My Firewall and Microsoft Store on Windows 11 is so broken, 0x8007045B 0x80073D02, no paint or caculator or notepad app, can't install any apps from the store or use winget

Cool. Thank you.

Every of those words are very useful.

I'm shall will note those down and have a deep look further more.

Yes a repair install usually fix almost everything, except some deep registry corruption.

But that usually would be the last solution.

Hello again -

This is a peer user forums where other users try to help you with your problems. Microsoft will not even see this here.

If you want to express your opinion on this you may be able to help Microsoft improve this product/experience by using the Feedback Hub in Start Menu, especially if you are comfortable with sharing relevant data and screen recordings. Microsoft developers DO read feedback from customers that comes in via the Feedback Hub, so that is a great way to share your thoughts on how to better serve you as a customer.

Be aware that gutting major features from Windows (any app that doesn't have an uninstall button, for example) will almost always cause unintended consequences. I'm just telling you this so you don't wonder where a problem came from, because they will come.

After 14 years daily in forums (during which I won the highest award in the tech field ten years in a row) what's become clear is that in Windows what matters most is the quality of the underlying install.

What proves this is there have been zero return problems I've seen by millions who have done the gold standard Clean Install here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki.... It is a better install than any amount of money can buy and one of life's great learning experiences because it teaches everything that works best.

I wish you only the best, and if I can help further I am here daily.
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Thanks for the suggestion.

But it's actually not the MS Store itself is broken. It is due to it is depending on a functional firewall. And the firewall is broken.

I've already posted a detailed solution fix in the 7th reply. And I wont't do anything like in place upgrade/install to fix the broken windows.

Nevertheless, the collected links to fix ms store in your reply is huge. This indicates how broken the ms store itself is.

Anyway, I've uninstalled MS Store in my repair process and I'm happy without it for now as my MS Paint, MS Caculator and MS Notepad is working again after uninstalling MS Store and fixed the firewall.

I also found winget is very good tools compared to MS Store GUI app.

I can use something like

winget install --id "9WZDNCRFJ3PZ" --exact --source msstore --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements

to install whatever apps from the cmd line without need to open the broken slow store GUI app.

Hello, I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

I'm sorry you're going through this, I understand the frustration.

Here are all possible fixes for the Windows 11 Store app:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

These are compiled from helping in hundreds of these cases, and I will tell you that while many of the different steps work, they lead up to a step which always works which is the Repair Install, which reinstalls Windows while keeping your files, apps and most settings in place, brings it up to the latest version and solves most problems.

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/fix-windows...

I understand you didn't want to do this, but it may save a lot of time. It is one of the most effective repairs we have for Windows 10. Either way you have all of the repairs that will fix the store.

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back, I will have other suggestions if necessary.

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Hi, thank you for your detailed reply, and I do apologize it didn't work on your end, but there is nothing to worry other advisors can take a look at it and will share some other ways that can fix the issue.