How to fix "windows cannot find 'ms-windows-store:purge caches', make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again"

Anonymous
2013-01-20T06:29:05+00:00

I got an error message saying "windows cannot find 'ms-windows-store:purge caches', make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again". I have no ideas what it mean. Please help.

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Anonymous
2013-10-20T23:06:00+00:00

Go to

Ctrl X

Bring up the Windows powershell admin

Type in the following

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\WinStore\AppxManifest.xml

Go back to windows store and it should re-work!!

Kudos to Luis Cantero from this post http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8\_1-windows\_store/just-updated-to-windows-81-and-the-windows-store/c4cf204d-bd99-426c-b800-9c9125ae739c?page=2

Enjoy

Yahya Al-Din

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-06T18:23:00+00:00

    This does not work! It says because it does not exist.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-22T21:11:59+00:00

    error 0x80073B1F cannot register how it fix ????

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-15T14:00:26+00:00

    Go to

    Ctrl X

    Bring up the Windows powershell admin

    Type in the following

    powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\WinStore\AppxManifest.xml

    Go back to windows store and it should re-work!!

    Kudos to Luis Cantero from this post http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8\_1-windows\_store/just-updated-to-windows-81-and-the-windows-store/c4cf204d-bd99-426c-b800-9c9125ae739c?page=2

    Enjoy

    Yahya Al-Din

    i was searching for something to reset the apps for months using 'WSRESET.EXE' and updating the windows to make the windows store apps to work and now i thank you that i don't have to hunt no more because you have found the solution which i have tried and it really works. THANK YOU AGAIN.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-12-09T15:05:51+00:00

    No it doesn't work for me

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