Store app not working Unpin the Store app ^ Note that, if the computer doesn’t have Internet access, the Store app might not work and just show an empty blue screen for a while before it crashes without any further message. If you don’t want your users to check with your IT for this purpose, you need to take some extra measures.
Like before, users are encouraged to bother system administrators to allow access to the Store app so that they can install computer games and social media apps. In Windows 10, it is “The store app is blocked ” in Windows 8.1, it was “Windows Store isn’t available on this PC.” The new message is more suitable because this policy doesn’t remove the Store app it just disables it. The message users receive when they then click the Store app differs a little from Windows 8.1. However, I tried the Turn off the Store application policy on a Windows 10 machine and it worked just fine. You also won’t find the policies in a Windows 10 Group Policy editor. Note that the Store policy definitions are not included in the new Windows 10 ADMX templates. The ADMX template belongs in the root of the PolicyDefinitions folder you can find the correct ADML file for your language in one of the language folders. If you just want to add new Store policy definitions, you only have to copy WinStoreUI.ADMX and WinStoreUI.ADML. You can overwrite the old ADMX and ADML files with the new ones. Store Group Policy missing on Windows Server 2012 R2įrom there, you can copy the templates to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions or to your Group Policy Central Store. The ADMX templates are packed into an MSI file that will copy the new policy definitions to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows8.1-Update\PolicyDefinitions when you execute it.
If you don’t see the Store policy folder, for instance on a Windows Server 2012 R2 computer, you first have to download the Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 8.1 Update and Windows Server 2012 R2 Update.