[help needed] Windows Store still thinks removed apps are installed

Hi guys, so basically I've ran into an issue with the app store where it will not let me install a game even though it is not installed anymore, it still show the game as installed...
it's actually more than one game but it started with gears of war 4, may update had released but the store wasn't showing any updates so I decided to uninstall the game and reinstall it. When I went to uninstall it, I got an error message like this:
As I said its happening with more then one game/app but started with gears.

So I decided to remove the files of the game manually including registry keys. I can't find anything else related to gears of war 4 on my pc but it still pops up in windows store as installed and Cortana search. clicking play does nothing.

it should be saying install

any solution to get the store seeing it as not installed?

Anyone have a solution?

Does anyone know what I can do that wont result in me resetting my system?

May not be the solution for the issue but I find whatever I get from the Store is registered in the Store's database and not removed from that list when I uninstall the program. Haven't yet found a way to modify that database to show the program doesn't exist on a particular computer.

Interesting, so we just need to find a way to modify the stores database from the sound of it

James0001 said:

Interesting, so we just need to find a way to modify the stores database from the sound of it

Since the Store and its database is on Microsoft's computers that may be hard to do. One of the downsides of computing and the Internet is how much data is retained by, guess who, anyone we have interaction with which includes this forum where typed responses are auto-saved until actually posted.