Here is a tutorial on using PowerShell to remove the WIndows 10 Built-In apps. This is useful for providing a standardized PC environment to users in a work environment.
Basically, several PowerShell commands are used. The following commands show and remove apps from the user account.
- Show a listing of all the installed apps on the computer – Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName
- Remove the app – Get-AppxPackage [PackageFullName] | Remove-AppxPackage (you can put this into a script for multiple apps, or use wildcards)
Variations include uninstalling the app from all user accounts by adding -allusers – Get-AppxPackage -allusers [PackageFullName] | Remove-AppxPackage
If you need to re-install a particular app, you can use the following command – Add-AppxPackage -register “C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\[PackageFullName]\appxmanifest.xml” -DisableDevelopmentMode
Thanks to the folk at A?KVG for these articles.
Thanks for providing a way to reverse it. Just playing around with things and seeing how much I can actually remove from the start menu to customize it and ran a command which deleted almost everything which is awesome. It is useful to have access to the Windows Store however so it’s nice to have the command to add it back too. Bookmarked for future use. 🙂