Call me lazy, but I want to delete all of the apps on a fresh install of Windows 8.1 with a double click. How can this be accomplished with a .reg or .bat?
There is Option to " Remove everything " your system which only leave windows os, you can try that option Go to Settings > Change pc settings > update & Recovery > Recovery and select Remove Everything, it is safe and sound instead of using a reg or bat file which may remove microsoft components which in turn make user system unstable.
Or,there's always the simplest solution - to just 'waste' 10 seconds Ctrl+LMB'ing all the unwanted apps and then clicking 'Uninstall' .. It's not that time consuming and I sincerely doubt the OP is doing a large enough deployment that those seconds add up to something?
Here you go. You're welcome. Keep in mind that there are a few apps like the metro calculator and file explorer that get removed as well as they're considered store apps. This doesn't affect the desktop calculator or explorer. It's just a cmd script that runs powershell commands to remove the apps. I recommend reading it first if you are wary of powershell stuff. To run it, just double-click it or right click and run as admin. Either method will be elevated with admin privileges.