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Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable (arstechnica.com)
With the latest Windows 10 build 18262, Microsoft is allowing you to remove apps such as Mail, Calendar, Movies & TV, and the Groove Music app. Ars Technica reports: The ability to remove these apps doesn't really mean much in terms of disk space or convenience, as none of them are very big. The move may be of more interest to corporate deployments; an organization that has standardized on Outlook, for example, might want to remove the Mail and Calendar apps to reduce user confusion.
Elsewhere, the new build also updates Task Manager; an optional column in the Details tab will show which applications handle mixed DPI systems and what API level they use for that support. Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter. This will examine diagnostic data and automatically perform any fixes or reconfigurations that appear to be necessary.
Elsewhere, the new build also updates Task Manager; an optional column in the Details tab will show which applications handle mixed DPI systems and what API level they use for that support. Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter. This will examine diagnostic data and automatically perform any fixes or reconfigurations that appear to be necessary.
And automatic updates.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
ditch the whole UWP idea entirely for all anybody cares, HTA with new branding is still the design failure it always was.
You're thinking of Electron - Electron is HTA with new branding. It is literally nothing more than a copy of Chromium with a built in website, just like HTA.
Please remove Cortana. She's a good girl, but I really don't want her in my machine.
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Win10's interface is an ugly mess. Let users choose the "classic" interface from Win2k and lots of complaints will vanish.
Circumcision is child abuse.
And xbox!
nothing to see here - move along
> Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter.
(user runs troubleshooter)
"I see you have found a way to disable all our telemetric spyware and uninstall all the locked-in crapware... Let me "fix" that workaround for you and download/reinstall it all again"
I really really wish the pendulum would swing back to the operating system to just being an operating system. The kernel, drivers, window manager, desktop environment, etc., but basically no built-in apps, personal assistants, advertising, activation, or any other nonsense unless I want it.
If you want to be innovative with your OS, make it run faster and more securely. Improve your APIs and frameworks to make it easier to develop applications. Make it easier to administer devices in bulk-- and don't make it "easier to administer" by creating some complex proprietary system that anticipates that you're an enterprise customer who can afford to employ a full-time expert of your expensive suite of tools. Make is actually easy. Let owners own their computers again. Let administrators administer their computers. Stop forcing updates and burdensome "security" restrictions. The OS should serve the computer's owner's needs, not the manufacturer's business interests.
I know, I know... "Use Linux!" When someone can get hardware vendors and software developers to support it, I'll switch to it. I'd love to. I can't.
Here is the removal link
Table-ized A.I.
I am really not interested before that is possible.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Just pointing out, there is no such thing as a non-removable app in Linux. There might be packages that other packages depend on, sure, but in general you can configure Linux whatever way you want, with whatever applications you want. And you can find out what anything running on your machine is actually doing.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Well, it isn't really any closer to usable, I already figured out how to remove them myself. But it will save the others who did and actually use it a few lines in the "remove the crapware again after the updates" script.
Once we get to the point where the OS is actually usable, i.e. where it doesn't waste more time telling MS when I'm on the can than it does doing the work I intend to do, we could actually talk about installing it.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It means a lot in terms of clutter. That translates to a convenience issue.
Microsoft now seem to be copying Apple in terms of apps and integrating with a mobile phone (Android) based ecosystem. They seem insistent on pushing those apps in your face as tiles on the start menu, etc, which is highly irritating.
Personal fanboy, wee.
There are indeed some apps that are non-removable, but the mentioned ones have always been removable using PowerShell.