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Windows 10 comes with a ton of built in apps that at least from a business prospective are useless, irrelevant, and potential avenues for threats.

I complied the below from various other guides, but I have yet to see one listed here on spiceworks, so heres a cut down direct guide.

edited: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-management/apps-in-windows-10 this is a list of all apps installed on windows 10 and does a decent job of linking to what each app is used by.

5 Steps total

Step 1: Identify what apps you wish to remove

To search for the apps: Run the below in an Elevated Powershell window.

Get-ProvisionedAppXPackage -Online Select DisplayName

This will result in all Default built in Apps. Keep this list open or readily available.

Step 2: Removing specific Apps for logged in user

For the rest of the guide we will focus on 1 app. You can run this for most of the apps. Just replace the name 'Microsoft.BingNews' with the desired app.

Get-AppxPackage -Name 'Microsoft.BingNews' -AllUsers Remove-AppxPackage

This will uninstall the app Microsoft.BingNews from all users who HAVE at one point logged into this computer.

Step 3: Remove built in apps from future users

The previous step does not take into account future users. You must run this code to prevent the next user who logs in from having the default app installed.

Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -Online
where DisplayName -EQ 'Microsoft.BingNews'
Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online

Step 4: Script to automate steps 2 and 3

The below is a simple script to perform steps 2 and 3. You MUST check every app below to be sure you want to remove it!!!!

(Do not remove windows 10 store! It is not in the list and should not be removed. You need to have the store if you ever wish to reinstall any of the removed apps.)

$packages = @(
'McAfeeInc.06.McAfeeSecurityAdvisorforLenovo'
'Microsoft.3DBuilder'
'Microsoft.BingFinance'
'Microsoft.BingFoodAndDrink'
'Microsoft.BingHealthAndFitness'
'Microsoft.BingTravel'
'Microsoft.Getstarted'
'Microsoft.Wallet'
'Microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps'
'Microsoft.WindowsReadingList'
'Microsoft.ZuneVideo'
'Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider'
'Microsoft.XboxGameCallableUI'
'Microsoft.SkypeApp'
'Microsoft.WindowsAlarms'
'Microsoft.ZuneMusic'
'Microsoft.XboxSpeechToTextOverlay'
'Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay'
'Microsoft.XboxApp'
'Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder'
'Microsoft.WindowsPhone'
'Microsoft.WindowsMaps'
'Microsoft.WindowsFeedbackHub'
'Microsoft.People'
'Microsoft.OneConnect'
'Microsoft.Office.Sway'
'Microsoft.Office.OneNote'
'Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection'
'Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer'
'Microsoft.Messaging'
'Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller'
'Microsoft.ConnectivityStore'
'Microsoft.CommsPhone'
'Microsoft.BingWeather'
'Microsoft.BingSports'
'Microsoft.BingNews'
'Microsoft.Appconnector'
)

ForEach ($packages in $packages) {
Get-AppxPackage -Name $packages -AllUsers Remove-AppxPackage

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Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -Online
where DisplayName -EQ $packages
Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online
}

Step 5: Script and Powershell help

Copy the script text starting at the '$' in step 4. Paste into note pad, and save as to 'remove_apps.ps1'. Save in directory of your choice.

Probably your computer will not allow you to just run the script. To 'run once' a script;

open elevated powershell.

run: Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass

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then dir to script location

Default

run; .remove_apps.ps1

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run: Set-ExecutionPolicy Restricted

Let me know if theres any errors. The listed apps in the script are going to vary by computer. Some computers have more apps, some less.

If you run the script twice. youll see a lot of errors as it will process each line item regardless if it has been run once.

You will also see errors if you run the individual command and then run the script.

The script was largely from a github user that I used to build mine. Credit link in references.

Published: Jul 20, 2017 · Last Updated: Jun 07, 2019

References

  • Credit to This github for providing the basis of the script.
  • Installed windows 10 apps
  • Powershell elevation documentation

42 Comments

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  • Chipotle
    Shawn1123 Jul 20, 2017 at 12:51pm

    Much appreciated. Worked like a charm. Did receive one error but that was for XboxGameCall...but I was able to run the individual command and it was fine.

  • Tabasco
    dvdsmith Jul 20, 2017 at 01:35pm

    Nice guide! I would recommend in step 4 including just 5 or so examples, making it clear they should run the command in step one first. As you said, the list varies between PCs due to Windows 10 build and OEM apps such as the Lenovo one I'm seeing there.

    Keep in mind there are some apps, games included, that may be included the default profile but not in the provisioned apps. I previously made the post below regarding Store Apps and Sysprep, and also addressed the default profile.

    https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1988618-w10-things-i-want-to-change-but-had-issues?page=1#entry-6847605

    If you like anything there, feel free to include in your guide.

  • Serrano
    ml_work Jul 20, 2017 at 06:57pm

    Thanks, I will keep this. I fought through some of these a few months ago trying to get some Win10 boxes cleaned up. I remember the Xbox would give an error but it did remove it even with the error. The part to remove Future Users will be great the next time I need this.

  • Datil
    CrimsonKidA Jul 20, 2017 at 07:15pm

    This is a frequent source of annoyance and one of those things that really makes you wonder WTF was MS thinking with these garbage apps. Cartoonish kid games in a business OS..just why. Thank you for this write-up. I will be using it very soon, I'm sure.

  • Jalapeno
    EtherCreature Jul 20, 2017 at 07:56pm

    Looks like you have Microsoft.3DBuilder in there twice, position 1 and last. FYI.. ;-)

  • Chipotle
    nancyneal Jul 20, 2017 at 07:58pm

    Nice, I will keep this in mind for our next windows 10 roll out.

  • Thai Pepper
    MR.Burnz Jul 20, 2017 at 08:28pm

    Thanks for Sharing. This should help a lot of people. I will give it a try later.

  • Sonora
    Tyler9215 Jul 20, 2017 at 09:13pm

    I literally just received a ticket for this earlier today. =)

  • Cayenne
    stephenlasseigne Jul 20, 2017 at 10:03pm

    Thanks, I'll add this to my install scripts and test on my next batch of computers.

  • Jalapeno
    DSumpter Jul 20, 2017 at 10:15pm

    Nice write-up for what should not have to exist in the first place in a Pro or Enterprise OS. Not to downplay what you are trying to do of course. Spiced.

    [rant] It just annoys my socks off that MS keeps doing this crap [/rant]

  • Serrano
    bryndonbooth Jul 21, 2017 at 02:14am

    Looks great! I will definitely be using a lot of this when creating a W10 image soon.
    A couple of details though:
    - Step 3 - is this a run once or when each user logs in for the first time?
    - Step 5 - shouldn't the execution policy be set to bypass for this rather than changing it to unrestricted permanently?

  • Chipotle
    braindigitalis Jul 21, 2017 at 10:00am

    Looks good!

    We currently run these commands by hand, and on some PCs we've also had to disable the timebroker service via a registry hack. Admittedly Microsoft say that disabling timebroker will harm apps, but we've not noticed any negatives to day to day business use by doing so, only massive performance (disk and network) increases.

  • Datil
    Z-Rogue Jul 21, 2017 at 11:08am

    bryndonbooth - Step 3 is run once if running for a specific app, it removes the package from windows so it will not install automatically for the next new user to log in.
    - Step 5 I tried running it with a bypass, but it refused to run, rather than fight with it, Im just unrestricting everything, as soon as you close powershell it will revert to the default state - which is restricted.

  • Sonora
    Andrew6887 Jul 21, 2017 at 02:22pm

    I personally use

    'Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers where-object {$_.name –notlike “*store*”} Remove-AppxPackage'

    and

    'Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online where-object {$_.packagename –notlike “*store*”} Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online'

    They will remove all apps but the windows store.

  • Chipotle
    Steve4698 Jul 21, 2017 at 03:04pm

    Did I miss it?
    Is Cortana not in that list.
    I would really like to disable Cortana also.

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