Windows 10: how do I completely uninstall spotify from windows apps? Windows tells me to activate...

I can't believe Microsoft takes so much control away from the user. I don't want your Microsoft Spotify app. I want the app from Spotify's website. I can totally understand why people pirate your OS now, you don't care about the user at all. It is so frustrating to deal with this when I PAID for this operating system to WORK.

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Spotify - did not completely uninstall (faded out in my app list) and will not reinstall either

Hi

I had Spotify on my Lumia 640, which worked well for a time. One day it crashed, so I tried to uninstall and then reinstall to see if it fixed the issue.

Unfortunately Spotify did not completely uninstall. It is listed in my apps, but it is faded out in my app list. When I tab and hold over it there is not the option to uninstall, if I go to the App Store it starts to reinstall it and then stops with a
message stating 'attention required. tap here'.

I would like Spotify back, but to be honest if it's not going to work I'd rather it wasn't there at all. It's very frustrating...!

Has anyone else had the same issue? I would really appreciate your help getting to the bottom of it

Many thanks

Paul

 

Cortana - Spotify problem

So when I tell Cortana to play a song on spotify she does successfully finds the songs but doesn't actually play it. She just brings up spotify without changing the song.

I found this fix:

• 1. Unlink Cortana (in her settings)
• 2. Revoke Cortana app access (via accounts.spotify.com), and while you're logged on...
• 3. Set up an App Password especially if you're using facebook to log in (this may not be neccessary, but I did so just to circumvent all potnetial issues).
• 4. Uninstall Spotify
  
  5. Install Spotify from the Windows Store (I believe the actual cause of the issue is that those of us with the problem probably installed from the Spotify Installer download, rather than
  the Windows Store).
• 6. Launch and log in to the Spotify app with the app password you created in step three.
  
  7. Link Cortana using the app password you created in step three.
• 8. Restart your computer (my Cortana didn't think Spotify was installed until I did so).
  
  9. Enjoy hands-free music browsing!

The problem with this tho is that it only works untill i shut down/restart the PC. After that I need to redo this all again in order for it to work and its really frustrating to do this everytime I open my computer.

 

Spotify


I have just discovered two Spotify entries in the StartUp list in Task Manager.
However there is no trace of Spotify elsewhere in the system.
I went through the registry and deleted every reference to Spotify that could find, although some refused to be deleted.
That made no difference.
The store shows that Spotify is installed. Which is strange.
However I found an entry in the Apps list in Start Menu, clicked uninstall and that cleared the problem.