anyway to remove windows 10 apps?

I want to remove apps like xbox, cortana and some other useless mobile apps. Is there anyway? Win 8.1 let me uninstall them so easily ...but why no uninstall option in Win 10?

 

StartIsBack++ allow you to uninstall some Modern apps like Calculator, Mail, Alarm... but not Cortana, Settings, Store...

 

AFAIK

C:\Windows\SystemApps

Take Ownership to delete corresponding folders.

 

Any reason for removing them? If you don't want them, then just ignore/don't use them. Simple.

 

You could simply try to use the Right Click and if Uninstall is shown, that will works (for that Apps)! Other you could simply disable via Apps and Features!

 

Yes it does, or at least the uninstall option is there for those three, not tried uninstalling them

 

1. Start an Administrative Powershell window
2. Run the command 'Get-AppxPackage | Select Name,PackageFullname' (This will list installed Metro apps displaying the Name and PackageFullname needed to uninstall)
3. Locate XboxLive package
4. Copy the 'PackageFullname'
5. Type 'Remove-AppXPackage <PackageFullname>' (replace <PackageFullname> with the text you copied from the list) and hit enter
6. Reboot

 

The best (and official) way is by dism. If you wanto to remove unremovable apps (like defender etc) you can try install_wim_tweak.exe.

 

hello, i use this method since windows 8, but i noticed that using dism and install_wim_tweaker from command prompt in windows 10 is very slow...sometimes the cmd look like is sleeping and i need to send "enter" to "wake up". Did you noticed/had the same is issue or is only me?

thanks

 

I used power shell and command "Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage" which worked nicely in Windows 8.1, but it seems it deleted the new Windows 10 store... Is there a command to redownload it, or do I have to reinstall?

 

Code:

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

Code:

Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

This will delete all XAML Apps except the system stuff like Action-Center, Start Menu etc..

 

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not everyone uses the store though.

 

Just take ownership Program Files/WindowsApps folder and delete it i did that too

 

I don't know beacause i always use it offline, directly on .wim .

 

Just reboot, format, and install Windows XP! You obviously don't want Windows 10.

 

Use the below script just paste the text in the spoiler into notepad and run the script and select the app you want to remove..U can select all apps at once too

Spoiler

Import-LocalizedData -BindingVariable Messages

Function PSCustomErrorRecord
{
#This function is used to create a PowerShell ErrorRecord
Param
(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=1)][String]$ExceptionString,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=2)][String]$ErrorID,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=3)][System.Management.Automation.ErrorCategory]$ErrorCategory,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true,Position=4)][PSObject]$TargetObject
)
Process
{
$exception = New-Object System.Management.Automation.RuntimeException($ExceptionString)
$customError = New-Object System.Management.Automation.ErrorRecord($exception,$ErrorID,$ErrorCategory,$TargetObject)
return $customError
}
}

Function RemoveAppxPackage
{
$index=1
$apps=Get-AppxPackage
#return entire listing of applications
Write-Host "ID`t App name"
foreach ($app in $apps)
{
Write-Host " $index`t $($app.name)"
$index++
}

Do
{
$IDs=Read-Host -Prompt "Which Apps do you want to remove? `nInput their IDs and seperate IDs by comma"
}
While($IDs -eq "")

#check whether input values are correct
try
{
[int[]]$IDs=$IDs -split ","
}
catch
{
$errorMsg = $Messages.IncorrectInput
$errorMsg = $errorMsg -replace "Placeholder01",$IDs
$customError = PSCustomErrorRecord `
-ExceptionString $errorMsg `
-ErrorCategory NotSpecified -ErrorID 1 -TargetObject $pscmdlet
$pscmdlet.WriteError($customError)
return
}

foreach ($ID in $IDs)
{
#check id is in the range
if ($ID -ge 1 -and $ID -le $apps.count)
{
$ID--
#Remove each app
$AppName=$apps[$ID].name

Remove-AppxPackage -Package $apps[$ID] -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if (-not(Get-AppxPackage -Name $AppName))
{
Write-host "$AppName has been removed successfully"
}
else
{
Write-Warning "Remove '$AppName' failed! This app is part of Windows and cannot be uninstalled on a per-user basis."
}
}
else
{
$errorMsg = $Messages.WrongID
$errorMsg = $errorMsg -replace "Placeholder01",$ID
$customError = PSCustomErrorRecord `
-ExceptionString $errorMsg `
-ErrorCategory NotSpecified -ErrorID 1 -TargetObject $pscmdlet
$pscmdlet.WriteError($customError)
}
}
}

RemoveAppxPackage

 

what extension should I put for the text file?

 

deliteAPP.ps1