Install Microsoft Store Apps WITHOUT the Microsoft Store

are you missing the Microsoft store well I don't think anybody really misses the Microsoft store but you're probably missing some Microsoft apps this is the video for you because I'm going to show you how to install these Microsoft store apps without the Microsoft store let's get on the desktop in Windows right now and I'll show you so this is my bare bones gaming system that I absolutely love but there's a problem it's a very very clean install and there's certain things that I need from this install uh specifically winget because I use my tool all the time but since it's such a stripped down version I can't even access or get anything installed on the Microsoft store so let's let's tackle that installing winget really is actually pretty easy I made a little script here that is running these three commands it's utilizing what's called PS Gallery this is actually a Microsoft sanctioned Gallery so Microsoft hosts everything from here and it's actually referred to in official Microsoft knowledge base so as assist admin you're going to use a lot of stuff from PS Gallery this is a more unknown script that doesn't have very many downloads but man is it just well beautiful because it's able to do even on a completely stripped system able to grab every dependency needed so let's uh run this command real fast just to show you what it does we're going to open up our Powershell and then we're just going to paste that command with that in there this right here I'm going to break down each command for you it's setting the Powershell repository PS gallery to a trusted policy it means it's just not going to prompt you for it you don't necessarily need to run this command if you're running each one of these line by line because there's going to be prompts if you don't use this command which is fine if you want the prompts so we're going to go ahead and say Yes trust it with that done let's move on to the next line we're going to grab this script it's just an install script there's no website to type in or anything because when you say install Dash script immediately every Windows instance whether it's Windows 10 Windows 11 it's going to reference PS Gallery because it's Microsoft's official repository put that in and now it's installed the winget dash install script instead of going back and copying the next line you actually have an autocomplete now of winget Dash install and there it is you can click install and what this does is it's so much more powerful than using like appx install because it's using nuget which is a visual studio installer that is really hard to get on a bare bone system and this basically goes out and grabs all these really funky obscure dependencies that might be missing from systems and installs them on any system so if it's an LTS C system an Enterprise System a stripped down NT light ISO like this one it will literally go grab everything and put it right here that's pretty cool right but we're not done yet because there's more to learn about installing other stuff from the Microsoft store that you don't necessarily have a nice install script like this for so there's actually a website you can go to apps.microsoft.com and this is like the Microsoft store and pretty much this is what the Microsoft store is referencing it just has a little bit different look to it but you can actually do a search for any application and we can install that so let's look through here and say you know what I'm feeling like I need some Spotify from the Microsoft store because I hate myself so I'll grab this look at this app copy it and what we're going to do is go to RG Dash adguard This is actually another Microsoft site Microsoft hosts this site it's kind of a special site because any link created through this site is only temporary so don't put this in any scripts because RG dot add card you have to reference or basically do the search and then that link is only available for a short period of time before it expires and this is it it's just an online Link generator for the Microsoft store we have that file in here let's paste it in and that's that Spotify file we're going to hit OK take us to what this needs you can see it has these VC Libs dependencies I know that's already installed because we installed winget and that's also a dependency for it and then we also have all these different versions this can be really useful when trying to go to an older version from the Microsoft store so let's say you want that older version or you want this new version it just came out today it's got to be good right so we're going to come back into our console after we get our links let's say we want the latest 1.96 we'll copy that link address you can also click on it and download it from here but you know thermal sometimes better when you run into problems with their site because RG Dash adguard is a really meant for sys admins working in Powershell so we're going to do an irm just an invoke rest method a quotes we're going to paste that long Link in there that's going to expire we're going to dash o and then we're going to Output this to spot.appx and this is going to go out and download our 110 Meg Microsoft Spotify app all right with that downloaded Let's Do It LL make sure we're spot.app X is there you can see it right and then we just do an add appx package and then we do spot dot Apex like that I did a tab complete that's why I added that extra stuff before it and then we just hit enter this is now throwing an error why does that happen on some packages you might ask well we're either missing a dependency or we're also needing a license file now if we look at the actual error message it says oh well you're missing VC lib 140 for the x86 oh that's right we did VC lib 144 64-bit that's another issue you might run into as 64-bit and 32-bit issues aren't nearly as big of a thing as it was in the Vista days but it's still there hiding behind the scenes so we can actually come into here and what we're going to do is grab that exact version we need which was x86 which should be this guy so we're going to right click it copy link address and then we're just going to do an irm quotes paste it in spot depth Apex and make sure we do the dash o all right that was a quick dependency so not a very big file so let's try to do the add appx package spot Dash dependency like that okay that one looked like it worked Let's uh go up again and let's see if we can't add the spot one now oh that's looking promising no error did we now have Spotify on here hot dog we just installed the Spotify version of the Microsoft app now if you do run into any launch issues make sure you restart your computer because it's Windows after all but now that you see all these cool things hopefully this helps you get any Microsoft Store app that you want on your system without having to mess with the Microsoft store

Channel: Chris Titus Tech

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Length: 7min 35sec (455 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 26 2022