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Hello,
I remember I installed Avast Free 2014, then maybe afterwards it caused my apps to show those arrow down signs and not be 'live'. Is it really because of Avast Antivirus?
The Apps Troubleshooter cannot help me.
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I had installed Windows 8.1 and had this problem.
Simply uninstalled and then re-installed each one and now the problem is gone.
THIS is the solution to the problem.
You have to manually delete and reinstall each and every app that doesnt't update on its own. Only Microsoft apps show this problem, all the other ones do not need to be reinstalled.
Please note that this problem is NOT related, in any way, with Avast.
It's not Avast. The crazy apps allow thing locked up my computer good - no tiles worked and there were multiple DCOM and kernel errors.
NEWS - the down arrow is only on Windows 8.1 native apps, check out the screen shots on the previous page.
Maybe they are MS easter eggs.
Wow that's cool. after 15 minutes a list of apps comes up and they were already allowed through the Firewall.
Rough update with 8.1 - bugs everywhere
The instructions on setting the Firewall are incorrect. There is no setting that will simply set the Firewall to allow updates. This behavior just occurred today. Does it occur to Microsoft that there is some undocumented feature or bug here?
I took Avast off as well, rebooted and the problem still exists.
Is that a safe way to run my computer. Not one bit. Anyone without a virus checker is wide open to infections.
Try to remove few apps manually and then download them from the store, I was doing that after removing avast and then in the middle of doing this the store suddenly said that I had 18 updates available. After that I was able to update them all through store.
