Dashel Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Does anyone have a lead for the "Something happened and the Windows Store is no longer working, please restart or refresh blah blah" error message? Have now seen it show up on several Win8 devices. Occurs across all accounts, wsreset has no effect. Refresh unavailable as well, missing files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Does anyone have a lead for the "Something happened and the Windows Store is no longer working, please restart or refresh blah blah" error message? Have now seen it show up on several Win8 devices. Occurs across all accounts, wsreset has no effect. Refresh unavailable as well, missing files. Do you have your Windows installation or recovery media for the Refresh feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashel Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 I really don't want to refresh, nor spend time fixing MSs broken features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I really don't want to refresh, nor spend time fixing MSs broken features. Have you tried sfc /scannow from an elevated Command Prompt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashel Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 I did on one, waste of time as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I did on one, waste of time as usual. Have you tried the Windows Store application troubleshooter? http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/2/2/F22D5FDB-59CD-4275-8C95-1BE17BF70B21/AppsDiagnostic.diagcab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggers Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Try going to ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepsitory (you`ll need to allow permissions). Then delete all the edb.log files and reboot. Worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashel Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 The app troubleshooter detects damage but can't repair. Looks like I need to change ownership to access that folder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John.D Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Try this from here Method 2: Clear the Store Cache You may try these steps to clear the Store cache and check if that helps: a) Press the ?Windows Logo? + ?R? keys on the keyboard. b) Type ?wsreset.exe? and press ?Enter?. c) Reboot the computer and then check if you are able to open the Windows Store and all the other apps on the computer. If that doesn?t help, then you may try re-registering the Windows Store App by following the instructions given below and check if that helps. Method 3: Re-register the Windows Store App To re-register, please try these steps: a) Press ?Windows Logo? + ?Q? keys on the keyboard and type ?cmd? in the search box. b) Right click on the ?Command Prompt? icon from the search results and select ?Run as administrator? c) On the command prompt window, copy and paste the following command, and then press ?Enter? powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\WinStore\AppxManifest.xml d) Check the result displayed on the command prompt window. e) If it was successfully processed, then type ?Exit? and press ?Enter?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian W Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 The app troubleshooter detects damage but can't repair. Looks like I need to change ownership to access that folder? Yes, you would need to change ownership to access the AppRepository folder. http://www.thewindowsclub.com/something-happened-windows-store-is-no-longer-working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashel Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 I had tried those previously John. Deleting the EDBs seems to have worked, will monitor. I assume I should reassign ownership afterwards? I wonder what the trigger was. I did lose an SSD on this PC (hybrid cache), but why its occurring elsewhere is a mystery. Could EDB corruption follow my account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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