And of course that error code just means "there was an issue with the store" WOW THANKS SO MUCH DETAIL TO GO OFF OF
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Technically the numerical code still gives you a precise search key to find other people discussing the same issue.
... You know, as would be useful for a serious operating system where online support doesn't mean trawling the bowels of Reddit praying somebody's had the same issue and found a reproducible solution.
Hello I'm a 12 year Microsoft MVP and Certified independent advisor here to help.
Please type "CMD" into the start menu then type "ckdsk /f /r"
If this solved your issue please click on "Accept as solution"!
Unrealistic. Every repair on Windows starts with DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth followed by sfc /scannow
...wait. no... That's the correct way. The MS MVP in the forum always mix it up and tell you to run them in reverse...
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The one time I used that official forum I did my due diligence and laid out what I ended up doing to solve my problem as well as responding to the other person with a similar one. I am not DenverCoder9.
"Solved it, I will DM you the solution."
This is the only part I despise of forum culture like MDL or the likes.
If you have a solution, or even better: if you have written software or a guide for this, please just publish it online.
What I hate is when I find a solution for some old post but it's locked because "you should just make a new question" well FUCK YOU BECAUSE SEARCH ENGINES GO THERE AND I HAVE THE ANSWER AND I WANT TO HELP PEOPLE! BUT FUCK ME I GUESS 😭
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I have copied down and manually typed out numbers like that many times when using windows. I'm not sure it ever once helped me in the slightest.
Tends to be as helpful as those windows saying "We are looking for a solution to your problem online"
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"Question: I am getting error with code 0xblahblahblah. How to fix?"
"Deleted response"
Reply 1: "Youre a life saver mate, thank you."
Reply 2: "I would kiss you if you were here"
Reply 3: "Absolute legend, this fix is so obvious, thank you for pointing it out!"
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And if you look up tech support on this, it's all unrelated nonsense tips. Even in the official sources it doesn't go much beyond turn it off/on, reset the settings, reinstall the app or reinstall the OS. While this might "solve" stuff, it doesn't fix the core issue and the issue might re-occur without a fix. Why go through all the trouble of wiping and reinstalling, if there is often a very focused and simple fix that truly solves the issue. But Microsoft has started making it harder for users to have ownership over their systems for years now. Keep your users dumb, then you can control them.
Steps to reproduce
Open Terminal
Expected Behavior
It would be pretty nice, if the terminal would open
For what it's worth, only one of my two systems is experiencing this issue.
The one with the issue is running windows 11, and the working system is running Linux.
Priceless.
LMAO the next action taken after that comment:
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Its a work device so I'm signed in like a good little corporate peon, still they manage to fuck it up.
Then your IT has blocked use of the terminal and store for your account.
Which makes sense for regular users to reduce the chance of fuck-ups and rise of a shadow IT.
This isn't a Microsoft issue (except for the slightly unspecific error message).
Its possible the IT admin misconfigured, but blocking the terminal or the store would not make sense at this company since most employees need them on a daily basis.
Update: most definitely a microsoft issue https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/19764
Never! Couldn’t possibly be M$’s fault! It’s definitely somehow your IT department!
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Beautiful bug report
Expected Behaviour:
It would be pretty nice, if the terminal would open
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For anyone who's interested, Microsoft have provided an update that's about as helpful as you might have expected, right at the top of the Github issue where this has been reported.
! Note
What we Know
- There is an issue impacting all store applications on Windows as of 2026-01-21.
- There have been some reports that choosing to Repair the Terminal application has restored it to working order.
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"Get help with this"
The real joke.
I had a similar error with a different application. Clicking "Get help with this" just opened the Documents folder in Explorer.
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Moments like this are why people get frustrated—tools should get out of the way, not add extra hoops. Everyone’s setup works… until it suddenly doesn’t.
You see, the problem is, that you try to open the Terminal on Windows Home or Pro. Personal use doesn't include advanced features like Terminal access. Please upgrade to a Windows Enterprise License to continue to be able to use the Terminal.
Alternatively you may try using Copilot to run commands and change system settings in a text based environment.
^/s^
At this point I'm not even sure this truly is sarcasm
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99% of people just use their OS as a browser frontend. They don't care about freedom, privacy, security, etc. They will just use whatever OS comes pre-installed. Thats why Linux's greatest success on the desktop/laptop market as been ChromeOS. Not because it's any better than Pop_OS!, Debian, etc. It's literally just that ChromeOS comes preinstalled.
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Always remember: Your OS should do nothing more than provide a GUI for you to access apps and run apps. Anything else is not necessary.
From a non-technical user's pov kinda true.
But not true at all when you enumerate the actual responsibilities of an OS.
The OS shouldn't even do that. That's the job of the display manager and desktop environment
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i was about to suggest using winget to reinstall it but then i realized that would require a functional terminal to accomplish, something i had taken for granted
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It sucks. But I'm pretty sure there's some kind of bug going on in win 11 right now. I was even getting that earlier today when trying to open snipping tool after it was already open. I think they just borked some store check code somewhere.
I think they just borked some store check code somewhere.
The fact that this is even possible just demonstrates how broken Windows is fundamentally.
It’s probably all the vibe coding they do internally nowadays
Microsoft: “Let’s fire our QA teams. We’ll force our dev team to use AI in coding. Then we’ll have the public test it.”
Also Microsoft:
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The Microsoft Store is impressively bad. So many random errors that don't give any helpful information that are impossible to fix.
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I recently tried to install librewolf onto a W11 machine from the windows store. It won’t even launch that. Not even an error or nothing just gone.
don't use the windows store, when not required you can never know what else they package into your apps. google and amazon's android app stores do this, the latter is even open about adding tracking libs to apps
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Don't sign into Windows with an online account. You can still do offline only accounts and it fixes this problem. The Microsoft Store still works too but IDK why you'd use that.
What you already paid money for your OS? Fuck that. Help us sell your data for basic functionality too.
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