Windows 10: Issues with uninstalling default apps - 09.04.16

I finally migrated to W10pro today(09.04.16) from 7 just to get this free upgrade offer and I'm trying to get rid of some of the default apps. I did read tutorial on it on here, but I think it's not entirely relevant anymore, I'm guessing it's after applying latest update from MS.
When I'm trying to uninstall app from power shell, I do have this message



What I'm doing wrong here? Isn't that the way to do it?

:)

 

Uninstalling default Windows 10 office apps. Did anyone ever get a solid answer on this issue?

Referencing this thread:

Window apps comes back after Deleting

I am having the same issue. The machines I'm working on are brand new Lenovo X1 Carbon's. I have three of them that I'm working on at the same time. All of them are setup with offline accounts NOT connected to a work domain. Once I got through the initial
Windows 10 setup I ran all updates on the machines. Once that was finished I went to the Apps & Features page to uninstall the following:

My Office App

Linked In App

Microsoft Office Desktop Apps

OneNote App

Skype App

Then I went through Powershell to make sure there were no remaining Microsoft.Office apps remaining on the systems. The reason we do this is that it causes issues when we do put the machines on our domain and use our Office Professional Plus 2016 install.
After our OPP2016 is installed and activated it will cause the license key to deactivate because it is confused as to which version of Office to use.

Once all that is done we enable the local Administrator account and sign. Now all those apps that were previously installed are right back in the Administrator profile. This does the same thing once the machines are added to the domain and an end user signs
in with their domain account. All the apps are still there.

How can I permanently get rid of that stuff?

 

Issues with Default apps on Windows 10.

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Please use this tutorial :
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...dows-10-a.html

Use Options Two.

 

Thx but as I've said. I did exactly that and I ended up with message on the screenshot.

 

It's actually hardly worthwhile bothering to do it (my opinion). Why?

1. Each major build upgrade will replace them. Probably 2 are coming as 'Redstone', perhaps the first in July or so, I forget.
2. If you use an in-place upgrade repair install (see tutorial) to fix e.g. broken apps, start menu, non-responding taskbar etc etc again the apps will be replaced.

What do they cost? Some space on Win 10 start menu (which I don't use as Classic Shell, unlike the Win 10 start menu which fails dismally, properly represents a hierarchical start menu with subfolders), and some space on disk. Oh, and there's a scheduled task updating them, plus maybe a little background time updating their data unless you disable it.

Beware: you can break your apps with Powershell commands (once used to fix them), and have to do an in-place upgrade repair install to fix that (since build 10586).

Your screenshot is somewhat unreadable - better to use the icon to the left of the video icon.

 

Thx.
As a matter of fact I didn't thought about updates reinstalling apps But you are right. It's pointless to do it. I wanted to get rid of them as now I have just 120gb SSD as my system drive and to save some space thus not having to buy larger one for a time beeing.
Can you share the way to have Classic Shell please? As I've said I'm new to W10 so it would save me a lot of time for searching this.
Thx*Smile

 

It's not new- been around for some years, at least pre-Win 7.
You can also launch apps from it, and still use the Win 10 menu with a hot key combo.
Highly configurable. I prefer to have it expanding:



(Oh, you can customise the start button as with most of these).

I can understand you wanting to save space on your SSD (I got 256Gb when I ordered this).

Note you can install programs on D: for example- If D: is on a HDD, slower to load, but useful for e.g. non-critical large games or large progs.

Relocating Documents, Videos folders etc is possible, but people get into a bit of a mess sometimes with that. Personally, I keep my data as far as possible on my HDD, and leave Documents, Videos etc to be filled with folders by programs I install. Think - security and backup strategy.

Do use disk imaging. Win 10 can be unexpectedly fragile for some. Macrium Reflect (free) + its boot medium + external storage is often recommended here.

Note by default System Restore is off in Win 10. You may like to turn it on, but will take space on your SSD. Some prefer to rely on disk imaging alone.

 

Thx for that*Smile I am just tired already from configuring this thing.
I do have separate mechanical HDD for data, but sometimes I'm just messy and live default setting from programs which usually are set to install everything on C:\

 

What I've found is that having developed a configuration I'm pretty happy with, I've kept that through versions of Windows and different PCs. I've used Laplink's software several times to transfer programs, and so kept the same basic file structure, start menu structure and basic partition structure for a good few years. I.e. once done and demonstrated as survivable through various crashes (I've almost never lost data from the 90's on since my 1st laptop), it's copied from PC to PC.

Thus configuring Win 10 didn't take me a lot of time.