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cause i hate those extra apps of windows 10 i did remove them, but some of them can't be removed to i forced them. i did remove (cortana, microsoft edge, windows feedback, contact support) would that have an effect on the system or not ?

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i did follow those steps, but as you can see there is some apps you can't remove them (like cortana and Edge). i did some tricks to remove them but i want to make sure that i won't face any future problems

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i did follow those steps, but as you can see there is some apps you can't remove them (like cortana and Edge). i did some tricks to remove them but i want to make sure that i won't face any future problems

 

Dont remove things that state they cant be removed. Its like that for a reason, for example if you remove Edge your help wont work as well as some features that Explorer.exe will use to websearch in the background or even search for Windows Updates... you can mess your system up quite badly by forcing it.

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Dont remove things that state they cant be removed. Its like that for a reason, for example if you remove Edge your help wont work as well as some features that Explorer.exe will use to websearch in the background or even search for Windows Updates... you can mess your system up quite badly by forcing it.

don't worry about that, i did make a backup for the ssd before playing with windows. i'm trying to get rid of unneeded programs

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Cortana and Edge are integrated to the OS. They cant' be disabled.

You don't have to use Cortana service (in fact, it is disabled by default, you actually need to turn it on manually to use it), but it is the search engine of Windows. No Cortana, no searching.

Edge cannot be removed. While it doesn't have the ActiveX component like IE11, which an incredible amount of software and their help documents uses, the engine can be integrated in a Windows 10 App (Universal App), and therefore, cannot be removed, as if it is, then many apps will fail to work, much like many software will crash the moment they need IE11 to be integrated in itself.

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Cortana and Edge are integrated to the OS. They cant' be disabled.

You don't have to use Cortana service (in fact, it is disabled by default, you actually need to turn it on manually to use it), but it is the search engine of Windows. No Cortana, no searching.

Edge cannot be removed. While it doesn't have the ActiveX component like IE11, which an incredible amount of software and their help documents uses, the engine can be integrated in a Windows 10 App (Universal App), and therefore, cannot be removed, as if it is, then many apps will fail to work, much like many software will crash the moment they need IE11 to be integrated in itself.

actualy removing edge and cortana made no problems at all but when i remove windows feedback and deleting it's registry keys i did face a big problem. after starting the pc and loging in a message said that windows components are damaged and it retrieves data from ram reboot. i used advanced startup options but the mouse and the keyboard won't work (i don't really know why). so i used the backup i have to get everything back, and i'll start playing again.the high ram usage is the reason that i'm removing unnecessary things and what i did notice after removing cortana and edge the system ram usage goes from about 2.5GB to 0.9GB.

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what i did notice after removing cortana and edge the system ram usage goes from about 2.5GB to 0.9GB.

No. You have disabled other things. Probably doing things you read on the web without understanding what they do, from people not understanding what they do. Windows memory consumption varies based on your RAM amount. For example, if you have 2GB of RAM, Windows 10 will NOT consume 2.5GB or 2GB or anything above 1GB. That is because Windows 10 can load and unload things from RAM based on the system specs, to provide the best user experience. In addition, you have SuperFetch. People freaked out when it was introduced in Vista days, not understanding what it does. SuperFetch takes a segment of your RAM (but not reserved), to pre-load part of your software before you do, based on your usage, allowing faster program startup. If you need the RAM, SuperFetch will free it as you need it.

Another technology that the OS uses for systems with low RAM, is dynamic compression technique, new to Windows 10. Once you are low in RAM, instead of putting unused programs in the page file, it will first compress them and keep them in RAM, and decompress them on-site as you need it, and compresses something else. Doing this, is far faster then using the disk.

So I don't know what exactly you did to force things, or disable things, nor do I recall care to be honest. But disabling things that can't be disabled, never ends well.

As for Cortana and Edge, you probably just removed Cortana from the taskbar/start menu (and now you have no search box on the Start Menu, like you did under Win7, so congrats), but the core is still there, same for Edge, assuming that things actually continued to worked properly, as you claim.

Here is an example for Edge:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/javascript-browser/9nblggh1z7vx

Install this app, if it works, then you didn't remove Edge

If it doesn't work, then you broke Windows, and now you'll have many Windows Apps (universal apps), not work anymore.

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No. You have disabled other things. Probably doing things you read on the web without understanding what they do, from people not understanding what they do. Windows memory consumption varies based on your RAM amount. For example, if you have 2GB of RAM, Windows 10 will NOT consume 2.5GB or 2GB or anything above 1GB. That is because Windows 10 can load and unload things from RAM based on the system specs, to provide the best user experience. In addition, you have SuperFetch. People freaked out when it was introduced in Vista days, not understanding what it does. SuperFetch takes a segment of your RAM (but not reserved), to pre-load part of your software before you do, based on your usage, allowing faster program startup. If you need the RAM, SuperFetch will free it as you need it.

Another technology that the OS uses for systems with low RAM, is dynamic compression technique, new to Windows 10. Once you are low in RAM, instead of putting unused programs in the page file, it will first compress them and keep them in RAM, and decompress them on-site as you need it, and compresses something else. Doing this, is far faster then using the disk.

So I don't know what exactly you did to force things, or disable things, nor do I recall care to be honest. But disabling things that can't be disabled, never ends well.

As for Cortana and Edge, you probably just removed Cortana from the taskbar/start menu (and now you have no search box on the Start Menu, like you did under Win7, so congrats), but the core is still there, same for Edge, assuming that things actually continued to worked properly, as you claim.

Here is an example for Edge:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/javascript-browser/9nblggh1z7vx

Install this app, if it works, then you didn't remove Edge

If it doesn't work, then you broke Windows, and now you'll have many Windows Apps (universal apps), not work anymore.

actualy i did everything on my own. and i did remove the whole program, i did delete the it's folders from (windows/systemApps) thanks to Unlocker. and i searched for all it's registry keys and i deleted them, even the drivers. and when i try to start cortana or edge nothing happen. i have a lot of ram but that was not my goal, i have a little project and there is some things i must check that's why i'm doing all of that.

removing cortana and edge didn't make any problems, but when i remove windows feedback, things goes crazy

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