How to get rid of start menu adds

[Surpuppa]

I watched this video 

 

 

and I type in the command, Get-AppxPackage -allusers | Remove-AppxPackage, but nothing happens. All I get is "Access Denied". What did I do wrong? Is it not possible to change anymore?

[vanished]

Start menu ads?  Never heard of it

[Gamerguy207]

What are start menu ads can u show us a picture 

 

do u mean the ads on the windows menu when you push the windows button?

 

Because for those you just right click and push remove or uninstall 

[Mooshi]

OP linked a video at the exact spot...come on guys.

 

They mean things like the junk that comes pre-pinned to the start menu like Solitaire ect.

[vanished]

I watched a clip from that video, and if those preloaded shortcuts are what you mean (not really ads but ok), you can just right click them and "unpin from start" or "uninstall" in some cases.  No different than shortcuts on your desktop to preinstalled programs like WMP, IE, or default shortcuts to MSN, etc. really.

[NinJake]

Take a look at the "windows 10 decrapifier" powershell script made by user Csand on Spiceworks. Works wonders, just make sure to read the instructions on what you're doing.

 

Otherwise just follow what Ryan_Vickers said, and right click, uninstall.

[viperchr]

like ryan said they are not ads but actual apps preloaded in windows 10 which most all of the can be uninstalled through settings by going to the apps section, finding the one you don't want there and simply telling it to uninstall. for the rare few that will not allow uninstallation you could simply unpin them from the start menu. no need to try running any codes or anything like that.

[Surpuppa]

Just now, viperchr said:

like ryan said they are not ads but actual apps preloaded in windows 10 which most all of the can be uninstalled through settings by going to the apps section, finding the one you don't want there and simply telling it to uninstall. for the rare few that will not allow uninstallation you could simply unpin them from the start menu. no need to try running any codes or anything like that.

I marked yours solved but thanks to everyone else who helped aswell!

[GoodBytes]

You can also right-click on pick Uninstall... if they are no "Uninstall" option, pick Unpin (those are just links to the Store which will download, install and run the app/game).

 

But checkout the Settings panel of Windows 10, go settings by settings, you can customize quite a few things to your liking and disable anything you don't want or have different.

 

 

Also that command you typed, would have wiped ALL apps, and you would have been royally screwed. Like Windows re-installed screwed. Please know what you are doing before doing anything. You got blocked because you put the argument "alluser" so you need elevated credentials for this as it affects more than just your account. If there is anything, we would gladly help... don't do what some idiot on YouTube says. They are A LOT of crap being said on many things... Many people don't bother reading the docs, and people just read what they found on the web on some comment probably for something else and repeat. And most YouTubers are looking for views over giving you actual helpful advice. Then I have to help those people to fix their system. PLEASE, please please, read the documentations. Microsoft has massive amount of it. If it a bore, we will gladly help giving your the quick answer. I haven't seen the video, but let me guess, "Windows 10 spying on you", telemetry data is not spying, it is nothing new to Windows. It was introduced since Windows XP. Nvidia has theirs, all large web sites have theirs, and this topic was talked to death here, and Microsoft provides everything it collects.. beside using Bing and associated service (example: Cortana), no personal information is collected.

[SansVarnic]

34 minutes ago, Surpuppa said:

and I type in the command, Get-AppxPackage -allusers | Remove-AppxPackage, but nothing happens. All I get is "Access Denied". What did I do wrong? Is it not possible to change anymore?

The commands he typed in activated a package/program that he wrote or got that removes certain things from his pc. It is not something included in Windows by default.

Just to answer your original question.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Windows may occasionally add links to apps, to which you go to Start Menu options in the Settings app and turn off "Occasionally show me suggested apps"