Uninstall Apps in Windows 10  

rdwray said:

-AllUsers gives me an Error 87.

Did you run the command in an elevated PowerShell?

Get-appxpackage -allusers *Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes* | Remove-AppxPackage

I'm missing something and don't know enough to figure out what. Using Option One I've removed several apps but on these three Xbox entries the Uninstall option is greyed out:



Everything in settings for them is turned off. Does that make any difference. I can live with them, I just don't want to.


Thanks in advance for any help.

rdwray said:

This is a new HP PC and I just installed 1803 and guess what, Sticky Notes was gone after the install - go figure

Great news.

Eagle51 said:

Use Option Three and remove them using PowerShell Command. The Xbox apps are provisioned apps, meaning they get install when you add a new user and there is a PowerShell command for that as well.

Powershell got all of them except the Gaming Overlay. Went through all of the commands twice and it's still here. Guess I'll have to go with the Geeks. Thanks for the help.

Edit:

Under Option Three, the BOLD wording needs to be updated from "XboxGameOverlay" to "Xbox GamingOverlay" for them to work.

(To remove Xbox Game Bar app from all current accounts on PC)
Code:
Get-appxpackage -allusers *Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay* | Remove-AppxPackage

( only remove Xbox Game Bar app from new accounts created afterwards)
Code:
Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like "*Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online

And now Xbox is gone.

Hello Clayton,

Are you sure? It's showing as Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay for the package name in PowerShell.

Yes Sir. Look back to my post #421 and it shows gaming and the commands in Option Three are:


(To remove Xbox Game Bar app from all current accounts on PC)
Code:
Get-appxpackage -allusers *Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay* | Remove-AppxPackage
(To only remove Xbox Game Bar app from new accounts created afterwards)
Code:
Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like "*Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –


Once I changed "Game" to "Gaming" that last item was gone. Previously it failed to uninstall. And I was using Cut and Pate from the commands there in Option Three.

I misunderstood, and thought you meant the spacing instead. Option Three now updated and corrected.

Not a problem. I misunderstand a lot of things. Odd no one else has ran into that before. Anyway, glad it's fixed. Candy Crush Saga and Twitter still show up as installed in The Store, but everything is gone from there too. Now I wait to see if any of it comes back in a future update.


Have a good day and Thanks for being here for us all.