I'm still hoping I'm not going to have to do a reinstall or a refresh of Windows 8.1 and have run across another interesting aside that probably has something to do with this. When I look at the Event Viewer, Administrative Events, I have many errors that date back to 2/3/15, the 2nd week of having my new computer. This is the week I discovered that the Store was not working properly. So, I'd say it's safe to assume the event errors and the Store issues are related. Anyway, here are the errors and their details -
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles Service
[ Guid] {89B1E9F0-5AFF-44A6-9B44-0A07A7CE5845
EventID 1508
Version 0
Level 2
Task 0
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2015-02-23T22:25:27.680171000Z
EventRecordID 42526
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 612
[ ThreadID] 6320
Channel Application
Computer crazydoglady
- Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-18
- EventData
Error The configuration registry database is corrupt.
File C:\Users\thatcrazydoglady\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\\UsrClass.dat
- System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles Service
[ Guid] {89B1E9F0-5AFF-44A6-9B44-0A07A7CE5845}
EventID 1542
Version 0
Level 2
Task 0
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x8000000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2015-02-23T22:25:27.680171000Z
EventRecordID 42528
Correlation
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 612
[ ThreadID] 6320
Channel Application
Computer crazydoglady
- Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-18
- EventData
Error The configuration registry database is corrupt.
These 2 errors keep repeating and they are all for UserID S-1-5-18 and like I said, they began on 2/3/15. On 2/2/15, there were lots of WindowsUpdateClient errors, so could that be part of the problem also? So, is S-1-5-18 me? If so, how can I fix this? I also appear to have in the Registry these user ids also S-1-5-19, S1-5-20, and S-1-5-21-18567169-1918087116-4124101320-1001 , but not sure which one is me as administrator, or.......???????
For the first listed error, when I go to C:\Users\thatcrazydoglady\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\\UsrClass.dat , I don't find there to be a UsrClass.dat, but rather 2 empty files that are INetCache and INetCookies.
Hope this helps!