Why do I get Apps in Windows 8 listed as 'Not available' sometimes?

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Published on 2012-11-06T03:08:49Z Indexed on 2012/11/06 5:06 UTC
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What affects this, and if possible, how can I prevent this? Or maybe how can I get them to be available sooner or all the time?

This pretty much happens to my game apps connected to Xbox live and a few others from time to time. It never happened before I updated the computer, but I haven't had the PC long anyway. Could it be that after updates that need a restart it does this as well (I've done two of those so far)? Anyhow, I'm frustrated, I keep clicking on a app and it not responding.

The problem fixes itself at some point, but I have not been able to stare at my PC long enough to figure out how long it takes or what happened.

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