I’m a big fan of Microsoft Windows 10. From the very beginning I took part of the Windows Insider program and tested build by build. So far this was only the Windows 10 Professional version but when Windows 10 was official released, I got my hands on the Windows 10 Enterprise edition. The first time I was using Windows 10 Enterprise I was a little surprised about the built-in apps which were installed by default. Apps like Microsoft Solitaire Collection, a Weather App and even a Xbox App which you can not even remove.
The following Apps cannot be removed by default (see screenshot below) ; Calendar, Camera, Contact Support, Groove Music, Mail, Maps, Movies & TV, OneNote, People, Weather, Windows Feedback and Xbox.
(no uninstall option when right click on Xbox App)
OneNote, Calendar and Mail are very useful Apps, but by most companies there will always be a Microsoft Office Suite be installed on the device. And that makes these applications superfluous, the removal of these applications must therefore always be an option is my opinion.
How to remove the built-in applications?
The way to remove the built-in applications is pretty easy, it consists of two steps. In step one, you remove the application from the base Windows 10 image so that new users will not get the applications at all. In the second step the applications will be removed for the current user who has already got the applications installed before it was removed from the base image.
Step 1
Open the Windows PowerShell application as Administrator (Run as Administrator) and enter the following command;
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online
That command will display a list of built-in applications with their DisplayName. This DisplayName is needed for the next command. Here is a list of the Built-in Apps with their DisplayName;
Tekst3D Builder = Microsoft.3DBuilder
Calendar and Mail = microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps
Camera = Microsoft.WindowsCamera
Get Office = Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub
Get Skype = Microsoft.SkypeApp
Get Started = Microsoft.Getstarted
Groove Music = Microsoft.ZuneMusic
Maps = Microsoft.WindowsMaps
Microsoft Solitaire Collection = Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection
Money = Microsoft.BingFinance
Movies & TV = Microsoft.ZuneVideo
News = Microsoft.BingNews
OneNote = Microsoft.Office.OneNote
People = Microsoft.People
Phone Companion = Microsoft.WindowsPhone
Photos = Microsoft.Windows.Photos
Sports = Microsoft.BingSports
Weather = Microsoft.BingWeather
Xbox = Microsoft.XboxApp
With the following command you can remove a built-in app from the Windows base image;
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where-Object DisplayName -In <DisplayName> | Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage -Online
Replace <DiskplayName> with the DisplayName of the App, for example;
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where-Object DisplayName -In Microsoft.XboxApp | Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage -Online
After running the command for the app you want to remove you see the output like shown in the screenshot above. After removing the all the apps you want, the first command (Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online) to see if they are all removed from the base image.
Step 2
The second step is to remove the built-in apps that are already installed in the current user profile. For that, run the following command;
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers
This will display a list wat looks like this;
The PackageFullName is needed for the next command, here is the list with the built-in apps with their PackageFullName. Check before removing if the version is still the same;
Tekst3D Builder = Microsoft.3DBuilder_10.9.6.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Calendar and Mail = microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_17.6306.42251.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Camera = Microsoft.WindowsCamera_2015.1064.10.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Get Office = Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.6307.23501.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Get Skype = Microsoft.SkypeApp_3.2.1.0_x86__kzf8qxf38zg5c
Get Started = Microsoft.Getstarted_2.3.4.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Groove Music = Microsoft.ZuneMusic_3.6.13281.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Maps = Microsoft.WindowsMaps_4.1509.50911.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Microsoft Solitaire Collection = Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection_3.4.9241.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Money = Microsoft.BingFinance_4.6.169.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Movies & TV = Microsoft.ZuneVideo_3.6.13251.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
News = Microsoft.BingNews_4.6.169.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe
OneNote = Microsoft.Office.OneNote_17.6131.10051.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
People = Microsoft.People_1.10241.0.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Phone Companion = Microsoft.WindowsPhone_10.1509.17010.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Photos = Microsoft.Windows.Photos_15.1001.16470.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Sports = Microsoft.BingSports_4.6.169.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Weather = Microsoft.BingWeather_4.6.169.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Xbox = Microsoft.XboxApp_9.9.28033.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Run the following command to remove a built-in app from the current user profile;
Remove-AppxPackage -package <PackageFullName>
Replace <PackageFullName> with the PackageFullName of the App, for example
Remove-AppxPackage -package Microsoft.XboxApp_9.9.28033.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
After running this command, the app will be removed and the following dialog will be displayed;
And that’s about it. Your Start Menu should now look a lot clearer 🙂
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Or use Windows 10 LTSB version. This version does not include any apps!
I’m not able to copy any of the content on this page, which makes it more difficult to perform this procedure on my own machines. Is lack of copying intentional?
You can now select the text.
Ok, sorry, but if you aren’t able to copy text from a web page (whether it’s because of JavaScript, or whatever else), that could be the first thing to look into – maybe. 😉 🙂
did you find a way to remove onedrive? seems to be impossible, but surely not?
Disable it via Group Policy. Navigate to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> OneDrive. -In the right pane, double click on policy named Prevent the usage of OneDrive for file storage. -Select the Enabled radio button.
Thanks for sharing!
Does anyone know if updating to a new build will reinstall these apps?
Hello,
Thank you for the great article!
As far as I can see, these are all for 1 user machine. I reckon I can use this to create some group policy to apply it to all machines in the company?
Thank you,
Hi Nonis, If you create a PowerShell scrips you can run it as an startup script configured in a GPO. However, make sure the versions of the applications are the same on all machines.
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Hi Robin,
I used the below command to remove the built-in app,
Remove-AppxPackage -package CortanaListenUIApp_10.0.15063.0_neutral__cw5n1h2txyewy
and I got the below error message,
Remove-AppxPackage : Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CFA, Removal failed. Please contact your software vendor.
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x80073CFA)
error 0x80070032: AppX Deployment Remove operation on package CortanaListenUIApp_10.0.15063.0_neutral__cw5n1h2txyewy
from: C:\Windows\SystemApps\CortanaListenUIApp_cw5n1h2txyewy failed. This app is part of Windows and cannot be
uninstalled on a per-user basis. An administrator can attempt to remove the app from the computer using Turn Windows
Features on or off. However, it may not be possible to uninstall the app.
NOTE: For additional information, look for [ActivityId] 5d89b054-53ef-0001-78df-8d5def53d301 in the Event Log or use
the command line Get-AppxLog -ActivityID 5d89b054-53ef-0001-78df-8d5def53d301
At line:1 char:1
+ Remove-AppxPackage -package CortanaListenUIApp_10.0.15063.0_neutral__ …
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : WriteError: (CortanaListenUI…__cw5n1h2txyewy:String) [Remove-AppxPackage], IOException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DeploymentError,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.RemoveAppxPackageCommand
Can you please help me out.
Yup, no solution for this (which makes any sense). The best we can do for Cortana, at the moment, seems to be via Local Group Policy (Run… gpedit.msc).
Navigate to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Search -> Allow Cortana (Disabled).
Below it, there’s “Do not allow web search”, as well – to stop the insanity of having Windows Explorer look things up on the Internet (real geniuses employed at Microsoft, the sly bastards). For bonus points, the Windows Search Service can be set to Disabled, to prevent the Indexing Service from raping your hard drive(s), whenever it feels like it. Searches will still run, albeit slower.
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