When you visit an App page in Windows Store (that was already installed on your computer) on Windows 10, you may notice this error: ‘This app encountered a problem. Please reinstall it to repair‘, when you click on ‘reinstall’ button, it shows the same error again after the installation completes. Let us see how to fix this.
READ: How to reinstall All Default Apps in Windows 10 at Once
Fixing Windows Store’s message ‘This app encountered a problem. Please reinstall it to repair’ in Windows 10
1. Open the Run dialog box and type ‘cmd’ without quotes, and press enter
2. Now run the command wsreset.exe
3. Now Store refreshes, click on ‘reinstall’ button, the app will then be reinstalled and ‘open’ button will appear.
SEE: Fix Store App doesn’t open in Windows 10 build 10130
Turn off or disable Automatic Updates for Store Apps in Windows 10
