{"id":10696,"date":"2018-05-15T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T07:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2018-05-24T20:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:44:19","slug":"an-invalid-name-request-was-made-an-ugly-error-from-the-windows-10-app-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/10696-an-invalid-name-request-was-made-an-ugly-error-from-the-windows-10-app-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"“An invalid name request was made”: an ugly error from the Windows 10 app platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to open Spotify this morning, installed from the Windows Store, but saw the following error:<\/p>\n

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This is not user friendly. However I have the latest April update of Windows 10 (this may be the reason of course) which can reset and repair apps. Just right-click the app and choose App Settings. I clicked Repair. Got a nice tick. However the same error message.<\/p>\n

So I tried Reset. This completely reinstalls the app and resets its settings (annoying). Got a nice tick. Same error message.<\/p>\n

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Figuring this might be worth a blog post, I went to Open Live Writer, also installed from the Store. Oh dear. An invalid name request was made. The name requested cannot be retrieved at this time.<\/p>\n

In true Windows style, the actual name requested is hidden, not that I was consciously wanting to retrieve any kind of name. I just want the app to run, and being locally installed, reckon it should just work.<\/p>\n

I reverted to the non-Store version of Open Live Writer to make this post.<\/p>\n

In the event viewer, I see this:<\/p>\n

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0x801F0005: Cannot create the Desktop AppX container for package SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic_1.80.474.0_x86__zpdnekdrzrea0 because an error was encountered configuring the runtime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Next thing to try: reboot. Everything is fine.<\/p>\n

This is ugly though. Something broke multiple apps installed from the Store. I will update if I discover more about the reason for this.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> A tweet<\/a> from Microsoft Lead Program Manager Stefan Wick states that a fix is in the works:<\/p>\n

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I went to open Spotify this morning, installed from the Windows Store, but saw the following error: This is not user friendly. However I have the latest April update of Windows 10 (this may be the reason of course) which can reset and repair apps. Just right-click the app and choose App Settings. I clicked … Continue reading “An invalid name request was made”: an ugly error from the Windows 10 app platform<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1519,97],"tags":[1534,586],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-tech","category-windows","tag-appx","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10740,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions\/10740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}