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Hello I had successfully installed WSL few days ago and everything was working fine. But after the I got an update regarding WSL from Microsoft Store I updated WSL and since then it is throwing this error. I also restarted the computer and checked to make sure my Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux are ON and I found out that both of these services were already ON. still I get the same error. May I please get any guidance on this one? as I have to use WSL for my educational purpose that would be really helpful thanks
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WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80070050
Error: 0x80070050 The file exists.
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I am not finding any relevant tags for this issue hence I will be putting a random tag
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Hi @Shlok Purani ，
The "office-teams-linux-itpro" is for general questions about Teams desktop on Linux. Since from the description, your issue is not about Teams, I'll remove the Teams related tag. Thanks for your understanding.
The tag "small-basic" is for Technical questions about Microsoft Small Basic, the only text-based language and IDE built for students to learn to code
Please remove the tag "small-basic" as your question in not about Small Basic