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Every time that I go to download a game from the xbox app or microsoft store that is over 1GB, the xbox app/microsoft store first tries to download Visual C++ 2015 UWP Desktop Runtime Package first. The issue is that the microsoft store page for Visual C++ 2015 UWP Desktop Runtime Package appears to be bugged, and I cannot download it. I have tried canceling the downloads and downloading just the package by itself and it does not work. I cannot find the page online to download it manually either. How do I download Visual C++ 2015 UWP Desktop Runtime Package manually, or how do I work around needing it to download larger games. This is a new issue, it was not a problem a month ago.
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THIS!!! This thread had some great information and it ended up fixing it for me. I followed BuriedGiant's advice on how to fix it and it ended up installing and everything seems to be working fine now. I have tried copying and pasting what instructions he / she had posted but this page freezes every time I try. I recommend everyone having this same issue to go read that thread and follow the steps listed there. No thanks to anyone from Microsoft helping. What a joke!
Had the same issue last night, had to do a windows reset to fix it, since my xbox app and ms store kept crashing (even after resets etc).
Disabled the insider program and hope it does not happen again.
Windows reinstall was a huge pain. and i hope i dont have to do that again anytime soon.
yea, im pretty sure it had something to do with the insider program or the sequence that i did it in. cheers, im glad i was able to help. i really wanted to play destiny and my update broke, i spent about 3 hours last night troubleshooting
Thanks. The link doesn't appear to work unfortunately.
Please consider this thread for further information/discussions/etc please:
We need all the traction we can get to make Microsoft acknowledge the issue!
