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Removing unwanted apps in Win10

ReedRichards
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Re: Removing unwanted apps in Win10

If you right click a Live Tile on the Start menu you can select the option 'Turn live tile off' and, yes, I would have thought that would be sufficient.  Presumably removing it turns it off also?  But this topic is for people who don't want the apps to be there, even if they do no harm and have no impact.
MartyPop
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Re: Removing unwanted apps in Win10

Quote from: HPsauce
But surely you can remove anything you don't want/need/like from the Start menu?  Huh

Well, you would have thought so but at first glance, you can't. However, somebody has come up with yet another convoluted solution of performing what should be a simple task: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/10529-all-apps-start-menu-add-remove-items-windows-10-a.html
HPsauce
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Re: Removing unwanted apps in Win10

I was responding to:
Quote from: MartyPop
they clutter up the Start Menu
in the post immediately preceding mine.  Wink Just the configurable Start Menu, not the "All Apps" list.
nanotm
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Re: Removing unwanted apps in Win10

things like photo's only consume resources if you fail to disable the live tile in my experience you can also disable them from running without uninstalling and even task kill to switch off anything you don't want running, which is in line with the abilities in windows 8.1
uninstalling the default stuff is often problematic down the line when it comes to updates and hotfixes, of course if your doing a customised install for an offline system them none of that is an issue and you can hack away at the OS to thin it down as much as you like, then create a full system image (to use in case of future problems) and then your good to go /
just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
rongtw
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Re: Removing unwanted apps in Win10

Surely you can disable any Auto runs that eat resources Via , Msconfig 
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jonnyollet
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Re: Removing unwanted apps in Win10

You can remove the Windows 10 apps using the Powershell...
http://lifehacker.com/get-rid-of-windows-10s-default-apps-with-powershell-1723381538
MartyPop
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Re: Removing unwanted apps in Win10

Thanks but I tried that method a while ago and some of the Apps that I removed have found their way back  Sad
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Re: Removing unwanted apps in Win10

have you tried this
http://www.howtogeek.com/224798/how-to-uninstall-windows-10s-built-in-apps-and-how-to-reinstall-them...
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