Did you do one of those in-place upgrades/reinstall? If so, how did it work? Was it literally as you left it after?

^ does this guy sound like a spammy robot or what? The blog post looks legit though.

#1 Basically yes. I use Rufus though because I made my Windows GPT partitioned (allows UEFI) not MBR. If you're not familiar with those terms you need not concern with them and just do what you...

Me too. In the meanwhile why is this thread marked as Solved? It clearly isn't for many of us.

Incorrect I would assume. Since W10 is basically reinstalling, it won't know what apps you have and to reinstall them, so I would think they will still physically be on your HDD but won't be linked...

Same problem here. I seem to be missing the WinStore folder/directory completely from C:\Windows\. This is on a couple of weeks old install of Windows 10 v10586. Funny thing is I never did anything...