How can I block and then delete storeexperiencehost.exe safely?

I periodically get this pop-up from Malwarebytes Windows Firewall Control warning me about this executable that wants to phone home:



I notice the Microsoft Store Logo and blue box below it flash and appears when I open apps like AdwCleaner and Malwarebytes itself. Then it quickly disappears as if it's trying to phone home to the Microsoft Store for some reason. I've never installed those apps through the Microsoft Store. Never.

Although I have a rule active in Firewall Control to block it, it sometimes keeps reappears again & again asking me to allow it. I'd like to delete these attempts to phone home to what appears to be the Microsoft Store (?) since I never use it. Malwarebytes detects nothing. How can I delete this from happening?

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Revo also detects a number of these:



So I'm also wondering, are they related to what I asked up above? Do I need all these or can I delete them?

I have never used windows store as i find that one more troublesome then it's usefulness..
Have a look in services if there is any service connected to "store experience" or something similar.
Perhaps there is a setting in the store app (just guessing here as i never had store installed) that you can disable it..
Or...... just try the ugly 90's/early 00's solution..... find the file "storeexperiencehost.exe" then rename it "storeexperiencehost.exe.bak"
This way you can easy restore the file if something dont play nice... and if it solves the specific problem.. let it be there as its probibly not many KB's

Marie SWE said:

Have a look in services if there is any service connected to "store experience" or something similar.

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services.msc, I checked, Nothing in there.

Marie SWE said:

(just guessing here as i never had store installed)

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Nope, I don't have it installed.

Marie SWE said:

Or...... just try the ugly 90's/early 00's solution..... find the file "storeexperiencehost.exe" then rename it "storeexperiencehost.exe.bak"

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I may have to do that at some point. It's not located at C:\program files\windowsapps\ so I know that. What's there is that store package folder that it's pointing to and I'm not sure if I need to take control of it and delete it or not. Even if I did that, it still leaves that executable to find and a search turns up nothing.

Okay, so the file do not exist in the path it's listing C:\program files\windowsapps\microsoft.storepurchaseapp_226005xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Then it can be its more of a warning that it can't find the file... But if you say its trying to phone home.. it should be on the system.. What happen if you search for the exe file?
(if you have enabled to show all hidden and system files, otherwise you might never find it if its a system file and you have hide system files in explorer)