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0x800704C6: How to Fix this Microsoft Store Error
Microsoft Store error 0x800704C6 is related to connection problems
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Error code 0x800704C6 restricts you from downloading, installing, and updating apps from the Microsoft Store. Some of our readers have also run into the 0x800704C6 error when trying to launch the apps downloaded from the store.
Why do I encounter the Microsoft Store error code 0x800704c6?
Speaking of the causes behind the Microsoft Store error 0x800704C6 code, one or more of the following may trigger the error code.
If you also run into the Microsoft Error code 0x800704c6 on your PC, we’ve got you covered.
How do I resolve the Microsoft Store error 0x800704C6?
1. Modify the Date and Time settings
Now restart your computer to make the changes effective and resolve the Microsoft error code 0x800704C6.
Several of our readers encountered the error code 0x800704C6 when they traveled across time zones. This happens because the system data and time conflict with the that at the Microsoft Store server.
2. Reset the Microsoft Store cache
Upon the command execution, Command Prompt will blink on the screen for a second, and the Microsoft Store cache reset process. Once the Store cache is reset, Microsoft Store will automatically launch on your computer. Now try downloading and or updating apps from the Microsoft Store, you will no longer run into the 0x800704C6 error.
The WSReset.exe command deletes the Microsoft Store cache, ruling out the corrupt store cache files behind the 0x800704C6 error when downloading apps.
3. Reinstall Microsoft Store
Reinstalling the Store on your computer will get rid of the damaged installation files if they were behind the 0x800704C6 error, which prevents you from downloading files from Microsoft Store.
4. Use the Windows Store troubleshooter
The built-in Microsoft Store Apps troubleshooter in Windows is configured to diagnose the problems associated with the Windows Store and the downloaded apps and presents the relevant fixes to tackle the same. Hopefully, it will resolve the underlying problems behind the 0x800704C6 Microsoft error code.
5. Clean boot your PC
When your PC restarts in clean boot mode, launch Microsoft Store and try downloading the apps on your Windows PC. If you do not encounter the 0x800704C6 error this time, it indicates that some third-party apps installed on your PC are interfering with app download from Microsoft Store.
You can follow this guide touninstall apps from Windows, whichever you think might be the culprit.
That’s it! We hope that the solutions mentioned in this guide proved effective in resolving the 0x800704C6 error code, and you can now download apps from the Microsoft Store.
You can refer to this guide if you keep running into theServer Stumbled error on Microsoft Storequite often.
If you have any other suggestions or questions for us, leave them in the comments section below, and we’ll be sure to get back to you.
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Loredana Harsana
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Loredana is a passionate writer with a keen interest in PC software and technology. She started off writing about mobile phones back when Samsung Galaxy S II was on top of the world and she fell in love with tech of all sorts.
Whenever she’s not at her work desk, you’ll find her enjoying refreshing tea flavors, spilling stories on paper, and listening to the radio.
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Loredana is a tech enthusiast who tackles mobility, privacy, and networking in easy-to follow guides for everyone.
