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How to completely uninstall / remove specific inbox appx against win10

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Hi,

Thanks for looking into this. :)

Today I am going to talk about how to completely uninstall / remove specific inbox appx against win10.

I have seen varies blogs and forum articles discussing how to do that.

But most of them are very partial, and will not work if you really follow that.

There is a very key point we may easily miss.

To completely uninstall / remove specific inbox APPX against win10, we need to:

Step 1. use the following power-shell cmdlet to list the exact package name of the unwanted appx.

Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName

Step 2. remove the appx for the current user, by doing this the appx won't appear on start menu:

Remove-AppxPackage -package <PackageName1>

Step 3. after running the cmdlets above, the appx is actually still staged/provisioned in OS. If a new user profile is created, the appx will still be installed for the user. Now, we need to remove the appx from OS perspective, next step is to run the following cmdlet to list the exact package name of the staged/provisioned appx.

Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online

Step 4. remove the staged/provisioned appx:

Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -PackageName <PackageName2> -online

 

The very key thing here is <PackageName1> may sometimes differs from <PackageName2>.

For example,

AppxPackageName: Microsoft.Office.OneNote_17.6131.10051.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
 
AppxProvisionedPackageName: Microsoft.Office.OneNote_2015_6131.10051.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe