Windows 10: PAW : Remove unnecessary applications from Windows 10

Hello community,

I'm building a PAW machine for AD administration, and trying to find out what are the unnecessary applications and services to remove / disable them. The goal is to have a minimal OS machine with only RSAT tools.

I did the following :


1 Removed the following packages :

"*3d*","*camera*","*communi*","*bing*","*zune*","*people*","*phone*","*photo*","*solit*",
"*xbox*","*sway*","*onenote*","*office*","*store*","*skype*","*map*","*soundrecorder*",
"*map*","*WindowsAlarms*","*GetStarted*"


2 disabled the following services :

"BluetoothUserService", "BthAvctpSvc","diagtrack", "diagsvc", "Lotus Notes Diagnostics",
"MapsBroker","fhsvc","TrkWks","iphlpsvc","lmhosts","irmon","SharedAccess","PcaSvc","Spooler","WpcMonSvc",

"RemoteRegistry","seclogon","lmhosts","WerSvc","StiSvc","FrameServer","wisvc","WSearch","AxInstSV","DmEnrollmentSvc",
"DevicesFlowUserSvc_*","PrintWorkflowUserSvc_*","ssh-agent","WiaRpc","TapiSrv","PushToInstall"


3 Uninstall Onedrive

For now, I cannot join the PAW machine to the domain, so trying to find out what's blocking it.

Does anyone have a list of applications and services to remove ?

Thanks in advance.

:)

 

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Remove unnecessary language layout

If you add a secondary language to Windows 10 version 1803 that shares the same base language as the Windows display language, neither language can be removed.

For example: If English (United Kingdom) is the current Windows display language, and you then add English (India) to the Preferred languages list, afterwards neither English (United Kingdom) nor English (India) can be removed from the Preferred languages list.

Note: The most notable effect of having multiple related languages in the Preferred languages list is additional entries in the text input selector. You can remove unwanted language list entries using these steps:

1. From the Start menu, search for powershell.

2. Right-click Windows Powershell in the search results and choose Run as administrator.

3. Type or copy/paste the following command at the command prompt, and then press Enter.

Get-WinUserLanguageList

After typing this command, make note of the “LanguageTag” listed for the language you wish to remove, as you will need it in the next step.

4. Type or copy/paste each of the following commands at the command prompt, and then press Enter. In the following commands, instead of typing <languagecode>, replace it with the language tag you wish to remove, such as en-in for English (India).

$LangList = Get-WinUserLanguageList

$MarkedLang = $LangList | where LanguageTag -eq "<languagecode>"

$LangList.Remove($MarkedLang)

Set-WinUserLanguageList $LangList -Force

 

Remove unnecessary language layout

Hi Rosalie, if you add an additional language for Windows 10 version 1803, which uses the same basic language as the display language of the Windows operating system, then no language can be removed.

For example: if English (UK) is the current Windows display language, and then English (India) has been added to the list of preferred languages, then neither English (UK) nor English (India) can be removed from the list of preferred languages.

Note: The most noticeable effect of having several similar languages ​​in the list of preferred languages ​​are additional languages ​​in the language tab on the taskbar. You can delete unnecessary entries in the list of languages ​​using the following steps:

1. Using the search tool find Powershell

2. Right-click on Windows Powershell, run the program as administrator.

Enter the command Get-WinUserLanguageList + Enter:

After entering this command, copy and write down the "icon" of the language you want to delete (for example, en-in for English (India)

4. Then alternately enter the following commands + Enter, replacing the line <languagecode> with the "icon" of the language from item 3 (en-in in the example) below, the language code should be in quotes:

$LangList = Get-WinUserLanguageList

$MarkedLang = $LangList | where LanguageTag -eq "<languagecode>"

$LangList.Remove($MarkedLang)

Set-WinUserLanguageList $LangList -Force

5. Check the result

Example:

$LangList = Get-WinUserLanguageList

$MarkedLang = $LangList | where LanguageTag -eq "zh-Hans-CN"

$LangList.Remove($MarkedLang)

Set-WinUserLanguageList $LangList -Force