{"id":286,"date":"2013-03-12T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wordpress\/?p=286"},"modified":"2015-01-09T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:47:38","slug":"windows-8-app-updates-stuck-on-pending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Windows 8 app updates stuck on Pending"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"\" class=\"ssag-opads-main     \" ><\/div><h3><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 13px;\">I had an issue today where Windows 8 App updates were stuck on \u201cPending\u201d status. This was for the Microsoft apps like Mail, Calendar, Messenger, Games, Maps etc. To workaround this problem use the following from a command prompt running as administrator.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"highlighter_271443\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>1<\/code><\/td>\n<td><code>net stop wuauserv<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>2<\/code><\/td>\n<td><code>rename c:windowsSoftwareDistribution softwaredistribution.old<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><code>3<\/code><\/td>\n<td><code>net start wuauserv <\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an issue today where Windows 8 App updates were stuck on \u201cPending\u201d status. This was for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tinone71.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}