Is it safe to uninstall all apps except for Store with this script?

Hello,

Last month I cleanly reinstalled Windows 10 Pro with an older build of 1903 final build version.


I have a bunch of apps like Microsoft Pay, Photos, People, Xbox Game Bar, Xbox, Maps, Your Phone, etc.

I saw this script from this site A short command to remove all apps in Windows 10 except Store

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | where-object {$_.name –notlike "*store*"} | Remove-AppxPackage

In other sites I have seen the same script. Is it safe to apply this script? I would like to uninstall all the store apps except for the Microsoft Store.

I don't care about the Store apps, as long as they don't cause any computer problems. Is it safe to uninstall all of these apps except for the Store? I use Classic Calculator. I don't need Photos app, Maps or any Xbox apps.

If I do this, there won't be any negative implications? I know I've heard of debloating before. But I have never proceeded to uninstall all of the apps! I have only individually uninstalled them.

But this script I don't know what it will uninstall and if there are any consequences in doing so.

I want some advice before I proceed with this.

Many thanks!

Try3 said:

I think the best advice is in
Uninstall Apps - TenForumsTutorials

Perhaps your script is the same as, or similar to, that suggested by the tutorial.

Best of luck,
Denis

It is!

It is the same as option 12

Sadly, none of this actually worked.

Remove-AppxPackage : The request is not supported.
error 0x80070032: AppX Deployment Remove operation on package
windows.immersivecontrolpanel_10.0.2.1000_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy from: C:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel failed. This
app is part of Windows and cannot be uninstalled on a per-user basis. An administrator can attempt to remove the app from
the computer using Turn Windows Features on or off. However, it may not be possible to uninstall the app.
At line:1 char:73
+ ... re-object {$_.name –notlike '*store*'} | Remove-AppxPackage -allusers
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Remove-AppxPackage], COMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.Rem
oveAppxPackageCommand

I tried running this script as an Administrator and I had no luck uninstalling the apps with this script. I don't know why this is happening. What is this Immersive Control Panel?! I would think this will work to remove the apps, but it does not remove a single app with this method!

Hmm, well that's strange that the script attempts to uninstall that.

This is why I asked if the script was safe because I was afraid that it may attempt to uninstall something important.

Fortunately it did not. But I still don't understand why Windows did not allow the uninstallation for the remaining apps.

It could for example simply refuse to uninstall windows.immersivecontrolpanel but continue uninstalling the remaining apps. But it didn't. Everything remained as it is.

I think this particular script doesn't work at all.

Thank you very much for this. I have used O&O App Buster and uninstalled all the apps except for Store.

One thing I don't understand is why even after restarting the PC why does the Network Connection Broker service still trigger to run in the background?

Also Client License Service (ClipSVC) and Storage Service will also run after 10+ minutes at system startup. Both are set to Manual (Trigger).

I would think that uninstalling all the store apps will not trigger Network Connection Broker and Client License Service to start. But they still do by ritual. Do you think it's fine to disable those services? Don't see the point why they are supposed to be running in the background when I have no store apps installed.