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
    2014-02-05T18:53:59+00:00

    OMG - THANK YOU!  You don't know how many things I've tried to get my store working again...this finally did it!  For anyone (like me) who has no idea what Ctrl X means - just drag your mouse to the top right of the screen and click search then type powershell and run the program from there and type in exactly what he wrote out.  Yay!

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-11T15:13:36+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

    Thank you sir very much :). Your one step solution worked to the point.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-31T07:07:58+00:00

    Yahya!!!! You are AMAZING!!!! So if you're App Store isn't working, PLEASE...PLEASE follow Yahya's instructions! Only thing is you want to hit Windows Button + "R" and then copy and past the following:

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

    Yahya's original instructions were a bit confusing....

    Thnaks for clearing the procedure up.... awesoem fix for real. You have done more good in your life with this discovery that yu will ever know@@

    Was suffering so much with these stupid Store malfunctions.

    Not anymore!

    Kudos!

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-05-22T15:48:21+00:00

    I ran this command and it allowed me to connect to the Windows Store, however when I tried to run the 13 updates that I had pending, they all received the 0x80070002 error.

    I am in the process of running these instructions to try and correct the 0x80070002 error - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947821

    I was referred to this article by this post which I originally started because I was not able to run any of my modern apps. - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-winapps/modern-apps-will-not-open-in-windows-8-pro/491bb0f4-5438-46bd-aa5e-527e875741e3

    At this point I am still not able to run any of my modern apps

    Gary

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