
Step 2: From the right-click menu, select Windows PowerShell (Admin) to open the Windows Powershell window with administrator privileges. Step 1: Go to the bottom left side of your desktop and right-click on the Start button ( Windows icon). If no other method works, the only option now would be to reinstall the entire Microsoft App with administrator rights. Method 3: By Reinstalling the Microsoft Store App However, if the problem persists, follow the 3rd method. The apps should now to continue to update automatically. Once finished, it will automatically launch the Microsoft Store. It will clear all of the cache that might be preventing the updates. Step 3: In the Command Prompt ( admin mode) window, type the below command and hit Enter:

Step 2: Now, right-click on the result and select Run as administrator from the right-click menu to open the Command Prompt in admin mode. Step 1: Go to the Windows icon ( Start) on your desktop and in the search field type Command Prompt. Method 2: By Removing Microsoft Store Cache But if you are still facing the problem, try the 2nd method. I've read online that some people have had success just performing a "Clean" and then "Build" in VS2012, but that doesn't seem to work for me, instead I have to close the solution and delete my project's bin and obj folders.The Store apps should get updated automatically now on. I think it may be something to do with the way I regularly suspend and resume (instead of shutting down) my VM in between work stints causing some problems with the built-in development licensing that Microsoft now uses. This generally works well, except I seem to regularly run into this error when I first run my app. That does make my current pet project of playing around with Windows 8 App Store development slightly tricky, so I've turned to virtualising Windows 8 under VMWare Fusion to get my out of work C# fix.

Those of you who know me will know that I'm a bit of an Apple fan-boy, so anything running Windows natively has over the years experienced a rather unceremonious departure from my tech collection.
