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Huge rant incoming:

My biggest issue is still not knowing how the (ugh..) fuck to remove Candy Crush Saga from my god damned “downloaded” apps list. On fucking Professional I should not have to deal with that crap. All the instructions on the internet I have found seem to no longer work, and it’s the tiny things that add up that really annoy me. It even shows up in classic shell ...




This project is well-maintained (and extensively forked). It helps you turn all of that crap off.

https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

I actually bought a Windows 10 Pro for Workstations license because I thought it would let me cleanly install Windows with just a power user set of functionality and none of that XBox / Candy Crush rubbish. Turns out that used to be true, but no longer. Unless you can find a very particular range of old build images on the dark recesses of the Internet you have to do a standard Windows 10 Pro install and then "upgrade" it to Workstations.


Its absurd. Even on the City Workstations I sometimes use when volunteering are plagued by candy crush saga!


Here- let me do some powershell magic ;)

Get-appxpackage \microsoft\ | remove-appxpackage #asterisk around Microsoft

Now replace Microsoft with windows.

One of these will also remove the store - so careful/congrats


Right-click...


You can’t do that with the “advertisement packages”. Thanks for trying though ;).


Yes, you can. One of the options in that right-click menu is "turn off suggestions" which is how you turn them off.


In my case that is entirely broken. It just leaves it there. That’s why I’m frustrated. Regardless, it’s inappropriate to even have it enabled for a Professional installation. It’s so stupid.


It is broken as of changes in recent months. Want to know how to remove it and keep it from appearing? Go to the store, install it and then once it's truly installed you can truly remove it. If you don't do this the 'stub' will never disappear. Yes, this is the junk a 100k+ staff company implements now. It's baffling.


Jesus Christ, that’s the kind of shit that makes me dread booting windows now then.


What changes? The monthly patches?




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