Windows 10: WindowsApps/Deleted folder cleanup

Hi, my Program Files\WindowsApps\Deleted contains 200G of files from an app I already removed.The program is not listed under Apps & features, so I cannot uninstall it.The folders are all owned by System and thwart every attempt at removal.How do I clear this folder? The program in question is Microsoft-SeaofThieves.

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WindowsApps Folder Cleanup

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I Suggest you to take ownership of the folder and attempt to delete the contents of the folder, I recommend you to try the below steps:

Step 1:

Follow the steps listed in
Access Denied or other errors when you access or work with files and folders in Windows.

Step 2:

Check for the article
Disk cleanup in Windows 10

Hope it helps,

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Mithin EJ

Microsoft Community- Moderator

 

WindowsApps Folder Cleanup

Hi,

I've noticed, thanks to SpaceSniffer, that the Windowsapps folder is huge (2,4 Gb). That sounds strange since I don't have that lot of apps running.

I've gained access to the WApps folder taking ownership and there are a lot of old/unused/unknown folders referring to long time gone apps (2 Candy crush folders for 200Mb each??). I've managed to delete one of them (gaining full control) but for the rest
of the stuff it doesn't seem to be quite easy getting rid of them (I'm stuck with no full control permissions).

I've tried "Get-AppxPackage -allusers PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage" command and "dism /online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageNameackageFullName" command in a powershell elevated perm window, both with no luck.

I'm considering to use brute force (from a bootable linux stick) and get rid of the most heavy packages:

Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2018.18081.14710.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.Office.OneNote_16001.10827.20178.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.Office.OneNote_16001.10827.20152.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.SkypeApp_12.1815.210.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c

Microsoft.MSPaint_5.1809.1017.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.ZuneVideo_10.18082.10311.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.ZuneMusic_10.18091.10321.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.XboxApp_44.44.7002.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub_17.10314.31700.1000_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.BingFinance_4.26.12334.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

Microsoft.BingSports_4.25.11802.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe

but to be sure to have win10 boot again I'm asking if there's any problem considering:

- Inside C:\Program Files\WindowsApps the are 239 folders

- if I run "Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName" it returns a list of more or less 90 packages

- if I run "dism /online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages" it returns a list of 20 packages

- NONE of the packages I'm planning to delete are found by the commands above (they are present only in the winapps folder)

I'm working on a win10 installation than comes with no formatting from 8.1 (I've got the idea that this stuff has been layered by the windows releases)

Any suggestion is very appreciated.

 

Trouble deleting a folder

Thanks for the suggestion but it says "delete folder failed for E:\....." for each folder I try.

*Confused

Will I be forever stuck with these unnecessary folders? *Oh Well hwell: