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• Win10 Fall Creators Update Store problems appear to be solved

  Posted on October 21, 2017 at 07:48 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Well I’ll be…

  I bumped into Günter Born’s article this morning, saying that the “Something bad happened” bug has been fixed. Flipped over to my 1709 machine and, sure enough, as soon as I clicked on the “Store” icon, it updated itself.

  I now have a new icon in the taskbar – more colorful than the old one – and the store now identifies itself as “Microsoft Store.”

  That’s the difference between updating through Windows Update (where you can control things) and updating through the Store.

  Windows Patches/Security Something bad happened, Windows Store

• “Something bad happened” error in the Microsoft Store

  Posted on October 15, 2017 at 12:38 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  

  Those of you futzing around with the RTM version of Win10 Fall Creators Update may have encountered this message when opening the Microsoft (Windows) Store. Looks like it’s caused by using an Office 365 Microsoft account to log in to Win10 FCU, and installing a (forced) Photos update called Photos Add-On. Ed Bott has a good rundown on ZDNet.

  More than 70 percent of the early reviews have given the mystery add-on a 1 star rating, with reviewers adding comments like these:

  • Installed without permission
    I didn’t ask for this, I didn’t approve this, I didn’t even know you were planning on installing this. When will you get it that people don’t want YOU to decide what gets installed on MY computer. Stop it already.

  • Forced install
    Not cool, MS.

  • Don’t install without asking
    I have no idea what this even does. Why do I have it and why didn’t I have a choice?

  The bogus “Something bad happened” note was reported by Ed on Oct 12, with details in this Twitter thread between Ed, Richard Hay and Tero Alhonen. Our own @PKCano reported the same error message earlier today.

  Can anybody pin down the exact sequence of events that causes “Something bad happened”? It’s a world-class error message.

  Uncategorized Something bad happened