I got Edge back after running a PowerShell command but had to configure it for both users. Yes, I mean the Win32 calculator. How can I remove the Feedhack Hub app in apps for websites? EDIT: Now some modern apps are not opening and those who don't have this problem don't appear below in the taskbar! EDIT 2: I had to reinstall all removed apps with PowerShell to get the settings app working again (actualy, only Windows Defender Security Center app is back) but now my Store isn't opening as well as my command prompt! How can I remove Windows Photo Viewer?
I can't replicate your problems, even across various different builds. You can re-install/re-register the default apps: Spoiler Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} Before deleting any apps, grab a .txt list of all installed app packages: Spoiler Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName >"$env:userprofile\Desktop\Apps_List.txt" Locate the full package name for the Feedback hub and use 1 of 2 ways to delete it: Spoiler Remove-AppxPackage "PackageFullName" or Get-AppxPackage *WindowsFeedbackHub* | Remove-AppxPackage
Please, I edited my previous post so could you read it from the beginning? I applied the last PowerShell command you wrote and it didn't remove the app. I think they are different apps. I used Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName >"$env:userprofile\Desktop\Apps_List.txt" and the file doesn't show any Feedback Hub, which is weird... It appears in apps for websites (weird enough) and below it says "insiderppe.cloudapp.net". I can turn it on or off. EDIT: I give up. I choose to keep this annoying Windows Defender Security Center app but at least I can open Store and Settings apps. The problem is that I can't open the command prompt anymore. How can I recover the Win32 calculator and remove Windows Photo Viewer and the Feedback Hub app?
Some apps can't be uninstalled through PShell on a live system unless you use it in conjunction with the dism API, which I am not going to even get into. Feedback Hub may be one of those you can't install using regular PShell because Feedback Hub also controls whether or not you're able to use Insider Builds. That in mind, deleting Feedback Hub will disable your ability to participate in Insider Builds, so if you participate in that, you will want to keep Feedback Hub. If not, you can use install_wim_tweak to remove it: I should have said this on the outset, but you should have a backup made before running any commands with a tool as powerful as install_wim_tweak is on a live system. Spoiler install_wim_tweak.exe /o /l to generate a list .txt file of all installed apps and packages. You should see Microsoft-WindowsFeedback in the list. install_wim_tweak.exe /o /c "Microsoft-WindowsFeedback" /r to delete the app. install_wim_tweak.exe /h /o /l to set the package list back to default by hiding them again, and re-generate the list of installed packages. Microsoft-WindowsFeedback should be gone. With the output list you generated, you will be able to see everything installed on your system and deleting something is the same command used above. The /o flag tells it to use the current online system image, the /c flag unhides the specific package and the /r flag removes the package.
The thing is, you're talking about the Windows Feedback app and I'm talking about the Feedback Hub, which I think are different apps so it's normal that those comands do not work since I already removed that app with CCleaner, I think, and even if I didn't remove they wouldn't work also because they are (I think) different apps... Oh, and after all the problem is more serious than I thought. I can't open the notepad and wordpad and probably other programs and not only the command prompt... The sfc /scannow doesn't detect anything wrong. Was this havoc created by that tool you mentioned when I tried removing that Windows Defender app? What should I do?
Feedback App and Feedback Hub have been a merged app since build 14291, hence why it's called "WindowsFeedback" in the package list. And yes, those commands work fine. I have been doing the exact same thing on one of my test VM's with both versions 1607 and 1703 and again, have not been able to replicate any issue you are having and the removal process works as it should - no Feedback App nor any trace of it in Apps for websites; Insider Preview "Get Started" button is greyed out and Feedback & diagnostic is also greyed out. Moreover, you've also been using tools like CCleaner (which I did not know) to try to remove things prior to running install_wim_tweak. With that 3rd variable in the mix, it's no wonder why this has not worked for you. I can't account for 3rd party tools you use to try to remove built-in Windows software. You're bound to have problems if you keep using different pieces of software to try to repetitively remove app packages.
Well, someone should have told me that before I ran install_wim_tweak. Now what should I do? And what about the other problems?
The onus is on you, the end-user, to have some common sense when it comes to modifying a live OS. It is not the job of others to make sure you're taking the proper precautions that, quite frankly, are common knowledge to people who regularly modify their live installations. You make backups and you use one tool at a time. You don't use something like CCleaner, IOBIT, etc. You use tools that have been tried and verified by the community. I am certainly not going to take any sort of blame for your lack of common sense, as the instructions you were given work perfectly fine; however, now you mention you were using CCleaner before to remove apps. CCleaner is not designed to remove all packages that are not able to be regularly removed through Settings. CCleaner does not unhide hidden packages nor properly assign icacls permissions for proper removal. Moreover, you mention your use of CCleaner before running any install_wim_tweak commands and the like. So basically what happened is CCleaner deleted various system entries for the app package(s) but was unable to remove them in their entirety and properly because CCleaner is not designed to remove such packages. So you have entries of these app packages scattered through your system, and then try to run install_wim_tweak which is designed for full package removal because it does the removal process properly. My recommendations to you would be to either revert to a backup prior to using CCleaner and then just use install_wim_tweak. If you have no backups made, re-install and re-register the default application packages with PowerShell and then run sfc /scannow followed by Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth. If problems are found, load your OS media and run Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source using your installed OS as the source to repair the corruption. If those are unable to fix your problems, then go into recovery and reset the PC. It will save your files and programs but re-install the OS which should get you squared away. Conclusively, I'd be happy to post a video of me removing these packages properly - as they were given to you earlier - on one of my test VMs. The commands I answered you with work perfectly fine but one can't expect them to work properly when you've already used software like CCleaner, that does a shoddy job at removing Windows apps, to try to remove apps that have a lot of integration into the OS itself. For that you need to use the proper tooks, not CCleaner.
No one gave me a answer before. When I mentioned about why The Windows Mail app keeps saying Your Gmail & Yahoo account settings are out of date.
How can I re-install and re-register it and also what does CCleaner have to do with this problem I have (the one about notepad, wordpad, command prompt)? I don't have a backup and I can't reset Windows since the PC isn't mine. I didn't know that CCleaner didn't remove the apps the correct way.
1) I gave you the command to re-install and re-register the default app packages a page or two back. You can find it if you scroll back. 2) You were claiming to be having all these issues - issues with simple commands that work pefectly well across multiple versions of Windows 10 - and then you mention you've already used CCleaner to try to remove apps. Quite frankly, I do not care what you use, but you cannot say "this isn't working" when you're using something like CCleaner to try to remove app packages used across the entire system. Also, to start getting obtuse because various commands are not working for you, as well as insinuate it was my job to read your mind and warn you about using CCleaner. 3) There was never a problem with Wordpad, Notepad and Command Prompt. Let's not feign ignorance here... 4) Before you even start doing anything like removing apps that cannot be removed with the simple PowerShell Remove-AppxPackage or Get-AppxPackage *name* | Remove-AppxPackage, a backup should always be created. Even a system image using Windows' built-in backup works perfectly fine, and there's some very solid free software out there like Macrium Reflect Free. When you start removing packages, features, etc., there's no telling what problems could arise. After all, just look at the problems you've had. A system backup is only logical so you can revert back to a working system. Better yet, doing everything on a VM before migrating it over to your live installation is the best route to take.
Weird, it worked for Yahoo for me when someone asked me to fix the same problem, might have to remove and add the Yahoo email account from Win 10 again after flipping the switch
1) Like I told you before, it didn't work... 2) Ok, my bad. 3) Before doing that, no, but after, yes. How can I solve this problem, then? A different question now: how can I disable Location, Diagnostics, Relevant Ads, Speech Recognition and the other option that appears during the install after the install?
2) Now I tried those commands in an untouched ISO, i.e., without having used CCleaner, and it still doesn't work! What do you have to say now?
I'd have to say that the problem here lies between the computer you're using and the chair you're sitting in.
I'd say it's not my fault but yours for saying the fault is mine. Anyway, the Windows Defender app for some reason freezes while loading (with that blue screen) and after some time it closes so although it wasn't removed it isn't working.
Only rule in all this is: DO NOT FIDDLE WITH PEOPLE'S COMPUTERS IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. The End!