Win10 Powershell and Killing Apps

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Win10 Powershell and Killing Apps

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tangor

12:27 pm on Jul 29, 2016 (gmt 0)

MS Win10 comes with over a dozen new apps ... mostly Metro based .... which many have no use for. MS, in their wisdom, has made a number of these very difficult to disable, much less uninstall. There is, however, a way to do that using Power Shell. If you are comfortable playing from the command line:

Start Powershell (run as admin)
type: GetAppxPackage and hit enter key for listing of all on the system (or you can isolate by user as well)

Example to remove one kind of "new app" is

Get-AppxPackage *windowscalculator* | Remove-AppxPackage

For a full list of what can be done this way see:

[cnet.com...]

engine

1:05 pm on Jul 29, 2016 (gmt 0)

Oh, that's pretty neat, eh, thanks.
I can't help but think that may get disabled in a future update. Or, perhaps it won't as it allows for customisation which some OEMs may want.

ergophobe

11:23 pm on Jul 29, 2016 (gmt 0)

Nice tip.

engine - there have been startup managers for as long as Windows has been bloated. If this gets disabled, someone will create an alternative (it's just an interface to registry settings and they can't stop people with Admin rights from editing the registry).