How to fix "windows cannot find 'ms-windows-store:purge caches', make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again"

I got an error message saying "windows cannot find 'ms-windows-store:purge caches', make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again". I have no ideas what it mean. Please help.
 

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Last updated December 4, 2018 Views 53,028 Applies to:
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Go to
Ctrl X

Bring up the Windows powershell admin

Type in the following
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $Env:SystemRoot\WinStore\AppxManifest.xml

Go back to windows store and it should re-work!!

Kudos to Luis Cantero from this post http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_store/just-updated-to-windows-81-and-the-windows-store/c4cf204d-bd99-426c-b800-9c9125ae739c?page=2

Enjoy

Yahya Al-Din

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