Solved All Downloaded Apps have an "X" on the tile need repair

mfaklis

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The default metro apps are OK. The store apps that I bought and downloaded from the Microsoft Store have an "X" in the lower right corner of their tile. When I click on the tile, I can go to the store and "repair" the App. How can I do this for all store apps at once, rather than one by one?
 

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Hello Mfaklis,

The X on an app tile usually indicates that the app is out of date and needs to be updated, and/or you need to install Windows Updates.

Windows 8 app tiles have an "x" in the lower right corner

How to Update Windows Store Apps in Windows 8 and 8.1

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/25343-windows-update-check-install-windows-8-a.html

To help make it easier: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/33837-store-check-updates-shortcut-create-windows-8-a.html

In addition (if you like), check to make sure that you have Windows set to automatically download and install updates for apps.
Hope this helps, :)
Shawn
 

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Thank you for the reply, however I make it a habit of searching the forum prior to posting, so I already read those postings and did not get the desired results. However if it takes days to see results then I'm just impatient.

The events that led up to this situation is that I replaced my motherboard and defined a RAID 1 mirror as my boot drive. I could not do a system image restore because the RAID 1 overhead makes the drive appear just a bit smaller and Windows 8.1 will not do a system image restore even if, as in my case, less than a third of the drive was in use. This left me with no alternative but to reinstall the OS from the original DVD.

After finishing with all of the Microsoft Updates, I went to the store, signed on with my Microsoft User ID and restores all of my store apps. A few days later while probing my store settings I saw two entries for this machine since I rebuilt it with the same name. I was unable to determine which entry was for the previous machine, so I deleted both machines. I requested all of my store apps to be installed on the current machine. Tiles for all of my store apps were there the next morning, all with the "x" in the lower right corner. If I clicked on the tile I am given the opportunity to go to the store and repair that store app. I found I could repair only a single selected store app at a time, and I have over 200 store apps. I could not find any forum posting here or on Microsoft's support forums that allowed me to "Repair" all of my store apps at once. I looked at the PowerShell commands for store apps, but couldn't identify a command for the repair. I hoped to get a list of installed store apps and pipe that to a command to repair each one. I'm hoping others may understand the PowerShell commands better than I or that there is a document procedure other than manually repairing them one by one.
 

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Great news. Thank you for posting back with your results. :)
 

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    Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    OCZ Series Gold OCZZ1000M 1000W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
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    Logitech wireless K800
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    Logitech MX Master 3
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    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
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    Internet Explorer 11
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    Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium
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    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
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