Windows apps have been a hot topic on this site since the release of Windows 10. The native apps shipped with Windows cover a lot of grounds: they add native support to edit text, look at images, browse or edit videos. While they ensure that Windows supports a wide range of file formats and functions just after the Windows installation, they are not without controversy.
Most Windows users have many native Windows apps that they love and some they do not use or never touch. This time and time was re -tested when Microsoft tried to push new apps such as Cortana or 3D builder into the ecosystem.
Many of them can be uninstalling directly from the running user system, but it may depend on your location or configuration .. Special programs, such as O&O Appbuster, improve the process, for example to remove batch uninstall options or unlocking apps that Windows does not want to remove you.
When it comes to this apps, businesses have to face difficult decisions. Is there a special app required or can it be? Users may not have the right to remove apps on their own, and business sometimes wants to ensure that a certain app is not available.
Till now, it used to be with the powerrashel script. These can remove the apps from an installation, but it is not the most straightforward in processes and things can be wrong.
This process can change with the release of Windows 11, version 25h2 later this year. The new feature update for Windows 11 will introduce a new policy that the administrator can configure to remove some apps from the system.
called Remove the default Microsoft Store Package from SystemThis provides a list of apps that you can remove from the Windows system once you are capable. You find it under Windows Components> App Package Payment. It all takes enabling preference and check the apps that you want you have gone through the user system.
Any change you have made here has also been written in the Windows Registry. You find the registry key here: Hklm Software Policies Microsoft Windows Appx refovedefaultmicrosoftstorepackaces
Windows 11 adds one to each selected application, the package of the application is the family name. This is probably only a few time ago, before this functionality is applied to the trickling tool for easy management.
In the closing, this new policy option should improve the process for system administrators that manage many Windows PCs. Instead of relying on Powershell, they can configure the new policy to block the apps on the system of the employees that they do not want on them.
Now you: Do you remove those apps that come preinstall with your operating system? Or do you keep them, but ignore them? Any app that you use regularly and will never be removed? Feel free to leave a comment below (through Patch My PC,
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