Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

Matt — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:52:34 GMT

Never mind that last comment it doesn't remove the tiles from users that previously logged on, but new ones it does.

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

Matt — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:44:57 GMT

This doesn't seem to affect the domain users, am I missing something here?

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

Ben Hunter — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:02:18 GMT

Thanks for the tip Agressiv2, this is something I have also been doing recently :).

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

agressiv2 — Thu, 02 May 2013 03:51:18 GMT

The PackageFullName Property has version information in it. If you've upgraded any of the packages, this will probably be different.

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.ZuneMusic | Select-Object -Expand PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage

This will work even if the apps have been upgraded.

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

Ben Hunter — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:24:35 GMT

Hi DJ,

The only way to reinstall these apps is to manually install them from the Windows Store.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

DJ — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:29:09 GMT

Excellent, thank you. Out of interest is there any way to reinstall these Apps at a later date? Add-AppxProvisionedPackage only seems to add appx files or unpacked app files, neither of which seem to be available.

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

Venkat — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:37:39 GMT

There is a nice PowerShell script to remove the Windows Store apps in Windows 8

gallery.technet.microsoft.com/.../Remove-Windows-Store-Apps-a00ef4a4

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

Ben Hunter — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:17:50 GMT

Hi MDTUser7,

There is currently no way to update the built-in apps in the image.

Thanks,

Ben

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

mdtuser7 — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:08:52 GMT

This is great, my quesiton is not about removing apps rather updating them in the image. I can not find an option to update these apps in the image for example Update-AppxPackage, is there a way to update these apps in Windows 8 image created in MDT 2012 U1. Almost 15 apps already have updates avilable first time you log on on freshly created Windows 8 image, thanks

re: Removing Built-in Applications from Windows 8

Ben Hunter — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:53:36 GMT

Thanks Joe, That is a very good point.

Fixed now.

Ben.