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Not having to see the tiles clutter up my start menu when looking for something else. Not having them be reset as the default app, etc. Its personal choice is all. I don't want them there cluttering things up so I removed them. I just clipped and pasted the commands in from Brinks tutorial. Not all that hard really. Not having the Uninstall option locked out would make it all that much simpler though.
Agreed. In addition some apps auto-start at log on whether you have ever used them or not. Paint, Edge and Skype spring to mind. Although I do use Edge so I don't care about that one.
And they are massive and getting bigger - the apk for Paint is now more than 600MB (it takes 300MB+ on x64 when installed) which is prettry large considering the size of the whole ISO for something that I'll never use but takes CPU anyway. Paint is the worst example but all these apps are bloated - you only have to compare download size of games from the MS store to, er, anything else.
They can be compacted quite efficiently (I get nearly 90%) using compact.exe but that is another story really. It should be automatic as (especially) people who buy small 32GB tablets may not think of doing it and they shouldn't auto-start if you never once used them.
In some cases, I agree with you. For example, Windows folder size for a W10 Pro, 64-bit v1803 PC:
In other cases, I agree with winactive. Windows folder size for a W10 Pro, 64-bit v1809 PC:
The content of the "Windows" folder are not manually managed on either of the PCs.
That's pretty much what I see on my clients' PCs/laptops as well and still don't know why the Windows folder size fluctuate in size.
The chances are that you are correct, but as I've stated earlier, the content of the "Windows" folder is not managed manually.
The "Windows" folder size is probably impacted by the the type of PC at hand. The 1803 PC is a business machine, meaning that pretty much only business software installed. The 1809 PC on the other hand has non-business apps, in addition to business software, pretty much testing various apps prior to using/recommending them.