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Microsoft Allows Users To Remove Some System Applications in Windows 10 Insider Preview 14936 (ghacks.net)
Until now, Microsoft restricted users from deleting many of the system applications on Windows 10. But it is finally giving users that option in the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview -- 14936. From an article on Ghacks:If you open the Mail and Calendar application for instance, you will notice that the uninstall button is active now. This means that you can remove the system app from the machine without having to resort to Powershell or third-party programs to do so. Users who are on the stable version of Windows 10 cannot uninstall system apps using the apps & features menu currently. It seems likely that Microsoft will introduce the feature with the next feature update, codename Redstone 2, which will be out in 2017. Before you start jumping up and down in joy, note that some system applications cannot be removed. While you can uninstall Mail and Calendar, Calculator, Groove Music, Maps, and Weather, you cannot remove Alarm & Clock, Camera, Cortana, Messaging, and others.
When will debian let me remove systemd?
Microsoft's last good OS was MS-DOS 3.3. Everything but IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and COMMAND.COM was optional.
...to figure out why my PC needs an alarm clock or camera app... sure these are useful on a phone but on my desktop they really are not useful.
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It's all those apps that everyone who wanted to remove already removed because the guides how to do it with power shell are all over the internet.
What about:
Contact Support
Cortana
Edge
Feedback
?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
That's nice of Microsoft, giving me a little more freedom to do what I want with MY FUCKING COMPUTER.
That bitch is even more intrusive than Clippy. My Windows 10 box was popping up every 3 minutes trying to redirect me to Bing for some spam or another. I finally figured out how to disable her, turning off just about every feature.
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If Microsoft wants to be applauded for allowing to remove something, they could start by giving users an option to completely remove Metro and have Windows 10 set itself into Desktop mode where it shrinks all the wasted space and tiles and giant buttons that are worthless for people who don't need to use their fat fingers to select elements on a touchscreen.
I wonder what Microsoft will permit users to do next with their own system.
Why would you remove calculator from a computer? That is LITERALLY what a computer was for in the first place.
So is there a button to uninstall Windows10?
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While this isn't ideal, contrast this "feature" with what you get on Google's "open-source" operating system, Android. Want to remove "system applications"? Tough luck, you can't*.
Note that "System applications" includes whatever crap the manufacturer and carrier decided to mark as "system application", not just core applications that are part of the OS - which would be "somewhat" reasonable.
So, before you point at Windows and laugh, remember that the current shining example of mainstream Linux adoption is as bad or worse (in this regard and many others).
* Unless you count gaining root access (not trivial) and using adb to remove the application if it lets you as something viable. Assuming the system allows you to do that. If it doesn't, you can go into recovery mode and nuke the application from the internal memory... probably. Or flash a new image without that application. You know, trivial stuff.
I can't imagine wanting to remove only "Some" of Windows. I'll stick with removing ALL of it. Or of never letting it get on there in the first place.
I try killing Cortana it pops back up. I wished someone would come up with a way to remove or disable this crap my machine.
... then slowly feed it back to you while telling you just how lucky you are.
There was a time when system programs facilitated running application programs, with application being what you used the computer for and an application program being the program you used to accomplish that. With that in mind "system app" sounds like an application program enabling the use of running a system on your system.
Windows use to let you change almost anything you wanted, customize most things.. didn't force you to use anything... now.. it seems like Microsoft is run by old Soviet dictators. So I still have my windows 7 machine, which I'll use until I can't find software that will run on it any more. I've also started using Ubuntu & Mint daily, to see which one I like more. So far it's a tie. But I will not go to Windows 10. They have lost a long time customer in me.
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Open solitaire, *IF a valid Microsoft Account is used.
for removing parts of windows, i usually go too far and remove ALL of it, oops i accidentally formatted to ext4 and installed gnu/linux, too late, buh bye microsoft
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Because I uninstall "Get Office" at least once a week.
Microsoft, to put it bluntly. Just give me a damn OS and let me decide the rest on what I want. Windows 10 has become it's own bloatware with stuff I don't need and when I uninstall something, why in the hell does it come back next big update? Uninstall means I don't want it, not oh maybe you want it now because it's the Anniversary Edition, or maybe you mistakenly uninstalled it.
Who would care to remove the calculator?
I mean this seriously. I don't use it often, as the math I may need to do is more often statistical stuff where it's beyond the calc, but fine in Excel, but there's still plenty of times I use calc.
Who has so little space on their computer that removing calc is going to make a difference? That one sort of feels like, "We need to add one more thing to the list of things removed..." "Cortana! Everyone hates it!" "No, Bob, we can't take that out. We'll let them uninstall calc instead."
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
For those that don't know how to uninstall them, here's the powershell method:
Provisioned apps (the ones that get installed with each new profile, the reason Windows 8+ is so slow in loading a new profile)
Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online
All users apps:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Specifif user apps (can be local accounts)
Get-AppxPackage -User domain\account | Remove-AppxPackage'
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Done and done, weeks ago.
It would be quite nice to be able to permanently delete all trace of all the crapware that comes in Windows 10. For example Candy Crush. I want it totally gone. I don't want to delete it from one account and pop up again in another. Gone. A simple tool that presents this shit in a list with a simple Remove button.
Unfortunately, the most annoying feature I want to remove most often is Windows(tm).
Let me remove Edge and Cortana, then I'd be thrilled. I don't need another browser and I sure as heck don't need a "virtual assistant".
Cortana's failure to start 4 out of 5 times with the OS refusing to boot without said garbage software is why I no longer run Windows. I've been pondering installing Windows 7 just to access older games, but if Microsoft continues to try to force this unwanted malware on me it will only ensure I will never again run later versions of their OS.
Because Windows are how criminals and people who 'lost their keys' get access.
Remember only reputable people(, law enforcement, and social engineers) enter through the doors. And you'd only let reputable people on your system, wouldn't you(, comrade)?