Cannot Download Anything From Microsoft Store

I just put myself in the hands of Microsoft and was at their mercy for while. I ran the install from the ISO file. It completed eventually and the laptop restarted. It is now too late in the day to know the effects. Tomorrow will be the big test when I see if I can download anything from the MS Store.

Time will tell and all will be revealed.

Caledon Ken said:

Yes. Please see tutorial. Read warnings, simple enough, using ISO is step 4 however you need to do steps 1-3.
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
Ken

Hello again, well I followed your suggestion and did the Repair install. Guess what, I still cannot download anything from the store or check for updates.

I also followed up by doing all the things I did in my first post in this thread, religiously following the applicable instructions in the Tenforums tutorials. Grrrrrr...this is getting to be a real bear.

Peter B.

TairikuOkami said:

Try this. Run "WF.bat" as admin. Additionally try Wise Care 365, it helped me to solve my WU problems.

Thanks for the post. What does WF.bat do? Right now my system won't let it run. Also I use Wise Care on my other machines, but it won't download on my Surface Book, I get an error message that the download has a virus in it? errr...

TairikuOkami said:

[Batch] Windows Update Fix - Pastebin.com

Thanks, what are the risks to my laptop?

TairikuOkami said:

None, as far as I can tell, though it might burst in flames due to high CPU activity. :)

I can do this in my workshop near the sink with a fire extinguisher handy so I should be OK, eh?

I gave it a whirl, now lets see if there are any changes.

“”C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem USE AT OWN RISK AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND !!!!!
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem FixWin -
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem Windows Repair Toolbox - https://windows-repair-toolbox.com
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem Windows Update Agent Reset - Script Reset Windows Update Agent
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem Windows Update Troubleshooter - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...troubleshooter
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem Chkdsk
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem Redesigning chkdsk and the new NTFS health model Building Windows 8
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem To repair bad sectors run
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem chkdsk C: /r
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem To fix Windows corrupted files include
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem sfc /scannow
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem To edit Registry (if you can not boot into Windows)
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem Boot Windows USB - Repair - Troubleshoot - CMD - type/enter
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem c:
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem cd windows
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem cmd
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem regedit
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem Select HKLM (or required key)
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem File - Load Hive - C:\WINDOWS\System32\Config (select required Hive, like System/HKLM)
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem SAVE - Unload Hive (when you finish editing)
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\International" /v "sDecimal" /t REG_SZ /d "." /fThe operation completed successfully.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AdvertisingInfo" /fThe operation completed successfully.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\WindowsUpdate" /fERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg delete "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /fERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsStore\WindowsUpdate" /fERROR: Access is denied.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate" /fERROR: Access is denied.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsSelfHost" /fERROR: Access is denied.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg delete "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /fERROR: Access is denied.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>reg delete "HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsStore\WindowsUpdate" /fERROR: Access is denied.
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>rem To restart explorer
C:\Users\adminvz\Downloads C\Microsoft\Windows 10>taskkill /im explorer.exe /f & explorer.exeSUCCESS: The process "explorer.exe" with PID 3896 has been terminated.SUCCESS: The process "explorer.exe" with PID 7644 has been terminated.""

Now I will check to see if it made a difference.