Perhaps for many people this comes to be a great need, because on their personal computer they will never try to make any kind of purchase from this Windows Store, which is why the deactivation of this service may be one of the most requested alternatives.
Of course, for a few other people, deactivating the service Windows Store may be something completely unheard of, since you always want to have this service of Windows Store integrated as one of the Windows 8 tiles, because you never know the moment in which we want to acquire some type of application or useful tool for our work or entertainment.
Disable the Windows Store service
What will actually be proposed in this article is to the disabling of the service Windows Store, which does not mean that it will be completely uninstalled; When disabling it, the tile of this service would not disappear either, and it can be re-enabled later by following the same procedure that we will indicate below, but with a small variation at the end, which we will indicate as we explain it:
- First we must start our session Windows 8.
- La Starting screen It is the first image we will have.
- We click on the tile Desktop located towards the lower left.
- Once on the desktop, we perform the WIN + R key combination.
- Our command execution window will appear.
- In the space shown there we describe gpedit.msc
- We will see the «Local Group Policy Editor«.
- Now we will head towards «User Settings«.
- From this group we will choose «Administrative Templates«.
- Now we will go to «Windows components«.
- From the results on the right side we choose «Our shop«
- Of the 2 options shown here, we choose the one that says «Deactivate the Store App«.
- We click on this option with the right button of our mouse and choose «Edit«.
With these simple steps that we have indicated, we will find a window in which the option «Not configured«, Which means that no action has been taken for the Windows Store; all we need to do is activate the 2nd box, that is, the one corresponding to «Enabled«. Later and to finish the process, we only need to click on «Apply»And later in«Accept«.
Reverse the process to recover to Windows Store
Just to complement the idea that we had commented previously, with the application of Windows Store uninhabited, if we go to your tile we will receive a message informing us that Windows Store it is not available on the computer.
To re-enable and continue using Windows Store in our team, we only have to return to the option «Not configured»That we obtained in the last part of the process, which implies that we must follow the same procedure from the beginning; In order to verify that the store is already enabled, we must go to its respective tile and click on it, with which we will see that the store opens showing us all the applications present there to be downloaded at any time.
As final considerations we could justify the process of disabling the application of Windows Store, something that could happen if the personal computer is in charge of the little ones at home; Parents could even disable the application so that their children will not make some kind of accidental purchase, a precaution to take if the store is already configured with our credit card.
It is worth mentioning that this procedure can be executed both on personal computers with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows RT or Windows Pro, operating systems that have this application (tiles) on the Start Screen; we should also mention that the reader can check the same procedure in Windows 7, steps that will be valid until the moment of finding the option "Store", environment and application that logically cannot be present in this version of the operating system since it is exclusive to Windows 8 onwards.
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