Store App Update UI notification broken, no Installing apps screen

There is issue with Store app and application updates. I select App Updates in Store and it founds an application update, then press Install. The old behavior was that it notified Pending, Downloading, Installing statuses for individual updated app(s). Last week it changed. It no longer displays Installing apps screen but remains on previous screen with "waiting" animated dots only (while application updates runs in background correctly) and never finishes. The update process works but the Store app UI notification is broken.

I see such behavior on multiple Windows 8.1 machines so I suspect the Microsoft Store change might have caused it. Installing or reinstalling app works as expected, the update is broken only.






  • Edited by Petr Vones Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:22 AM
July 22nd, 2015 7:04am

Hi Petr Vones,

Have you got any error messages or are there any error messages recorded in the Event Viewer (Event Viewer\Windows Logs\Applications, System or ApplicationsEvent Viewer\Applications and Services Logs\Microsoft\Windows\AppXDeployment-Server)?
Please take the following steps to have a fix:
If there is any antivirus software installed, please turn them off temporarily to have a check.
Step 1 :
Run the  Apps troubleshooter to have a fix.
Step 2 :If the issue persists , re-register the Store App with the following code. To do this:
open an administrator command line and then input the command
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\WinStore\AppxManifest.XML
Step 3:
Clear the cache by running the WSreset.exe.
Considering updating the Store apps is through the Windows Update, we also could try to run the built-in windows update troubleshoot tool to have a diagnostic.
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Troubleshooting\All Categories\Windows Update

Best regards

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July 23rd, 2015 3:28am

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