I don't understand why I've never had problems with this store, despite multiple hundred-gig game download / installs.
Most of the issues with the store are caused by people running software that breaks it, like many of the "privacy" tools/scripts for the OS; but Microsoft takes the blame. It couldn't possibly be something that they did which broke things irreversibly.
Of course that's not to say
all the problems are caused by that, but I'd be very surprised if there's many other reasons for the Store to stop working right after a clean install of the OS.
Once thing that it doesn't seem to like - or at least used to have issues with - is when people change the Microsoft Account associated with the user account on the PC, or frequently signing out and switching accounts on the store, rather than using separate accounts in Windows instead. I've seen people report issues with licenses not being managed correctly, and having to reinstall apps/games as a result of that.
I abandoned my P.C 2.5yrs ago which would need fixing and upgrading but now I am not thinking of going back as I keep hearing bad things about Windows 10 all the time, if I ever do go back to a P.C I'll use my Windows 7 till I can't anymore.
Windows 10 is generally fine for most people. The people having issues are going to be the loudest by far.
There's probably not much preventing it, but it would be really stupid to continue using Windows 7 past its end of life on 2020-01-14.
I believe upgrades to 10 still work when using a Windows 7 key.
Windows Store errors are also often so complex and low level that telephone support just doesn't stand a chance of fixing them. I remember being on chat support for 3 hours trying to get Gears 4 to download and they just couldn't help me in the end and effectively gave up. A couple of Feature updates later it just magically started working again.
For what it's worth, Microsoft built tools into the OS for it to self-repair many things that users had done which would break access to Windows updates or the Store, so that's probably why it suddenly started working again. I think that was a couple of versions back now. (look for many complaints of "Windows started updating itself again!" etc.)
[…] Spotify runs at 24 fps when windowered GSYNC is enabled.
I guess all this can be remedied somehow, but I never have to do this with normal win32 apps.
I have a larger list of Win32 apps that have this issue than UWP apps. Some of them drop the refresh rate to single digits until the mouse cursor is moved.
There are two solutions: disabling windowed-mode G-Sync and enabling it on a per-game basis via NVIDIA Profile Inspector, or creating a profile that disallows G-Sync in those applications.
It is a pain to add UWP apps to a profile via NVIDIA Profile Inspector though.
Here's what you need to fix Spotify:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<ArrayOfProfile>
<Profile>
<ProfileName>_DISALLOW_GSYNC</ProfileName>
<Executeables>
<string>spotifyab.spotifymusic_zpdnekdrzrea0</string>
</Executeables>
<Settings>
<ProfileSetting>
<SettingNameInfo>G-SYNC</SettingNameInfo>
<SettingID>279476652</SettingID>
<SettingValue>2</SettingValue>
</ProfileSetting>
<ProfileSetting>
<SettingNameInfo>G-SYNC</SettingNameInfo>
<SettingID>279476687</SettingID>
<SettingValue>2</SettingValue>
</ProfileSetting>
</Settings>
</Profile>
</ArrayOfProfile>
Save that as a ".NIP" file and import it with Profile Inspector. It should be fixed after restarting Spotify.
