How To Uninstall Windows 10 Pre-Loaded Apps

How To Uninstall Windows 10 Pre-Loaded Apps

 
These built-in apps cannot be uninstalled from control panel but you can definitely uninstall them through other methods. These universal apps can be uninstalled by some simple methods. When following these methods, you should not need to rely upon any third party tool and that's best part of it.

First Method: Uninstalling Apps from Dropdown menu

It is simplest method to uninstall built-in apps in Windows 10. First go to start menu and there you will have to type name of app. Simply right-click on it and then select Uninstall. Although it is easy, all universal apps cannot be uninstalled by this method. It will be done in almost no time and you will get rid of app easily.

Second Method: Using Powershell

Powershell can be used to remove built-in apps in Windows 10. operating system has many uses and uninstalling these apps are made simple this way. Powershell is really popular to uninstall built-in apps and is used by many all over world.

Step 1: On Windows 10 Search Bar, type in Powershell. Right-click on Powershell. Then select Run as Administrator.

Step 2: Type following command: Get-AppxPackage | ft Name, PackageFullName -AutoSize. Then you can see a list of all installed apps. They are all of current users.

Step 3: If you wish to remove any app, in particular, you will have to type following command: Get-AppxPackage *xboxapp

You will have to replace app name and then again use wildcards*. It should be used before and after name of app in Powershell.

Step 4: You will have to wait for a while so that Windows can remove bloatware. Then you will be done and built-in apps can be removed.

These are various methods with help of which built-in apps can be removed or uninstalled from Windows 10. Although you can uninstall most of built-in apps in this manner, you cannot uninstall critical apps.

They are meant to stay in operating system and there is no method to remove or uninstall these apps. Apart from these certain apps, you can remove mostly all built-in apps that are there in windows 10. As for rest of permanent built-in apps, you actually cannot do much but to keep them on your Windows 10.