Windows 10, like most non-open source software, comes with pre-installed bloatware and apps that can't be easily removed. There is no uninstall option to remove these default apps. But having these apps pre-installed costs you a lot. They will consume more battery, kill RAM, and also consume your bandwidth whether you want to have them on your system or not. While Windows 10 hasn't offered an option to uninstall these default apps that come pre-installed in Windows 10, you can easily uninstall these default apps with one line of code in Power Shell. Let's see how to do it.
Step 1 - First, search for PowerShell on the Windows taskbar.
Step 2 - On the PowerShell icon, right click and run as administrator.
3 pass - The blue screen powersehll window will open now.
Now copy and paste the commands provided below to uninstall the selected application you want to remove.
- Uninstall Candy Crush Saga
Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSaga
- Uninstall the Voice Recorder app
Get-AppxPackage * soundrec * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the camera
Get-AppxPackage *camera* | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the Mail and Calendar app
Get-AppxPackage * communi * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the Xbox app
Get-AppxPackage * xbox * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the Bing News & Weather applications
Get-AppxPackage * bing * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the Voice Recorder app
Get-AppxPackage * soundrec * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the 3D application
Get-AppxPackage * 3d * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall Solitaire
Get-AppxPackage * solit * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall Groove, Movies and TV
Get-AppxPackage * zune * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the Photos app
Get-AppxPackage *photo* | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the contacts app
Get-AppxPackage * people * | Remove-AppxPackage
- Uninstall the app for Windows Phone
Get-AppxPackage *phone* | Remove-AppxPackage
Note: - To paste in Poweshell just press Alt + space key + e. A paste menu will appear as shown below. Using this paste the command.
Note that at some point running the command will throw an error saying Implementation failed with HRESULT or another series of error messages. You can forget about these errors without worrying at all, as your application will be removed using the command lines listed above.
How to recover these applications
Suppose you deleted these apps and one day all of a sudden you wanted to delete more apps than you wanted or want to get those default apps back. No problem, here is a one line code to do it. Just paste this code with lines into PowerShell to restore those apps in Windows 10.
Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$ ($ _. InstallLocation) AppXManifest.xml"}
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