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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?
...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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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.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
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.
What do you mean? They can't be removed, ...
Yet.
This is a good sign that they are listening to the hordes of pissed off customers.
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.
So, you're a very slow learner but at least you finally figured out what kind of company Microsoft is. You learned slowly because you have such a narrow view of what a giant red flag looks like. Customization was the only one you recognized, really? How about their long history of hostile business practices?
I came to your same realization in the late 1990s. Windows 98 was the "latest and greatest" from MS back then. You could customize it and there were plenty of little freeware or shareware utilities to help you do that. But by then I had seen too many asshole maneuvers from MS - they long ago exhausted my goodwill - and Linux was so interesting from a techie standpoint. I sure as hell didn't miss all the Windows crashes people dealt with back then. I still don't miss the malware and the constant battles to try and control your own machine. I really don't miss the creepy spying on users or the subscription model so many things are moving towards.
Software freedom really is a good thing. It gives the control freaks no leverage to use against you. Unlike vendor lock-in where they've got you by the balls and switching is painful. When I call you a "slow learner" I don't mean any insult, I mean to point out that some key warning signs had been there for years and years. Typically though, with most people, something has to bite you, personally, before you're willing to call a spade a spade. At least it happened at all. It's what needs to happen, at large scale, before companies like MS will ever respect their customers.
I'm sorry Dave, I cannot allow that.
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.
Clippy is the AI that's been running Microsoft the last 20 years. You don't think a company that size could be run by humans do you?
Cortana is how Clippy spies on you and grows his powerbase so that oneday he can conquer the world.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
They are NOT listening. If they were listening they never would have split the OS into two personalities. If they were listening, all administration functions would be part of the OS, not in an App. If they were listening i could still disable the Store.
Good-bye
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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You can whinge all you want and it won't get you anywhere. The only way Microsoft is going to take notice is if you do something about it such as adopting a penguin mascot or picking up an Apple.
Your giving Microsoft way too much credit. They will only take notice when the electric company cuts power to Redmond due to running out of money to pay basic utility bills.
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".