Hi all, it's my second round with the problem in the subject: I tried to start MSFS2020 normally, but it locks at the initial screen with an eternally turning wheel at the bottom right of the screen. At the same time some Microsoft DX and Visual C++ starting appeared in the notification area. Subsequently the MS Store and Windows Update (error 0x80080005) don't work anymore. For my knowledge there is no other way, I have to reinstall Windows10 20H2, and this is the second not unfortunate case, this is a real unsolved problem with MSFS2020 and the MS Store garbage that are driving me to reinstall a working operative system for the second time in 2 months. Just letting you know what happens on my side, just curious to see what happens on yours.

I had this issue, and believe it was a cause of a lot of my CTD's. every day Windows would try and download visual C++ from the store, every day it failed. The only solution that seemed to work was a complete re -installation of MSFS after the last update, and i have had no issues since.

Why did re-installing fix the issue, I don't have a clue.