PSA How to remove default apps in Windows 10 (Groove Music)

[zacRupnow]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/35c0cy/how_can_i_uninstall_apps_on_windows_10_using/

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-uninstall-default-apps-in-windows-10/

 

This example is for the Groove Music bloatware. 

Using Powershell (doesn't seem to be more than a newer Command Prompt)

Paste this in, there are two so here is the script to remove both.

 

Get-AppxPackage -name "Microsoft.ZuneMusic" | Remove-AppxPackage

Get-AppxPackage -name "Microsoft.Music.Preview" | Remove-AppxPackage

[Arty]

why did you set it as default anyway?

in the install is asked 

keep old defualts

or use new ones

 

i just hit old....lmao

[Leonard]

Now we need to find out how to do this for stupid keylogging, voice recording Cortana.....

[LAwLz]

Can't you just right click and choose uninstall?

[zacRupnow]

Can't you just right click and choose uninstall?

Groove among other things (Cortana, calculator, Xbox, Windows Store, etc.) are "not applications"  and changing the file ownership of the files doesn't make them delete-able either. So you need to run lines of Script into Powershell to do it.

[EposVox]

Using Powershell (doesn't seem to be more than a newer Command Prompt)

Errr, they did actually update Command Prompt a lot, but PowerShell is a separate terminal emulator that has been a part of Windows for a long time.

[rudolphd]

Thanks, this is useful, yesterday I deleted People and 3D Builder manually in program files folder, but they still are showing, but not working..

 

Btw for those who don't like that new start menu - Classic Start Menu - http://www.classicshell.net/

I'm using this since Windows 8 and I don't see any differences in start menu's/start screens

 

This may be useful too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3f45ix/easy_way_to_uninstall_onedrive_if_you_arent_using/

"Uninstall OneDrive completely on Windows 10"

@[member=Echo] offcls set x86="%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\OneDriveSetup.exe"set x64="%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe" echo Closing OneDrive process.echo.taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exe > NUL 2>&1ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > NUL 2>&1 echo Uninstalling OneDrive.echo.if exist %x64% (%x64% /uninstall) else (%x86% /uninstall)ping 127.0.0.1 -n 5 > NUL 2>&1 echo Removing OneDrive leftovers.echo.rd "%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1rd "C:\OneDriveTemp" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1rd "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1rd "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft OneDrive" /Q /S > NUL 2>&1 echo Removeing OneDrive from the Explorer Side Panel.echo.REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f > NUL 2>&1REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f > NUL 2>&1 pause

Save this as a .bat file, and launch.