{"id":1193,"date":"2016-12-20T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:23:49","slug":"completely-uninstall-default-windows-store-apps-in-windows-10-88-1-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/completely-uninstall-default-windows-store-apps-in-windows-10-88-1-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Completely Uninstall Default Windows Store Apps in Windows 10 (8\/8.1 too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am NOT a fan of the Windows Store or \u2018Charm\u2019 apps. If I want an application \u2013 I\u2019ll seek out and get it myself. I don\u2019t like being force fed a bunch of useless stuff I don\u2019t want or need. With the advent of Windows 8 through Windows 10 MS has pushed their default\/charm style applications. I use none of them. So I set out to remove them. Here is what I\u2019ve found. Hope it helps.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to uninstall individual apps in Windows 10, run the following command in an elevated PowerShell window:<\/p>\n<p>Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName<\/p>\n<p>You will be able to see the list of all installed apps and its PackageFullName information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/image_thumb-14.png\" width=\"466\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note down the <i>PackageFullName<\/i> and replace it in the following command:<\/p>\n<p>Get-AppxPackage PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage<\/p>\n<p>So the command to remove some of the apps will look as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Uninstall 3D Builder<\/p>\n<p>Get-AppxPackage *3dbuilder* | Remove-AppxPackage<\/p>\n<p>Uninstall Get Office app<\/p>\n<pre>Get-AppxPackage *officehub* | Remove-AppxPackage<\/pre>\n<p>Uninstall Get Started app<\/p>\n<pre>Get-AppxPackage *getstarted* | Remove-AppxPackage<\/pre>\n<p>Uninstall Get Skype app<\/p>\n<pre>Get-AppxPackage *skypeapp* | Remove-AppxPackage<\/pre>\n<p>Etc\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Run the command to uninstall the particular pre-installed default Windows 10 Store app and then restart your computer.<\/p>\n<p><b>If you want to uninstall the particular pre-installed app from all user accounts, use the following command format:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Get-AppxPackage -allusers PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Seems some people lost the Windows Store and wanted\/needed it to get Window apps.<\/p>\n<p>Another fully scripted way to remove everything BUT the Windows Store is here:<\/p>\n<p>Get-AppxPackage<\/p>\n<p>-AllUsers | where-object {$_.name \u2013notlike &quot;*Microsoft.WindowsStore*&quot;}<\/p>\n<p>| Remove-AppxPackage<\/p>\n<p>Get-appxprovisionedpackage \u2013online | where-object {$_.packagename \u2013notlike &quot;*Microsoft.WindowsStore*&quot;}<\/p>\n<p>| Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage \u2013online<\/p>\n<p>There are some tools available that will assist users in doing all this via a Graphic Intereface \u2013 Notably theWindowsClub\u2019s 10AppsManager for Win10; it\u2019s a freeware that will allow you to easily uninstall and reinstall the default, built-in, preinstalled Windows Store apps in Windows 10. It can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewindowsclub.com\/downloading-10appsmanager\">downloaded here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am NOT a fan of the Windows Store or \u2018Charm\u2019 apps. If I want an application \u2013 I\u2019ll seek out and get it myself. I don\u2019t like being force fed a bunch of useless stuff I don\u2019t want or need. With the advent of Windows 8 through Windows 10 MS has pushed their default\/charm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/completely-uninstall-default-windows-store-apps-in-windows-10-88-1-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Completely Uninstall Default Windows Store Apps in Windows 10 (8\/8.1 too)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,13,11,256,218],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}