0x80070005 : Access is denied.

[venkee70]

Brief description of your issue

Getting below error while running winget-cli from normal user ( non administrator account)
winget list
Failed in attempting to update the source: winget
Failed to open the predefined source; please report to winget maintainers.
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x80070005 : Access is denied.

Steps to reproduce

winget list
Failed in attempting to update the source: winget
Failed to open the predefined source; please report to winget maintainers.
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x80070005 : Access is denied.

Expected behavior

List all packages in the machine

Actual behavior

Returned error
C:\Users\Ramana>winget list
Failed in attempting to update the source: winget
Failed to open the predefined source; please report to winget maintainers.
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x80070005 : Access is denied.

Environment

C:\Users\Ramana>winget --info
Windows Package Manager v1.8.1911
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22631.3958
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.23.1911.0

Winget Directories
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Diag…
User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\sett…
Portable Links Directory (User)    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User)       %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root              C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86)        C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads                %USERPROFILE%\Downloads

Links
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Privacy Statement   https://aka.ms/winget-privacy
License Agreement   https://aka.ms/winget-license
Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage            https://aka.ms/winget
Windows Store Terms https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/storedocs/terms-of-sale

Admin Setting                             State
--------------------------------------------------
LocalManifestFiles                        Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride                     Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride           Disabled
ProxyCommandLineOptions                   Disabled
DefaultProxy                              Disabled

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[sajiby3k]

I am seeing this is related to specific normal user. Let's say - you have two users - user1 and user2. For user1 it is not working. Kindly log into another user - user2. And try the same command. In my case for user2 - winget list works. I do not know what permission or files corrupted for user1 - that made winget get permission denied under normal user named - user1. Anyone can shed some light why user1 getting permission deny and how to fix that.

[venkee70]

Solved - based on the another thread.

Cause: the WinGet folder in the windows temp folder of my non-privileged user had - for whatever reason - admin access rights only.

Fix: deleted this WinGet folder, ran winget source update from an non-elevated shell again. Et voilà, a new WinGet folder with proper permissions has been created and everything is fine again. :-)

[adamsmith34]

Fix: deleted this WinGet folder, ran winget source update from an non-elevated shell again. Et voilà, a new WinGet folder with proper permissions has been created and everything is fine again. :-)

Thank you for this solution. Specifically, I navigated into the C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp folder, entered admin credentials, deleted the Temp folder, ran winget source update with no errors, and then winget behaved as expected.

[marioqxx]

Also thank you for the solution @venkee70.
As @adamsmith34 I deleted the folder C:\Users<User>\AppData\Local\Temp\Winget, which required Admin-rights.

[KKire]

I don't even have that folder in the Temp and still have the same error

[DrStrange]

gsudo can cause error 0x80070005:

gerardog/gsudo#376

The UniGetUI package manager uses gsudo:
https://github.com/marticliment/UniGetUI

[adamsmith34]

gsudo can cause error 0x80070005:

gerardog/gsudo#376

The UniGetUI package manger uses gsudo: https://github.com/marticliment/UniGetUI

This is it exactly. Thank you.

[ROBYER1]

Thanks for the solution, I am shocked that Windows doesn't just show the UAC prompt window to delete the admin access only folder in the appdata temp folder when it tries to install from the store?