Microsoft games are "currently not available in your account"

Anonymous
2017-07-07T13:41:30+00:00

I've been playing Solitare, Mahjong, Minesweeper, Taptiles, Jigsaw, and Sudoku daily for a long time. Starting yesterday afternoon with Minesweeper, I'm getting a "currently not available in your account" error from some of them. I tried uninstalling Minesweeper and now I cannot re-download for the same reason (it errors when trying to acquire the license from the Windows store). Today, Mahjong and Jigsaw started with the same behavior. As of right now, the only games that will load are Solitare, Taptiles and Sudoku. Xbox app loads fine. The store is able to download and install other apps and games without a problem. Everything else appears to be working fine.

This is on a first generation Surface Book (i5/256/dGPU), all current updates installed (I'm on the creator's update build of Win10). I have a separate desktop PC I have yet to check to see if the problem exists there, too.

I have tried wsreset and a reboot, but I refuse to re-register the store via command line. The last time I tried that, my store ended up so broken I had to do a total OS refresh and reinstall all my software. I don't have time for that right now.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-07-09T10:27:05+00:00

    Hi All -

    Thank you for your patience.

    We were able to check the issue and we managed to know the root cause.

    Root Cause 1: Windows Store Data Base (SoftwareDistribution) not being configured

    Root Cause 2: User Account Profile (Usually with MS account signed in with the account)

    Here is a workaround:

    METHOD 1:

    1- Go to Settings> Account> Sign in With a local account instead and follow the prompt to finish setting up your local account then sign out to your PC.

    2- Sign in with your local account> Please open Notepad and copy and paste the logs. Save as reset.bat Right click the batch file and choose Run as administrator.

    @ECHO OFF

    CD %windir%\system32

    ECHO Stopping Services

    net stop bits

    net stop wuauserv

    net stop cryptsvc

    ECHO Delete Downloaded Updates

    DEL "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr*.dat"

    ECHO Clear Update Cache

    REN %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old REN %systemroot%\system32\catroot2 catroot2.old MKDIR %systemroot%\system32\catroot2

    ECHO Reset BITS

    sc config BITS binPath= "C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs" DisplayName= "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" depend= Rpcss/EventSystem start= auto obj= "LocalSystem" password= ""

    sc description BITS "Transfers files in the background using idle network bandwidth. If the service is disabled, then any applications that depend on BITS, such as Windows Update or MSN Explorer, will be unable to automatically download programs and other information."

    sc privs BITS SeCreateGlobalPrivilege/SeImpersonatePrivilege/SeTcbPrivilege/SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege/SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege

    sc sdset BITS D:(A;CI;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;IU)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;SU)S:(AU;SAFA;WDWO;;;BA)

    sc sidtype BITS UNRESTRICTED

    ECHO Reset Windows Update

    sc config wuauserv binPath= "C:\Windows\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs" DisplayName= "Windows Update" depend= Rpcss start= auto obj= "LocalSystem" password= ""

    sc privs wuauserv SeAuditPrivilege/SeCreateGlobalPrivilege/SeCreatePageFilePrivilege/SeTcbPrivilege/SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege/SeImpersonatePrivilege/SeIncreaseQuotaPrivilege/SeShutdownPrivilege

    sc sdset wuauserv D:(A;;CCLCSWRPLORC;;;AU)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;SY)S:(AU;FA;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOSDRCWDWO;;;WD)

    sc sidtype wuauserv UNRESTRICTED

    ECHO Reset Cryptographic Services

    sc config CryptSvc binPath= "C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService" DisplayName= "Cryptographic Services" depend= Rpcss start= auto obj= "NT Authority\NetworkService" password= ""

    sc privs CryptSvc SeChangeNotifyPrivilege/SeCreateGlobalPrivilege/SeImpersonatePrivilege

    sc sdset CryptSvc D:(A;;CCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRRC;;;SY)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;BA)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;IU)(A;;CCLCSWLOCRRC;;;SU)S:(AU;FA;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOCRSDRCWDWO;;;WD)

    sc sidtype CryptSvc UNRESTRICTED

    ECHO Reset WMI Repository

    net stop winmgmt

    REN %systemroot%\system32\wbem\Repository Repository.old

    ECHO Register Components

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i atl.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i urlmon.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i mshtml.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i shdocvw.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i browseui.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i jscript.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i vbscript.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i scrrun.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i msxml.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i msxml6.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i msxml3.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i actxprxy.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i softpub.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wintrust.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i dssenh.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i gpkcsp.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i rsaenh.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i sccbase.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i slbcsp.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i cryptdlg.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i oleaut32.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i ole32.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i shell32.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i initpki.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wuapi.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wuaueng.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wuaueng1.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wucltui.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wups.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wups2.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wuweb.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i qmgr.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i qmgrprxy.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wucltux.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i muweb.dll

    REGSVR32.EXE /u /s /i wuwebv.dll

    BitsAdmin /RESET /allusers

    ECHO Start Services

    net start wuauserv

    net start cryptsvc

    net start bits

    MSIEXEC /unregister

    MSIEXEC /regserver

    REGSVR32 /u /s /i MSI.dll

    ECHO Finishing Up

    shutdown -r -t 0

    3- Go to Settings> Account> Sign in With a Microsoft account and follow the prompt to finish setting up your Microsoft Account.

    4- Try again to download and launch your games

    METHOD 2

    1- Press Windows key + R on your keyboard to open Run window

    2- In the Run window, type netplwiz then hit enter and the user account box should appear

    3- In the user account box, click "Add" then enter a username like New and do not put any password

    4- Click "Next" and "Finish"

    5- In the user account box, click on the new user that you created and then click "Properties"

    6- Click "Group Membership" tab

    7- Click "Administrators' to make the new user as admin

    8- Click "Apply" and "Ok"

    9- Sign in with the new user account and try to download your game and launch them.

    Regards,

    Meta.Cosmos

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-07-09T10:14:20+00:00

    Hi Charles-

    Glad to know that you were able to install your Jigsaw.

    Please do click on "Solved my Problem" if helpful.

    Regards,

    Meta.Cosmos

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-07-09T09:09:41+00:00

    Do not do this. Microsoft Edge now unusable. Will not allow me to sign in to my account, show favorites, import favorites and will not allow me to close it. I think it is related to the minesweeper problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-07-09T07:52:55+00:00

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-07-09T03:05:32+00:00

    I followed these instructions and was able to download Jigsaw (I had uninstalled in attempt to correct original problem) and reinstall.  Easily recovered and downloaded my collection also.

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