I pressed the little X instead of the pause, and it completely reset my download, 20GB, just gone, poof. And I know it's not a problem with my internet, as steam downloads work just fine, going at about 10MB/s. Is there anyway to restore my download progress, and make the download work consistently? Subscribe Subscribe to RSS feed. Report abuse. Replies (3) There are a number of possible explanations as to why you're encountering issues downloading a game from the Windows Store. Here's a list of the common factors: There's a network interruption during the download process. The storage space on your device is not enough. You're trying to download the game to an external storage. There are software conflicts that occur when downloading the game. Corrupted app data Your device doesn't meet the game's requirements. Let's first verify if your device meets the game requirements. See How to find out if a game will work on your Windows 10 device for the checklist that you have to perform in order to determine if the device meets the game requirements. Another solution we suggest is to run the Windows apps troubleshooter. This can help resolve issues downloading, installing, and updating apps from the Windows Store. Aside from that, we also need to make sure that your Windows 10 device is up-to-date. Check out How to get software and driver updates for Windows 10 for the steps. If the same issue occurs, kindly reset the Store app: Open Settings . Go to Apps & features . Select Store . Click Advanced options . Click the Reset button . Click Reset again to confirm. Restart your device so that the changes will take effect. Try installing the game and check if the same issue occurs. Keep us posted with the results. We'd be glad to offer additional solutions. 3 quick fixes for your Windows Store problems. Some days I really, really hate the Windows Store in Windows 10. For the past few days I’ve been trying to find a fix to a very specific problem with two apps that refuse to update. I haven’t solved it yet, but during my travels through the interwebs I’ve come across several easy-to-use fixes that have helped others. If you’re currently finding that the Windows Store is not working as it should, here are three simple fixes to try before doing anything else. Check your time and date settings. Sometimes the Windows Store won’t update if your time and date settings are incorrect. To make sure they’re right, click on the time and date in the far right corner of the taskbar. In the panel that appears, select Date and time settings , which will open the settings app. At the top, make sure the time is correct. If it’s wrong, make sure the sliders for Set time automatically and Set time zone automatically are set to on. If that doesn’t get you the correct time, then turn both sliders off and set the time manually with the controls below. WSReset. Windows 10’s wsreset command is easy to find using Cortana. The next thing you can try is a little command called “wsreset.” As its name suggests, this utility will reset the Windows Store cache in Windows 10 (as well as Windows 8). It’s easy to do and tends of solve a lot of problems. The easiest way to get to the program is to type wsreset into the Cortana search box. The top result should be similar to what’s pictured here. Once you click the wseset option, a command-line window will open and run the executable file WSReset.exe. It may just sit there for a while doing nothing. Don’t worry about it. Just let the reset window sit there until it closes automatically. You’ll know it’s finished when the Windows Store app boots up. Once the reset is done, try to carry out the update or whatever other operation you wanted to do. Erase some temporary files. One recommended fix is to erase a bunch of files and logs and try downloading and updating again. Basically, what you’ll be doing is deleting everything you find in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore and C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download . The site Tech Geek and More has a longer, step-by-step explanation of this process, including advice to stop the Windows Update service before deleting those files. Those are the three most basic fixes you should try first. Check the error code and look online for workarounds. If they don’t work, it’s time to get serious. Copy the error code you’re getting—Textify can help with that—and then search online for potential fixes on the various help forums.
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