Same issue here. Microsoft Store refuses to pause app updates because it claims that I do not have administrator privileges, even though I am using a normal personal Microsoft account and my Windows user is an administrator/member of the local Administrators group.
This is not a work, school or organization-managed PC.
SYSTEM
Windows 11 Pro Version: 25H2 OS build: 26200.9457 Windows Feature Experience Pack: 1000.26100.360.0 Latest clean installation/reset: 12 September 2026
The issue was already present on previous recent 25H2 builds. I cannot say exactly which build first introduced it, so I do not want to attribute it to a specific cumulative update without evidence.
MAIN MICROSOFT STORE ISSUE
Microsoft Store > Settings > App updates > Pause
Result:
Can't pause updates
You need administrator privileges to pause updates on this device.
The corresponding Store diagnostic entry is:
Access denied setting pause end time of auto update in
"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InstallService\State".
Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException
Function: PauseAutoUpdateAsync
Source: .\src\Shell\WinStore.DesktopExtension\Methods\DesktopExtensionMethods.cs (224)
Checking for updates manually still works in the Store UI, but doing so can log:
Failed to check for updates.
Exception Details: System.UnauthorizedAccessException
Function: CheckForUpdates
Source: .\src\Shell\WinStore.App.Acquisition\Acquisition\InstallerRetriever.cs (227)
This is reproducible after multiple clean Windows 11 25H2 installations/resets and has occurred on a clean installation before applying my normal application/system configuration.
This is why I do not think this is simply caused by a normal user-level Store setting.
WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN TESTED
This PC has already gone through extensive troubleshooting for the related Microsoft-account / Store / CloudStore / Crypto problems, including:
- Multiple Windows clean installations, including offline/clean installation testing
- Full disk wipes / clean Windows installations
- Multiple PC resets
- Local-account testing
- Microsoft-account removal/unlinking and reconnecting
- Microsoft account/device cleanup
- Password/passkey removal and reconfiguration
- Windows Hello/PIN resets
- TPM clears/resets through Windows and BIOS
- BIOS resets
- BIOS flashing/downflashing and different BIOS versions/settings
- Secure Boot / TPM configuration testing
- Store resets
- Repeated repair attempts for the affected Windows components
None of this has permanently resolved the recurring Store/CloudStore/LiveID/Crypto problems.
Tested also any Windows-setting, using only MS-Apps (Outlook, Edge, Store-apps, Onedrive).
Also Onedrive has a lot of bugs/installation issues after every Windows clean install, especially when Office-installation downrolls Onedrive to 23.X on a 25.X or 26.X Onedrive pre-installed device and makes sync crash so have to reinstall Onedrive from their website in any single new Windows-install on Pro 25H2.
I am therefore not looking for another generic wsreset, reinstall, TPM-clear or Windows-reset suggestion.
OTHER STORE DIAGNOSTICS
Opening or using Microsoft Store also produces recurring Store/InstallService/Store-SDK diagnostics such as:
Error while reading DirectDownloadReplacementSettings from OneSettings cache,
value will remain empty
Error: Unknown HResult
Error code: 0xEFFFFFFF
Function: DoInitializeOneSettingsConfiguration
Source: onecoreuap\enduser\winstore\installservice\lib\settings.cpp (1360)
Failure detected
Error: Access Denied
Source:
onecoreuap\enduser\winstore\installservice\lib\RegHelpers.h (198)
Failure detected
Error: Unknown HResult
Error code: 0x80240024
Source:
onecoreuap\enduser\winstore\installservice\libqueue2\uwainstallworkbridge.cpp (569)
Store licensing / collection operations also repeatedly log:
0x80072EE7
0x801901AD
Examples:
Function:
Windows::Services::Store::Internal::GetNextUserCollection::GetNextAsync
Source:
onecoreuap\enduser\winstore\licensing\winrt\lib\windows\getnextusercollection.cpp (91)
Function:
GetHttpResponse
Source:
onecoreuap\enduser\winstore\licensing\winrt\lib\iaputils.cpp (174)
Function:
Windows::Services::Store::Internal::StoreContextServer::GetUserCollection
Source:
onecoreuap\enduser\winstore\licensing\winrt\lib\windows\storecontextserver.cpp (1472)
Function:
Windows::Services::Store::GetUserCollectionOperation::DoWork
Source:
onecoreuap\enduser\winstore\licensing\winrt\lib\getusercollectionoperation.cpp (94)
Other Store errors include:
TaskScheduler.UnobservedTaskException:
Data request returned with null data:
https://cdn.storeedgefd.dsx.mp.microsoft.com/assets/f1/f5/f1f59879-679a-43c6-b17b-f8068103574f.zip?n=PersonalizeHeaderModule-c7d3dc6e.zip
Exception Details:
WinStore.DataModel.DataUnavailableException
The Items collection in the mosaicList was null
Error code: 0x80000000
Function: ValidateCollection
Source: .\src\Core\WinStore.Core\DataModel\DataModelHelper.cs (315)
Call to AllowSetForegroundWindow failed.
Install may not be able to bring its window to the foreground.
Exception Details: System.UnauthorizedAccessException
Function: Create
Source: .\src\Core\WinStore.Core\Acquisition\PackageManager\WpmInstallerShim.cs (87)
RELATED CLOUDSTORE / MICROSOFT-ACCOUNT ERRORS
The Store problem is not the only recurring access/identity-related failure on these installations.
Examples from CloudStore / Microsoft-account components include:
Error: 0x80630109
and:
Cannot set MicrosoftDevice to true:
Connection attempt failed.
WebCredentials CloudStore has also logged:
Downloading
default$windows.data.security.vault.webcredentials$webcredentialscloudstore
failed with error code:
0x80040105
LiveID/NGC-related diagnostics have included:
RPC call for WLIDAcquireTokensWithNGC returned error code:
0x8