Completely uninstall preinstalled apps on Windows 11

Hugo Legeard 61

Hello,

Being in the process of creating a Windows 11 master image,
I wanted to uninstall the preinstalled apps as it had been done on Windows 10, but it turns out that despite uninstalling the apps in powershell with the command "Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage" as administrator, it turns out that if I create a new user on the machine all the apps are reinstalled on the new user!
Ditto for the initial user, after a sysprep all the apps are reinstalled!
How is it possible ? While the -AllUsers option is specified?

Thank you in advance for your answers,

Hugo LEGEARD.

Rolando George Balzaretti 1 Reputation point

2022-06-09T21:23:03.733+00:00

Thank you for the clarification about the Online syntax.
Could give another example of the whole command once again, this time trying to un-install xboxapp. How would you do it?
Many thanks.
R. George Balzaretti.
Hugo Legeard 61 Reputation points

2022-06-17T14:55:10.007+00:00

Hello,

To uninstall Xbox apps you can use this command:

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where-object {$_.packagename -like "xbox"} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online

Putting stars in the package name argument (before and after the search term) matches all app packages containing the word "xbox".

You can do the same for other application packages, this eliminates the need to retrieve the exact name of the application package.

Best regards,

Hugo LEGEARD.
Vinod Shilwant 0 Reputation points

2023-04-29T05:12:49.1166667+00:00

Can you please share how to remove inbuilt Microsoft store apps when we capture image for our organization through MECM.

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Limitless Technology 39,666 Reputation points

2022-04-01T15:23:09.1+00:00

Hi @Hugo Legeard

To remove an app from new accounts created in future, modify the desired command as follows:

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like "PackageName"} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

Also , Windows 11 has a built-in package manager called winget. It supports uninstalling apps,

Enter the following command: winget list. It will return the list of allapps you have currently installed on your machine.
Find the app you want to remove and type this command winget uninstall

For Example : winget uninstall cortana

Hope this answers your question :)
Thank you.

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Hugo Legeard 61 Reputation points

2022-04-07T09:04:00.593+00:00

Thank you for your reply,

I managed to uninstall the apps for the new profiles with the powershell command you told me.

I just allow myself to re-specify it because there was a syntax error in the "online" option, here is the functional command:

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where-object {$_.packagename -like "PackageName"} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online

At home winget didn't work because I had already deleted it before on the current user, so I couldn't test it.

Thanks again for the help,

Best regards,

Hugo LEGEARD.

Mike Hansen 5 Reputation points

2024-10-06T22:59:51.0766667+00:00

Winget works fine for the current user. It does not seem to kill the app in question for all (new) users. That said, Winget List is a great way to find the package names.
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