How to Turn On or Off Automatically Installing Suggested Apps in Windows 10
Starting with Windows 10 version 1607 Anniversary Update, Windows will silently automatically download and install suggested apps like Age of Empires: Castle Siege, Asphalt 8: Airborne, Candy Crush Soda Saga, FarmVille2: Country Escape, Flipboard, Minecraft: Windows 10 edition, Netflix, Pandora, Twitter, World of Tanks: Blitz, etc... from the Windows Store without any confirmation by default.
This will happen to both local accounts and Microsoft accounts on the PC while connected to the Internet.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off automatically installing suggested apps for your account in Windows 10.
This will not uninstall suggested apps that were already automatically installed. You will still need to manually uninstall them.
This will not remove suggested apps pinned to Start. You will still need to manually unpin them.
EXAMPLE: Suggested apps on Start
Here's How:
The .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager
SilentInstalledAppsEnabled DWORD
0 = Disable
1 = Enable
1 Do step 2 (enable) or step 3 (disable) below for what you would like to do.
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Enable_automatically_installating_suggested_apps.reg
Download
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.
Disable_automatically_installating_suggested_apps.reg
Download
4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 If you like, you can delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn
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