Windows 8.1 Store Not working

Now your confused me...

What should I do?

procmon

I noticed something odd about your Environment variables.  I don't know if it is just something that happens in this context or not but I think it would be worthwhile checking in a cmd window to see what you get from entering there:

    set  t

and

   set  l

E.g. unless the Store app overrides your standard variables with its own values (surely not**) I think you should try setting them back to normal.*  I don't know if there is a repair method for doing this but FWIW

here is what I have there:

set  LocalAppData=%UserProfile%\AppData\Local

set  TEMP=%LocalAppData%\Temp

set  TMP=%LocalAppData%\Temp

Obviously the first one is more critical than the others. 

*But depending on how long those have been set like that another concern would be what else would need to change?  This may be why a common suggestion is to clone your account in a new one.  Which reminds me, I have been intending on making sure that I showed you this thread.   Guess how it was resolved?   ; )

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_update/windows-81-store-error-0x80070002-comprehensive/2b0ed3e1-1835-4517-97dd-0a7abb6ef74c?page=3

HTH

Robert

**Edit:  I'm having second thoughts about this the Process was WWAHOST.exe so maybe it would do something like that?   Hmm...  Yes.  It's another bad guess.  There is other evidence that the Process Start event points to different LOCALAPPDATA= values so then different TEMP= and TMP= values would also be no surprise I suppose.   <voice actor="Emily Litella"> Never mind! </ voice>

I tried a local admin account and a local account, all the same though...

Have you disabled UAC?   Netplwiz.exe

Never mind.  I just saw the same thing.  I suspect it is a misleading message, e.g. just conveniently using one which would be appropriate in another scenario.  Probably the real problem is that there are bits and pieces which are needed to be running which are being suppressed by safe mode.

Sorry for the bad suggestion.

It would be nice though if we could tell whether there was even an attempt to contact the Store or whether this is just more hocus pocus.  E.g. that way we would know if there is really connectivity or if something else is broken.  Even nicer if it would tell us exactly what is broken.  E.g. in this case which specific piece isn't running.

I tried safe mode w/ networking, I got this.

I tried a local admin account and a local account, all the same though...

hi i did a netmon in safe mode,

here is the following:

netmon capture

a website instead of 1096 lines of spam.

I don't know what to do with this info but maybe you do.

also did a procmon in normal mode, not sure if it helps

procmon

its a csv so if you copy it and save it as csv you can open it in excel for a better view

thanks,

Ryan