Microsoft kills the ability to uninstall stock apps from Windows 10

  • 26 January 2017
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Windows 10 comes with a selection of decent stock apps, but if you don’t use some (or indeed all) of them, then really they serve no purpose other than to take up disk space.
 
Microsoft introduced the ability to remove unwanted stock apps in build 14936 for Windows Insiders, but now it’s taken back that option.
 
While you’ve been able to uninstall certain Windows 10 apps since launch, as of October, Insiders have been able to delete apps such as Calculator, Groove Music, Mail and calendar, Movies & TV, OneNote, and Xbox, but that’s no longer the case.
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That's really too bad. I hate bloat, but as long as i can still keep these apps from running in the background I guess it's not all bad.
 
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