Having issues with preinstalled apps on windows 10
We are starting to roll out windows 10 boxes to users and we are having some issues with it. We use ccleaner and remove all the preinstalled apps (example xbox), and it uninstalls but the icon in the start menu is still there and if you click on it, it loads up. How can I get rid of all these apps not only uninstalling but getting rid of the icons in the start menu for all users.
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Is Pandora something you downloaded? I do not have it. Is it in Programs and Features (and also look in Windows Features).
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No I haven't downloaded.. anything after I ran ccleaner I noticed it in the start menu. I just uninstalled it from apps & features but if its like everything else it all comes back when another user logs in. I have uninstalled xbox thru apps & features and CCleaner and its back in the start menu.
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I just ran the command for removing windows store and its still shows.
I do not have the on my machines or client machines. Did the computer manufacturer install this?
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Its a MS surface, so yes
You may need to ask Microsoft Support since nothing else removed it.
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So I just uninstalled several things and I logged in with another account and everything I uninstalled is showing for the other user. Pandora, code writer, Sway, ext...
Sway I have seen, Pandora, no. Microsoft may have installed base things that cannot be removed, or CC Cleaner removal may have damaged things.
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Well if Ccleaner did damage those apps then I would think they would be usable anymore but they are the just magically reappear. How annoying is this doesn't MS realize there OS's are used in business environments. Do you think buying MS licenses and reinstalling a fresh copy would improve this because right now we are just using the OEM that came with it.
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We have another windows 10 box that ccleaner has never ran on before and its behaving the same way and that's a Lenovo desktop PC
First, I go looking and I do have Pandora (Store App). I do not know when that came however. My machine is a Lenovo Laptop. So I was wrong above but I think the app is new.
You probably should contact Microsoft about the Surface and then port the knowledge to the other machines.
Our clients don't bother with these, nor do I. You can remove the icons as well.
You probably should contact Microsoft about the Surface and then port the knowledge to the other machines.
Our clients don't bother with these, nor do I. You can remove the icons as well.
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I have a regular desktop with windows 10 and I attempted to run the remove xbox command that was in the article and it seemed to run with no issue but it didn't uninstall anything
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Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system featuring the "universal application architecture" (UAP); apps can be designed to run across multiple devices with nearly identical code, including PCs, tablets, smartphones, embedded systems, Xbox One, Surface Hub and HoloLens. Windows 10 also includes a virtual desktop system, a window and desktop management feature called Task View, the Microsoft Edge web browser, support for fingerprint and face recognition login, voice-based search (Cortana), new security features for enterprise environments, and DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.0 to improve the operating system's graphics capabilities for games.
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