Removing Windows Bloat

[VirtualCam]

While trying to do a little system tuning, I switched over to the "App History" tab of the Task Manager.

I saw that some useless Windows apps had been consuming some CPU and memory resources, so I dug in on how to remove them. This is what I came up with:

Open a PowerShell command window as Administrator and run the following commands (as usual, at your own risk, etc, etc, etc...)

# Removes games
Get-AppxPackage king.com.CandyCrushSaga -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage king.com.CandyCrushFriends -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage solitairecollection -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Removes Office stuff
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Office.OneNote -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Office.Desktop -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Removes Skype
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.SkypeApp -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Removes Microsoft Photos
Get-AppxPackage photo -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Removes Xbox garbage
Get-AppxPackage xboxapp -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Removes Phone Link
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.YourPhone -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Removes Movies & TV App
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.ZuneVideo -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Removes the MS mail and Calendar App
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Remove Mobile Plans
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.OneConnect -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Remove HP Smart
Get-AppxPackage AD2F1837.HPPrinterControl -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Remove Microsoft Sticky Notes
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Remove Bing Finance
Get-AppxPackage bingfinance -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Remove Bing News
Get-AppxPackage bingnews -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Remove Groove Music
Get-AppxPackage zunemusic -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# Remove Sports
Get-AppxPackage bingsports -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage
# 3D builder
Get-AppxPackage 3dbuilder -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

In addition:
Right click on task bar, go to News and Interests, select Turn Off. This turns off the news updates on the lower right hand corner of the task bar.
Right click on task bar, deselect Show People on the taskbar. This turns off the "trending searches" and other garbage you see when you click the search bar.

 

[tigerwillow1]

Just one of the reasons I avoid win 10 whenever possible.