Windows 10: Like seeing Promoted Apps in the Start Menu? You'll love the Windows..

*Ditto
I've also removed that Saga crap but always returned with updates. And of course it remains in my account since it's "owned" by be just out of nowhere.
Only commercial users will be able to remove junk if they pay for it. It's the same way the ads system works.

 

Not to mention all the Lumia apps they've discontinued...

I agree, Microsoft need to provide a way for users to permanently remove apps from their library.

 

Getting back on track. On the plus side. If your quick enough, all the Promoted Apps just need to unpinned, not uninstalled. Wait too long to do it, and they hydrate, and your going to be uninstalling them. If the ones switching from Static to Promoted are ones I was uninstalling anyway, even better. It will be a faster pruning of junk.

 

On one of my systems, the STORE won't even open. The code for these windows apps is so delicate, the slightest thing makes them not work. I've tried off and on for a couple of days to get my STORE working (doing all the reinstall Powershell stuff, creating a new profile, all that). Nothing works. You'd think a company as big as Microsoft would devise a DEAD SIMPLE means of selling you something. I don't think there are two or three people on Earth who understand how those universal apps really work with all the funny hex named folders and registry keys and ties into mysterious .NET stuff. I'm not going to re-install Windows just to get my STORE back. Good riddance, I guess.

 

Tip How to Turn On or Off App Suggestions on Start in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable App Suggestions on Start in Windows 10

 

People told me I didn't know what I was talking about when I posted (on EightForums) that the point of Live Tiles was to show ads.

"And I said: Oh boy. Right again." - 'Let X = X', 'Big Science' by Laurie Anderson

 

The point of live tiles is to show information. Unfortunately, ads are one form of information. Live tiles will let you see some info, without having to launch that App. Local weather info for example. Like just about everything else though, there are up sides and down sides to technology. You can easily turn them off, if you want though.

 

As far as I'm concerned, that was merely MS' excuse/justification/"marketing blurb" for why Live Tiles were introduced.

In earlier versions of Windows, if you needed some random function that wasn't built-in, you installed something to do it.

How much worse would sales of the W8 Series have been, if the MS "marketing blurb" had been, "W8 now with 24/7 Ads on your desktop."?

Still, I haven't seen any Live Tile ads in my W10IP VM, because I eliminated the Live Tiles many builds ago and they haven't returned.

My laptop with W10 Home had a bunch of Live Tiles in the Start Menu (after updating it from W7).
I got rid of them all except for the Weather Tile.

 

I have live tiles turned on and don't get ads. If I remember correctly there is a setting to turn ads on or off.

 

Same here, I have yet to see an Add in an actual live tile. I've seen some in the open App window, but not on the live tile. I think it depends on the App, and how big you make the live tile.