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    How to Easily Remove Bloatware

    from Windows 10

    By Gavin Phillips

    Read the original article here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/easily-remove-bloatware-windows-10/

    Bloatware is truly awful. Manufacturers fill your shiny new laptop, phone, or tablet with pre-installed
    applications to put an extra dollar in their pocket, leaving you a bundle of oft-useless programs taking
    up space. If it is annoying on laptops with large storage drives, it is downright infuriating finding out
    your 32GB phone storage is 25% full at purchase.

    It is wrong, and we’ve seen some pretty appalling examples of bloatware this year; Lenovo’s
    SuperFish debacle springs to mind. Unfortunately, Microsoft is no saint, either. If you’ve upgraded to
    Windows 10 you may have noted a number of new applications appearing on your system, seemingly
    without your permission. Let’s look at how to ease the pressure on that awful bloating.

    A Brief Uninstall Guide


    While Windows 10 does come with a reasonably large amount of bloatware, it is also relatively easy to
    get rid of it. Microsoft has provided us two options: using the traditional uninstall, or by using the
    PowerShell. First we’ll look at the traditional.

    Bloatware doesn’t feature within the System > Apps & Features list you would normally use to
    uninstall a program. Why would it? Microsoft, and other manufacturers who deliver products with
    bloatware stand to profit from your using them, so making it easy to uninstall isn’t in their best interest.

    The Traditional
    By which I mean, you can right-click the application, and select uninstall from the context menu. This
    appears to work for several apps included in the Windows 10 installation package, such as Money,
    News, Sports, and a few others clogging up your Start menu.

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    "

    Microsoft has made it simple to remove the more cosmetic items attached to Windows 10, but you’ll
    quickly find that not all apps are considered equal. Indeed, those apps Microsoft considers part of the
    core Windows 10 experience will require you to use the PowerShell to hide, or remove.

    Others, such as Cortana simply cannot be 100% removed from your system, despite your best
    efforts. Or rather, you can remove Cortana, but your Start menu search function will cease to work.

    Using the PowerShell


    The PowerShell is an important part of the Windows command line. It forms a command and scripting
    language enabling you greater control over your Windows installation through task automation,
    configuration management, and administrative tools. In this case, we can use the PowerShell to either
    hide, or remove the apps installed with Windows 10.

    First, open the PowerShell command line. Type PowerShell into your Start menu search bar. The
    best match should be Windows PowerShell. Right-click and select Run as Adminstrator. This
    ensures you have control over the entire system.

    "

    Next, we need to decide what you want to remove. The PowerShell can remove any packages
    ranging from the Zune Music Player, to Bing Health and Fitness, to the Microsoft Windows Calculator.
    Not everyone will want to remove each feature, but I’ll list a large proportion of them in a moment.

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    "

    Hiding the Apps

    Entering the following code into the PowerShell will hide each application you enter.

    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.ZuneMusic” | Remove-AppxPackage


    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.Music.Preview” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.XboxGameCallableUI” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.BingTravel” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.BingHealthAndFitness” | Remove-AppxPackage

    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.BingFoodAndDrink” | Remove-AppxPackage


    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.People” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.BingFinance” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.3DBuilder” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.WindowsCalculator” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.BingNews” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.XboxApp” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.BingSports” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.WindowsCamera” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.Getstarted” | Remove-AppxPackage

    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.Office.OneNote” | Remove-AppxPackage


    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.WindowsMaps” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.BingWeather” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.BioEnrollment” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.WindowsStore” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.Windows.Photos” | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage -name “Microsoft.WindowsPhone” | Remove-AppxPackage

    Hiding has the obvious advantage of obscuring irritating bloatware from your view without actually
    deleting it from the system, meaning you can relocate it at any time.


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    Deleting the Apps
    If you truly want to remove everything from your system using the PowerShell, we’ll use a different
    command: DISM. DISM stands for Deployment Imaging Service and Management. The DISM
    command is relatively powerful and can be used to service a Windows system in many different ways.
    In this case, we’ll use it to remove the additional apps from your system.

    This one works a little differently. First, we’ll check to see the entire bloatware spectrum by using this
    command:

    DISM /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages | select-string Packagename

    "

    You should now see a complete list of installed apps. We can now use the package names in the list
    to begin removing them. To remove them, use the following code:

    DISM /Online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:PACKAGENAME

    Where PACKAGENAME is taken from the list we previously generated. As you can see in the below
    image, I’ve chosen to remove the Microsoft Zune Video package. Once the operation completes
    successfully, you’ll need to restart your machine for the code to take full effect.

    "

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    What Does This Do?
    While the Windows 10 bloatware doesn’t actually take up much physical space, it is more about
    exercising control over your own system. Many consider the default apps included in the installation to
    be “garbage” and while this author would agree in some cases, others I cannot see the point of
    removing.

    Watch: 10 Basic Powershell Commands and how to output data to CSV formatting on YouTube

    However you feel, you now have the tools to remove each piece of bloatware yourself. Happy
    obliterating. And if you want to get rid of OneDrive, we’ve figured that out for you, too.

    Are you offended by the apps Microsoft included with Windows 10? Or do you just plain not
    care? Let us know what you think!

    Image Credits: black pliers by Princerko_setionstart via Shutterstock

    Read more stories like this at MakeUseOf.com

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