Saturday, October 19, 2013

“We weren’t able to connect to the store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the network connection timed out. Please wait a few minutes and try again.”

I was trying to connect to the Microsoft store to update my windows from 8.1 Preview to 8.1 and for the whole day i was getting:

“We weren’t able to connect to the store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the network connection timed out. Please wait a few minutes and try again.”

After some searching i came across this POST.

The extra step i had to do was click disconnect (even though I hit verify) and switch to a local account. Once I did that I went ahead and switched back to my Microsoft Account and everything worked. Even when i went to the local account it started working. 

Once again, Microsoft has the best error messages in the world. I'ts enough to drive you insane. I would never have known to look in that area as I've never even been to it before. 

I hope this helps someone.





2 comments:

  1. I also faced the same problem and tried everything but nothing works.Then I install a small piece of software called fiddler and it worked straightway.For more info read this - http://www.superpctricks.com/2013/11/windows-8-store-is-not-connecting-to.html

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  2. Very Interesting piece of software. Thank you for your comment.

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