Windows 10: what apps should not be removed (breaks installation)?

ok then just run

compact.exe /compactos:always

Takes a few minutes.

 

haha forgot office ill prob put that into secondary tho i don't use it very much

 

You probably want to leave the store (and calculator) but any of the ones above can be removed with no problem. I leave mail, skype and weather as I use them.

You can re-install any you want from the store which is why uninstalling the store is probably unwise.

They do get reinstalled when you upgrade but you can just run the script and uninstall them again. It saves ~ 1GB which depending how small your SSD is might be useful.[/quote] do i have to go and delete the app folders now?
this did not free up space

 

You don't need to delete them manually and changing authority if WindowsApps directory to delete them usually breaks things.

I can't remember exactly as all mine are deleted at the moment but when you delete apps with the Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage it moves them from C:\Program Files\WindowsApps to C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Deleted. They get removed from there either when you reboot, or run disk cleanup (I can't remember which now).

I might do another clean install later in which case I'll check it.