0x80240437 Windows 8 Store error while installing apps

Anonymous
2013-02-12T10:54:48+00:00

This error code suddenly appears in WIndows 8 Store when trying to install or update apps....  Solutions to this have not yet been found.

There are many references to some date and time issues but they are correct on my Computer.

I did use the troubleshouter for Windows update which states that something has been corrected.

There are errors in my Event logs...

ID 36888 System Log; A fatal alert was generated and sent to the remote endpoint. This may result in termination of the connection. The TLS protocol defined fatal error code is 10. The Windows SChannel error state is 10.

this is a fairly new Installation...

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-08-30T17:20:16+00:00

    Penso che una societa seria dovrebbe intervenire per risolvere un problema che si sta estendendo a tanti,non puo' essere una coincidenza.FATE qualcosa Grazie

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-08-30T16:58:25+00:00

    At this point does anyone even know what an error: 0x80240437 is?

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-08-30T16:19:48+00:00
    1. The app updates are for Bing News, Bing Travel, Kindle, & Yahoo Mail (see below)
    2. No 3rd party security software has been loaded
    3. Issue not confined to particular app
    4. No, I do not have issues installing Windows updates
    5. No proxy has been set
    6. A simple home network
    7. No changes made....was working 2 days ago, and starting yesterday it stopped.

    This morning, received notice of update for Yahoo Mail and had the same issue. I uninstalled the app and attempted to reinstall. Now I can't even install the app at all and receive same error message as all other apps waiting for updates....0x80240437.

    Have tried all suggested methods to resolve the issue without success.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-08-30T15:13:53+00:00

    I had this issue on my Asus VivoTab RT and was able to resolve it by running the "Refresh My PC" feature.  It took a long time and had to reboot a few times, but I had all my apps and settings, and was able to use the Windows Store again.

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-08-30T15:04:02+00:00

    This has also happened to me. I was notified (in windows store) that there were updates to finance, sports, news, travel, Kindle. None of them will update and now I cannot install any new apps. It just says it could not install the update and uses error code: 80240437. As far as I can tell that is MS speak for "I don't know what happened!"

    It has also happened this week to my daughters new dell tablet. I am running Windows 8 Pro and she is running Windows 8 RT. We have run the troubleshooter, the wsreset, checked the proxy, and are both using the MS virus checker. Based on the recent flurry of posts across the web I am beginning to think it is an update MS sent out. Short of completely stripping and reloading the machine, anyone have any more ideas?

    I'm in exactly the same position.

    I do have my wife's machine to compare mine with but currently she is working OK and getting updates without the uses error code: 80240437. I have done all the same diagnostics as you have but they haven't fixed it. I have also run DISM and SCF and they haven't found any errors.

    I can't even find this error in the error logs with event viewer so can't really track down why it is happening.

    It looks like it goes to the store correctly then starts to download and then comes up with the error. Is this what you are seeing?

    Do you have any apps on the start screen with a "cross" on them? If you do then click on it and it should say something like "can't open app" and under this there is "go to store". Click on this and on mine it says "Your developer license has expired, please renew". If you get this it looks like the same issue.

    Too me it looks like a corruption somewhere in this store that is impacting us or the store account has got corrupted either on our machines or in the store.

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