Renewing a Developer Licence on Windows 8/RT

Here's a quick tip if you have some side loaded apps on windows 8/RT and your developer licence has expired. When this happens the apps have a cross on them and are unable to open taking you to the store.

Problem

Solution

Open PowerShell with admin privileges and execute the following command

Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration

This will prompt you through the same dialog as when installing your first side loaded app. A developer Licence expires every month so a quick script to bring up this prompt could be handy.