Microsoft Store inoperable

[Masamune3210]

Preflight Checklist

• [ ] Running microsoft-edge:https://google.com redirects successfully
• [ ] Microsoft Edge is selected in any "How do you want to open this?" box

Install Type

New Install

Install Mode

Unsure

Steps to reproduce

1. Enable Europe Mode
2. Realize that the Microsoft Store and anything involving it, including winget no longer works
3. Manually revert the settings in the registry

✔️ Expected Behavior

For there to be a warning stating that Store might break

❌ Actual Behavior

No such warning present, lots of exasperated sighs and copy/paste sessions

Microsoft Windows version

22H2

Other Software

No response

[rcmaehl]

I saw a few issues from setting another region that resolved after a restart/reboot once the registry was set which is why I added the warning. Can you advise if you had rebooted after the registry change?

[Masamune3210]

Yes, rebooted twice, nothing changed and on top of the store not working, edge still wasn't uninstallable. that might have been because I didn't try vivetool yet, but I know the store and winget issues were still present

[rcmaehl]

Investigating 👍

[davwheat]

This happened for me yesterday, then after a couple of reboots and leaving the store open, it told me it had to restart the Store app to update my region, after which it worked again.

[sovy666]

This happened for me yesterday, then after a couple of reboots and leaving the store open, it told me it had to restart the Store app to update my region, after which it worked again.

Following the previous comment, I changed the geographic area from Windows Settings and now the Store works again.

[chip33]

How can I completely revert the settings for Europe mode back to how they were before the change? I was expecting to see a Revert button or something similar after the reboot but despite changing my 'Country or region' settings in Windows back to normal and rebooting, MSEdgeRedirect still shows Default region ID as DE.

[rcmaehl]

How can I completely revert the settings for Europe mode back to how they were before the change? I was expecting to see a Revert button or something similar after the reboot but despite changing my 'Country or region' settings in Windows back to normal and rebooting, MSEdgeRedirect still shows Default region ID as DE.

In %localappdata%\MSEdgeRedirect\logs\Install.log the oldest entry should have your original values

In RegEdit set:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\DeviceRegion\DeviceRegion HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\Geo\Name HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\International\Geo\Nation HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Geo\Name HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\Geo\Nation

To their previous values.

I'll throw up a script to revert it in the assets folder within the next couple days