Remove Advertising and Advertising Apps from Windows 10 Workstations after Creators Update

Mindwatering Incorporated

Author: Tripp W Black

Created: 05/16/2022 at 09:51 PM

 

Category:
General PC Maintenance
Windows

After the MS Creators update, you find MS Windows turned into an advertising and data-mining gold mine.
Note:
This is not a one time thing, most weekly MS Windows update. They will be re-enabled and added on the weekly and more major patch updates. There is too much money on the line to let you keep it off. Besides, they want to make sure you get all the "value" that you can get out of MS Windows. Remember, you are the product. That's another way of saying, you're their slave.

How can you remove some of these apps?
(Note: We do this twice, once for for "me" and once for "all uf us" - appx packages, and provisioned appx packages.

Hide the menu stuff:
Settings > Personalization > Lock Screen
- Change the background to “Picture” or “Slideshow” from Windows Spotlight.
- Change to Off, "Get fun facts, tips, and more from Windows ..."

Settings --> Personalization --> Start
- Change to Off, "Show suggestions occasionally in Start"

Settings --> Notifications & actions -->
- Uncheck, "Show me the Windows welcome experience after upgrades and occasionally ..."
- Uncheck, "Suggest ways I can finish setting up my devices to get the most ..."
- Uncheck, "Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you ..."
- Uncheck, "Get Office" (app)
- While here, scroll down and uncheck any apps you want to keep, but don't want their notifications.

Folder Adds for MS Stuff
At top of the folder window, click View (tab) --> Options (icon, far right).
In the dialog, scroll down and unchecked "Show sync provider notifications".

Start Menu Live Tiles:
The ability to do a group policy to kill, is removed except for the Enterprise version of Windows 10 now. Removing the "Microsoft Consumer Experience" apps is getting harder and harder.
We can still piecemeal remove components:
- Right click any game tile, and if Uninstall is there, click it. If not, click Turn live tile off.


Get rid of the "suggestions" in the Search bar:
Right click the empty part of the bottom taskbar, Select Search, Uncheck "Show search highlights".


Cmdlets:
Remove unwanted apps.

##Remove All Packages
$appname = @(
"*BingWeather*"
"*ZuneMusic*"
"*ZuneVideo*"
"*King*"
)
ForEach($app in $appname){
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Name $app | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
}

##Remove Provisioned Packages
$appname = @(
"*BingWeather*"
"*ZuneMusic*"
"*ZuneVideo*" "*king*"
)
ForEach($app in $appname){
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where {$_.PackageName -like $app} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -AllUsers -Online -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue }







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