windows 8.1 store downloads keep pending

heero yuy

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i am trying to download project spark from the windows 8.1 store

first it never started downloading it would just end up stuck pending and then it would say it could not download because windows was updating (all updates for windows 8.1 have been installed i installed them after it started saying this because i thought that would stop it from doing what it is doing)

i then was told to delete the softwaredistribution folder under C:\windows in order to do that i had to boot into safe mode because windows is great at telling me what process is using that folder (i had stopped the update service)

after that it started to download (last time i checked it was at 20% downloaded) but now it is stuck pending again

does anyone know a fix for this? (i have also tried resetting the store cache or w/e - running wsreset.exe)