HEY! What's up guys! Jerry here; aka, Barnacules!
Now I'm usually well known for making incredibly long videos, on YouTube; and a lot of people complain about it.
But today, we're going to go the opposite direction.
I'm going to create an incredibly short video showing you guys how to remove those pesky Windows Store applications installed on Windows 10.
That Microsoft will not allow you to remove.
Now when you go into settings and you open up apps and features you're going to notice a list and you can sort it in a couple of different ways.
But you're going to run across these apps that say 'Microsoft Corporation'.
Right here.
And you'll notice that you can't uninstall it. The uninstall button is greyed out.
It just does little animation; can't move it or uninstall it.
But if you click on another program; there you go you can click the uninstall button
So why did Microsoft make it so that we can't uninstall these applications; and the problem is there's quite a bit of them
there's Maps, Messaging. There are so many apps in there that I personally don't want on my box and
Microsoft seems to keep installing more.
So I'm going to show you guys what you gotta do.
The first thing you need to do is open up
Powershell
So to open Powershell just click on the start menu and type 'powershell'.
And there you have it, right-click on it though, and say 'run as administrator'
You really want to run it as administrator because you need that privilege
to be able to uninstall the applications.
So to get a list of all the packages that are on the box
just type 'get app x package', and hit enter.
That's going to show you all of the packages that are installed on the box
but that's a lot of information, so we want to narrow it down.
Let's say we want to remove the maps application. So if I move this out of the way
we got Maps right here
You got 'move' and 'uninstall' but anyway, it's called 'Maps', so we're going to pull up the Powershell window here.
We're going to run the same command you can just hit 'up' arrow as the shortcut key.
I'm going to go ahead and put a '|' at the end of it, and then I'm going to do 'findstr maps'.
It didn't find anything. Well, it's case sensitive
so we're going to upper case maps and
and there it is those are the lines that contain the word 'Maps'.
Now what you want to get is the full package name. See this right here where it says 'full package name'
That's the one you want so grab that whole package name with your mouse drag and then right click to copy and then we're going to
type as instead of 'get' we're going to type 'remove app x package'.
And then at the end, we're just going to do '- package',
and then we're going to dump the name. Now watch. I'm going to drag this down.
So you guys can see it down here in the corner, and we're going to push enter here and you're going to see maps disappear. Are you ready?
[Musical Impression] "Dun dun da dadun dada da". And... wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, wait for... BAM!!
It's gone!!!
So now what you have to do is repeat that same step for any of the other applications you want to remove,
from the system and the Windows Store;
now I will mind you that some of them will not remove,
you can actually remove the Windows Store itself too; but I don't recommend doing that because it could limit some of your abilities later on
but if you try to remove stuff like Cortana, of course it will tell you 'no' even though it shows up in that list,
and that's because Microsoft embedded Cortana much deeper in the operating system, so that you and I could not remove it.
Microsoft really wants to steal our data and Cortana is the best way to get it,
so of course they're gonna FIGHT to keep that,
now I will be having some videos in the future showing you guys how to mitigate that using your router
or using other software to prevent Microsoft telemetry and some of your private data from being sent to Microsoft.
So guys keep an eye out on the channel.
If you're brand new here go check out some of my other videos,
I do a lot of stuff on Windows 10, technology, 3D printing,
carving, racing, simulation, how to program computers, pretty much anything in the nerd genre,
and I also have a live stream every morning at 8:30am over on Twitch.TV/Barnacules
Now that's 8am Pacific Time just so you guys know I keep forgetting, you know it's the whole global thing,
but you guys will have a lot of fun if you come over there.
I talk about literally everything that I can think of in the morning right after waking up and having my coffee with you guys,
also thank you for all your support over on patreon.com/barnacules. You guys have been absolutely amazing!!
With your support I'm allowed to create more videos like this and do more live streams,
and dedicate more of my time trying to make content you love.
So guys, it's your computer, keep on fighting the power.
You do what you want with your computer and tell Microsoft to go to hell
and I'm going to keep on giving you guys tips and tricks, on how to circumvent their systems; also head over to
@Barnacules on Twitter, I usually post there with the hashtag #techtalk,
with all of these little pictures and, and what I just showed you in this video I actually also Tweeted to social media
long before the video is published. So guys I hope that covers everything, if you have any questions leave them down
in the comments, or you can come over to Tweet me.
Alright guys. Have a good one,
and until next time.
Hey Microsoft. I choose what I want on my computer.