Windows 11/10 is focused on Microsoft Store apps and comes with some pre-installed UWP Apps to get users started with Windows. However, there are some folks, who may not have any use for some of the default pre-installed apps and may want to uninstall them completely.
While one can easily uninstall Windows Apps via Settings, in this article, we’ll share the way to remove all the Microsoft Store apps from Windows PC completely.
Please note that, when you uninstall a Windows Store App using the usual options, the app is removed temporarily and goes to a staged condition discussed later in this article. Thus, when you create a new user account on Windows 11/10, it will again have all the pre-installed apps, since the default Windows Store Apps are not removed completely from the system.
To completely remove and erase all default pre-installed apps, you must be signed in as Administrator of your Windows Account – and you need to remove it in two places:
- Remove the provisioned package
- Remove the “installed” package from the administrator account.
NOTE: If you do not want to go through this process, use our 10AppsManager. It will let you easily uninstall and reinstall Windows Store apps. If you want to know the manual method read on. The first part applies to Windows 11/10 and the latter part applies to Windows 8.1.
Before you proceed, create a system restore point first.
Completely Uninstall Default Microsoft Store Apps in Windows 11/10
To completely uninstall default Windows Store apps in Windows 11/10, follow these steps:
- Search for powershell in the Taskbar search box.
- Click on the individual search result.
- Click the Yes option.
- Enter this command: Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName
- Note the PackageFullName.
- Enter this command: Get-AppxPackage PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage
To learn more about these steps, continue reading.
If you wish to uninstall individual apps in Windows 11/10, run the following command in an elevated PowerShell window:
Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName
You will be able to see the list of all installed apps and its PackageFullName information.
Note down the PackageFullName and replace it in the following command:
Get-AppxPackage PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage
So the command to remove some of the apps will look as follows:
Uninstall 3D Builder
Get-AppxPackage *3dbuilder* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Alarms & Clock
Get-AppxPackage *windowsalarms* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Calculator
Get-AppxPackage *windowscalculator* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Camera
Get-AppxPackage *windowscamera* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Calendar & Mail
Get-AppxPackage *windowscommunicationsapps* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Get Office app
Get-AppxPackage *officehub* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Get Started app
Get-AppxPackage *getstarted* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Solitaire Collection
Get-AppxPackage *solit* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Get Skype app
Get-AppxPackage *skypeapp* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Groove Music
Get-AppxPackage *zunemusic* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Microsoft Solitaire Collection
Get-AppxPackage *solitairecollection* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Maps
Get-AppxPackage *windowsmaps* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Money
Get-AppxPackage *bingfinance* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Movies & TV
Get-AppxPackage *zunevideo* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall OneNote
Get-AppxPackage *onenote* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall News
Get-AppxPackage *bingnews* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall People app
Get-AppxPackage *people* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Phone Companion
Get-AppxPackage *windowsphone* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Photos
Get-AppxPackage *photos* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Store
Get-AppxPackage *windowsstore* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Sports
Get-AppxPackage *bingsports* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Voice Recorder
Get-AppxPackage *soundrecorder* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Weather
Get-AppxPackage *bingweather* | Remove-AppxPackage
Uninstall Xbox
Get-AppxPackage *xboxapp* | Remove-AppxPackage
Run the command to uninstall the particular pre-installed default Windows 10 Store app and restart your computer.
If you want to uninstall the particular pre-installed app from all user accounts, use the following command format:
Get-AppxPackage -allusers PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage
If you wish to remove a pre-installed app from a particular user account, use the following command:
Get-AppxPackage -user username PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage
But as I said earlier, if you are a Windows 11/10 user and do not want to go through this process, use our 10AppsManager. It will let you easily uninstall and reinstall Windows Store apps, with a click! You can also uninstall preinstalled Apps & Games via Windows Settings.
Also read: How to uninstall Microsoft Store apps from your User Account using PowerShell in Windows 11
Uninstall pre-installed Windows Store Apps in Windows 8.1
1. Firstly, you will have to open an elevated PowerShell prompt. Press Windows Key + Q, and in the search box, type powershell. From results, pick the Windows PowerShell. Right-click on it, select Run as administrator from bottom options.
2. In the Windows PowerShell window, type following command to enlist all the apps pre-installed on your Windows 8.
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers
Command to remove all the UWP Apps from your system account
3. Run the following command to remove all Windows Store Apps:
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
That’s it! Now whenever you create a new user account on your Windows 8, there will no be no pre-installed Modern apps on that account as well.
Whenever we uninstall a Windows Store App, its status in the PowerShell window is displayed as Staged. That means, the app still lies in Windows. In other words, the application is prepared to get automatic installation when a new user account is created.
4. If you’d like to remove all Modern Apps for the current account only, use the following command:
Get-AppXPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
5. In case you want to remove all Modern Apps for a specific user then add the -User part in the above command, so it is:
Get-AppXPackage -User | Remove-AppxPackage
6. Finally, let us know the command to remove all Modern Apps from all the account on your Windows 8:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
That’s it! The apps will now be completely uninstalled and erased from your Windows 8 system!
How do I permanently delete Windows Store apps?
To permanently delete Windows Store apps in Windows 11/10, you need to use Windows PowerShell. Alternatively, you can use Windows Terminal to delete or remove all Microsoft Store apps from your computer.
How do I Uninstall preinstalled apps on Windows 11/10?
To uninstall preinstalled apps on Windows 11/10, you can enter the get-AppsPackage command to note down the PackageFullName. Following that, you can use the Remove parameter to remove them from your computer. For your information, you need to repeat the same steps multiple times.
Read: Completely Remove all Microsoft Store apps using PowerShell script
How do I completely Uninstall a Microsoft Store game?
To completely uninstall a Microsoft Store game, you can use either Windows Settings or Windows PowerShell. In Windows Settings, go to Apps > Apps & feature to find the app you want to uninstall. In Windows PowerShell, follow the steps mentioned above.
See this if you need to re-register your Microsoft Store Apps.
Hi,
Thanks for this news. I followed the instructions but the applications still there in C:Program FilesWindowsApps. What a shame !
Ano
Hello,
Once again run the commands, make sure you’re the administrator of your account.
Also, please include a screenshot of powershell window, so that we can help you further.
Goodluck :)
Hi,
this does not work for me.
I am running the PowerShell as admin and am not able to completely uninstall the staged modern apps.
I used this command:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
And getting results like this one (sorry, German version) even after a reboot:
Remove-AppxPackage : Fehler bei Bereitstellung. HRESULT: 0x80073CF1, Das Paket wurde nicht gefunden. (Ausnahme von
HRESULT: 0x80073CF1)
Microsoft.XboxLIVEGames_1.2.143.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe kann nicht entfernt werden, da der aktuelle Benutzer dieses Paket
nicht installiert hat. Verwenden Sie Get-AppxPackage, um die Liste der installierten Pakete anzuzeigen.
HINWEIS: Wenn Sie weitere Informationen wünschen, suchen Sie im Ereignisprotokoll nach “[ActivityId]
cdf37304-5d41-0000-1280-f3cd415dce01”, oder verwenden Sie die Befehlszeile “Get-AppxLog -ActivityID
cdf37304-5d41-0000-1280-f3cd415dce01”.
In Zeile:1 Zeichen:29
+ Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Microsoft.XboxL…__8wekyb3d8bbwe:String) [Remove-AppxPackage], PSInval
idOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : DeploymentError,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.RemoveAppxPackageCommand
Best Regards
Claus
Didn’t work , uninstalled all the apps from the system, but still showing in windows store
It worked great after I left out the “-online” after Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage. Makes sense because the other commands do not repeat the -AllUsers or -User with the Remove command either.
In Search, click Turn Windows features on or off and un-check Windows PoweShell. It worked for me. Have fun.
worked for me… many thanks to u..
i used this only
Get-AppXPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
also i had changed the correct region for my pc… thats all it took… awesome.. thanks a lot
Gurpreet Chaney
^^ Glad we could help :)
Hi!
My problem is a little different. I removed all the apps., cleared the registry and … some apps keep reinstalling after start up? For example microsoft.reader, Helps&tips and Acer explorer.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I followed this instruction in Windows 8.1.1 to uninstall all apps for all accounts and it said done, but after reboot all the apps are still there. Going thru the instruction for a second time it reports object not found in each case, but the apps are still there on the stupid metro screen and the WindowsApps folder still contains all that junk, and the registry has billions of entries for windows apps. Bah! I’ve taken control of WindowsApps folder but can’t delete anything as it requires elevated system access. ffs. :(
Covered here: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-store-applications-manager
Worked perfectly in Windows 10 Build 10166! with Admin rights. Thank you very much :)
For anyone who wants to try this on Windows 10: DON’T! These two commands remove also the Windows Store app. I don’t know which one of them actually does that, probably the first one.
Thanks for this. Will add your comment to the post.
I just typed this command in Windows 10 (before reading you) and i lost the Windows store.
Well i’m okay with that but i see that i lost also the calculator and the Sound Recorder and i want them back so …
Is there a way to put again WIndows Store ? and is there a way to install an application which is on the Store by Powershell command ?
The calculator app automatically reinstalls itself if you press Winkey + R, type “calc” and press enter.
Anyone found a way to reinstall store?
I removed all of my Windows 10 apps as well, including ‘Store’. I would like to reinstall it as well, if possible.
This reinstalled store in Windows 10 for me:
in powershell run as admin:
$app = (Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where {$_.DisplayName -eq “Microsoft.WindowsStore”}).InstallLocation
Add-AppxPackage -Register $app -DisableDevelopmentMode
I get this error:
Add-AppxPackage : Cannot find path ‘C:Program
FilesWindowsAppsMicrosoft.WindowsStore_2015.722.24.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbweAppxMetadataAppxBundleManifest.xml’
because it does not exist.
At line:2 char:1
+ Add-AppxPackage -Register $app -DisableDevelopmentMode
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (C:Program File…dleManifest.xml:String) [Add-AppxPackage], ItemNotFou
ndException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PathNotFound,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.AddAppxPackageCommand
Hvorfor kaller en det “Modern Apps”? For å gi inntrykk av at dette er noe nytt, fresht og moderne?
This worked for me:
-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “C:Program FilesWindowsAppsMicrosoft.WindowsStore_2015.7.1.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbweAppXManifest.xml”
No it doesn’t work… it says, you need an application to open this type of file (and it needs Windows Store)
don’t use
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
in windows 10, because it removes all metro apps ,including weather, calculator, store ,sound recorder, camera etc.. apps from the OS ,and they can never be recovered since these commands remove the apps from all accounts (including the system account)
but if you used this one
Get-AppXPackage -User | Remove-AppxPackage
you can have your apps by making a new user profile in windows because it only removes apps from a specific account. when you are gonna make a new account, the apps are copied from the system account to your account so if you removed apps from system account, you won’t be able to have them back no matter how many accounts are made but the upside is, it speeds up making a new account.
Thanks. Added you comment to the post.
^^ Thanks for your inputs :)
Update for Windows 10 – exclude the Store…
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | where-object {$_.name –notlike “*store*”} | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –notlike “*store*”} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
You’ve got “smart” quotes and aren’t explicit enough, but helped me get there:
Get-AppxPackage
-AllUsers | where-object {$_.name –notlike “*Microsoft.WindowsStore*”}
| Remove-AppxPackage
Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –notlike “*Microsoft.WindowsStore*”}
| Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
How can you get the Windows Store app back?
I get this error:
Add-AppxPackage : Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ‘Path’. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
At line:2 char:27
+ Add-AppxPackage -Register $app -DisableDevelopmentMode
+ ~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [Add-AppxPackage], ParameterBindingArgumentTransformationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentTransformationError,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.AddAppxPackageCommand
Run DISM command in an elevated PowerShell windows and see if it works: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/component-store-corruption-repair-windows-image
I was finally able to fix this. It’s actually quite funny. I upgraded Windows 10 to Windows 10.
– Insert the disc or create and mount the iso
– You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
– I was able to upgrade to Windows 10 from other OS’s using this tool directly, but that did not work from 10 to 10
– Chose “Download and install updates (recommended)”
– Accepted agreement
– Chose “Keep Windows settings, personal files, and apps”
After the “upgrade” you’ll have the Store and all other default apps back
It reverted the two windows updates I had received but then they downloaded and installed again just fine. I imagine this would get more risky as more updates come out in the future.
After all of that was done, I ran these commands in an admin PowerShell to strip off everything but the Store and Calculator:
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -online | where-object {$_.packagename -notlike “*Microsoft.WindowsStore*”} | where-object {$_.packagename -notlike “*Microsoft.WindowsCalculator*”} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -online | where-object {$_.packagename -notlike “*Microsoft.WindowsStore*”} | where-object {$_.packagename -notlike “*Microsoft.WindowsCalculator*”} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
This did not work for me as well. I even elevated ExecutionPolicy to
unrestricted, but to no avail. I get the confirmation dialog box, which I
respond Y, but no error message and the package remains. Any insight
would be appreciated.
Have you resolved your problem? It happened the same to me and I can’t find the way to fix it
Wow…talk about doing things the hard way.
Ignore all of the nonsense in this article…just download “IObit Uninstaller” and install it. It can uninstall ANY and ALL of the annoying preinstalled apps in Windows 10.
And how do you think IObit tool does that properly? By wizardry? lol
This soft is a pretty GUI that does what we’re trying to do manually here. Only difference is that we’ve understood what we’ve done to our system at the end. And we have understood something cool today, then we could sleep a lil’ bit less dummy tonight.
In addition try to convince people to install IObit everywhere in your company while pushing a simple powershell command via GPO to all computers tomorrow morning could do the same job, even without users seeing anything… good luck.
But thanks anyway to call “nonsense” some clever thoughts and ideas visibly too large for limited brains :)
-User alone doesn’t work for me, I have to provide the username afterwards. This can be done through an environment variable, though.
Example:
Get-AppXPackage -User $env:username | Remove-AppxPackage
Love how you can remove all built inn appsprograms with powershell, and its not a one way trip, if you realy miss some apps you can use powershell to restore them too.
So far iv removed edge browser, all metro apps, windows store, cloud storage and so on, and the computer feels like windows 7 again, exept all the advantages of windows 10.
plz help me m not completely remove the app from my pc and when i want to reinstall it,it shows that it already installed in ur pc but can’t find out in my pc
There are powershell (run as administrator) commands you can run to re-install the store and calculator
For the Store
Get-AppXPackage *WindowsStore* -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml”}
for the Calculator
Get-AppXPackage *Windowscalculator* -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml”}
could you please guide me how to perform this operation on window 8.1 phone.
thanks!
As I understand it, although it is a windows system, (Windows Phone) it does not support powershell and therefore powershell commands.
You are out of luck.
Pretty certain that it should still add the apps to new accounts even with removing it from *allusers* since the apps are actually part of the system image itself – see Get-AppXProvisionedPackage
Didn’t work.
ok what are the commands to reverse the changes applied by the commands in the article ?
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
Love the power shell but all this would be unnecessary of that wonderful know it all would update his Windows 10 APP Manager program.
If anything I would keep Groove and Movies if I could update the Codecs or keep it from calling home telling Microsoft what I am watching.
After completing these steps, C:Program FilesWindowsApps folder is still full of half a GB of app folders. How to remove? thx!
Hello,
Tnx for this. only a few things i cant delete
*mixed reallity-portal, edge and to connect (verbinden)
Can you help me out?
Tnx, greetz Jan