Uninstall Apps in Windows 10  

Brink said:

As a workaround, you could temporarily make the standard user an administrator account, sign in to that account, run the remove for all users command again to see if it may remove them now for the account, and afterwards change the account back to a standard user.

Well that finally worked, that's was a good idea! Now i feel clean again xD

This I'm afraid may sound like a dumb question, but, is there a reason that one would want to delete the MS Apps for all users versus just for yourself. I have a laptop running Windows 10, 1909 and I am the only user. Other than "Default" and "Public" and I really don't who they are nor do I care for them to be on my laptop

OK, so I see from the post right after the response from Brink to my question, that there seem to be difference (correct?) between the scripts required for 2004 and (I assume) 1909 and below. Are the scripts given on page one of this tutorial for use with 1909 and below? This "grasshopper" is still learning the ins and outs of Windows 10, and being one of the "seasoned" citizens here, I'm not sure I have enough time left to even partially master this OS.

Hello,

First post on TenForums. I recently switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10. I uninstalled the traditional desktop apps I didn't need through Control Panel and now I would like to uninstall some of the preloaded modern-style apps. However, I am new to the concept of Windows apps and I'm trying to understand the basics before messing up the system. I hope I'm not off topic on this thread. Anyway, this is what (I think) I know so far. Please correct any dumbness.

1 - Provisioned apps are the modern-style apps shipped with a specific Windows distribution and which are not system apps. They are installed from the provisioning packages to the user profile the first time the user logs in.

2 - Uninstalling from Settings App removes the app from the profile of the current user only.

3 - Using Get-AppxPackage to get the package full name and feeding the result to Remove-AppxPackage does exactly the same as point 2 above.

I would also be grateful if you could help with the following and/or point me to the right tutorial or documentation page:

4 - Here (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...-in-windows-10) I found that provisioned apps are installed at %ProgramFiles%\WindowsApps. Somewhere else I read that the app's per-user data is stored at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages. Is all this correct? If so, it looks very similar to many desktop applications, with main files at %ProgramFiles% and settings somewhere under %USERPROFILE%\AppData.

5 - What's the path of the provisioning packages?

6 - The Settings App shows that some apps are really tiny in size. As an example, Xbox console companion appears to be only ~10kB. I guess this is only the size of the user data and does not include the actual app. If so, how can I completely uninstall the whole app?

7 - Provisioned apps get installed to the user's account "when the user logs in for the first time". Does it mean they are not installed to the built-in local user accounts? What would happen if I had an Admin user with which I never logged in and which I only invoke from a standard user account to run elevated tasks? Would such an account get the provisioned apps installed?

8 - Suppose I created only 1 user on my machine. Will it make any difference adding the -AllUsers parameter to the Remove-AppxPackage cmdlet?

9 - If you uninstall an app using Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers it won't be possible to restore it. If you try to, all built-in apps will be broken (summary from post #109 in this thread). Is this still true in 2004?

10 - How are apps downloaded from the Store handled? Are they installed in the same folder? Are they available only to the user who installed them?

11 - Checking the Event Viewer I see that Windows Update regularly downloads and installs updates for the apps. Will it continue to do so if I uninstall an app for my account only? Do I have to remove the app from all user accounts to stop receiving updates?

12 - What is the advantage of removing the provisioning package from the mounted image using Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online cmdlet? Does it help to free up space if no user on the machine will ever need the app? Also, the Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage help page (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pow...?view=win10-ps) shows a -AllUsers switch... what's the meaning of running the cmdlet for all users?

Sorry for the long post and thanks a lot for any help,

Mark