Sunday 27 October 2013

Error 0x80073CFF trying to install apps from Windows 8.1 store

Yesterday, I finally go round to trying to update the apps on my wife’s computer, and found that the Windows Phone app wouldn’t update, and returned the error

0x80073CFF (ERROR_INSTALL_POLICY_FAILURE)

Looking that up, it says that you need to have a developer license.

That’s a bit odd, because, that app isn’t being sideloaded, it’s being loaded from the store.

However, I hadn’t debugged on her machine for awhile, and as a result, it transpires that my developer license had expired.  Acquiring a new license magically fixed the problem.

It appears that removing the license might also have fixed the job.

You can do that with powershell by using this command (source http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh974578.aspx)

C:\PS> Unregister-WindowsDeveloperLicense

3 comments:

  1. Need to have this bumped - other google returns aren't helpful, this solved my mysterious inability to install from the Windows Store!
    11/22/2013

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  2. This fixed my issue as well.

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  3. Aquiring a developer licence also solve my issue - the "People Calendar and Mail" app would not install properly in Windows 10 Technical Preview.

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