Windows 10 has accustomed us to bloatware being bundled all the time, even when we make a clean installation. No longer is bloatware a lousy approach of various hardware manufacturers, but it is also Microsoft's thing now. While researching for ways to get rid of Windows 10 bloatware quickly, we found a helpful tool that does that, called Windows 10 Debloater. It runs PowerShell scripts but also offers a graphical interface that is easy to use for less technical users. Here's the fastest way to remove Windows 10 bloatware:
Step 1. Download and extract Windows 10 Debloater
You need to download the tool that you're going to use to uninstall all the bloatware on your Windows 10 PC. The tool is called Windows 10 Debloater, and it is a collection of Powershell scripts, which you can download from GitHub. Go to this webpage and click or tap on the green Clone or download button.
Clone or download Windows 10 Debloater
Then, click or tap Download ZIP.
Download ZIP
You should now get a ZIP file called Windows10Debloater-master.zip. Save it somewhere on your Windows 10 computer or device.
Step 2. Run Windows10DebloaterGUI.ps1 using PowerShell
Open the Windows10Debloater-master folder and right-click or tap and hold on the file named Windows10DebloaterGUI.ps1. In the contextual menu, go to "Run with Powershell."
The previous action opens PowerShell and a window called Windows10Debloater. It contains a few different buttons that let you remove bloatware or revert changes or make some other optional changes such as disabling Cortana, uninstall OneDrive and so on.
Step 3. Remove all bloatware from your Windows 10 PC
The first button in Windows10Debloater and the one that interests us for this tutorial is Remove All Bloatware. Click or tap on it.
Remove All Bloatware with Windows 10 Debloater
Windows 10 immediately starts to uninstall the bloatware apps found on your PC or device. If you look at the PowerShell window from the background, you can watch the progress of the scripts that are being run.
Windows 10 Debloater uninstalls all the bloatware apps
That's it! Now you can enjoy a bloatware-free Windows 10 experience!
Which apps are removed by Windows 10 Debloater?
According to its GitHub page, Windows 10 Debloater removes the following apps:
3DBuilder, Appconnector, Bing Finance, Bing News, Bing Sports, Bing Weather, Fresh Paint, Get started, Microsoft Office Hub, Microsoft Solitaire Collection, Microsoft Sticky Notes, OneNote, OneConnect, People, Skype for Desktop, Alarms, Camera, Maps, Phone, SoundRecorder, XboxApp, Zune Music, Zune Video, Windows communications apps, Minecraft, PowerBI, Network Speed Test, Phone, Messaging, Office Sway, OneConnect, Windows Feedback Hub, Bing Food And Drink, Bing Travel, Bing Health And Fitness, Windows Reading List, Twitter, Pandora, Flipboard, Shazam, CandyCrush, CandyCrushSoda, King apps, iHeartRadio, Netflix, DrawboardPDF, PicsArt-PhotoStudio, FarmVille 2 Country Escape, TuneInRadio, Asphalt8, NYT Crossword, CyberLink MediaSuite Essentials, Facebook, Royal Revolt 2, Caesars Slots Free Casino, March of Empires, Phototastic Collage, Autodesk SketchBook, Duolingo, EclipseManager, ActiproSoftware, BioEnrollment, Windows Feedback, Xbox Game CallableUI, Xbox Identity Provider, and ContactSupport.
Bloatware removal scripts are running in PowerShell
As you can see, the list of apps removed is slightly different than the Windows 10 bloatware that we documented here.
How to revert the process and get all that bloatware back
Not everybody agrees with removing all the apps that this tool considers to be bloatware. They might include apps which you want on your system. Fortunately, Windows 10 Debloater also lets you revert all the changes that you made. To do that, rerun it and click or tap the Revert Changes button.
Revert Changes in Windows 10 Debloater
How to choose which bloatware to remove with Windows 10 Debloater
You cannot choose from the user interface which apps to remove and which to keep, and that would have been useful to have. However, you can edit the Debloat Windows file found in the Individual Scripts folder of the app, and remove from the list the apps that you want to keep.
The file containing the list of apps to be removed
Maybe some users want to keep apps such as Weather, Sticky Notes or Camera, but want to get rid of all the other bloatware.
Did you manage to uninstall all the bloatware from Windows 10?
Hopefully, you managed to do it quickly and easily with Windows 10 Debloater. Did you encounter any issues during the process? Did this tool remove all the bloatware apps? When we tested it, we found out that it did get rid of all the bloatware in Windows 10 with October 2018 Update, but it did not remove some of the tiles that led to bloatware apps, tiles found on the Start Menu from Windows 10 with May 2019 Update. What is your experience with Windows 10 Debloater? Comment below and let's discuss.
Followed instructions, right clicked on script, clicked Run with powershell, powershell flicked on & off. Nada
Lois Brown ·
Seems to have worked! Thanks for the tutorial.
John ·
Worked great!!!
Anonymous ·
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Carl D ·
Nice tool. But, most of the Windows 10 bloat – Candy Crush, March Of Empires, Disney’s Magic Kingdoms, etc. etc. can be avoided altogether by making sure your PC is disconnected from the Internet during the Windows 10 install. And, you need to also make sure the Start Menu live tiles – the blank ones with the little arrows – are turned off (right click > turn live tile off) before allowing Internet access.
Tony ·
Great tool
Brenda Donovan ·
One thing it did was remove ALL the icons from the startmenu. Not just the bloatware ones. Now I have to go get the ones I put there for my use.
Not sure why it would do that. There were no icons from the bloatware there as I had removed them all when I first installed win 10.
Janet ·
Power shell stalls. The program doesn’t complete. It says I am not running as administrator and reverts to running as administrator first, then starts and stalls.
Ron ·
Interesting tool, thanks for writing about it.
Too bad about the shotgun approach. There are a couple of items in the list I’d like to keep, such as Windows Feedback Hub and PowerBI. But then again, since it is PowerShell, we should be able to edit it to remove uninstalls, or to add new ones using the existing ones as models.
The list of removed apps (from github) is handy, but I tweaked it for my own use. I took the list, sorted it, removed a couple of dupes then put it into a (4 column) table for easier reading.
I wonder which OneNote it removes, “Office” or “Windows UWP”?
I wonder what “contactsupport” is?
Marte ·
Boy, what a useful app! I kinda wanted to keep Solitaire, but I can always go get it again. Bye bye digital mulch!
Anonymous ·
Happy to help, Marte. 😉
tazmo8448 ·
It works but my big concern is GitHub being compromised here lately.
Anonymous ·
What do you mean?
erenemi ·
malware inside
tazmo8448 ·
GitHub was taken by ransomware a while back. Not sure if the programs themselves were compromised but the server itself was held for ransom. That is what I meant by being compromised. It was all over the news..hacker news that is.
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Followed instructions, right clicked on script, clicked Run with powershell, powershell flicked on & off. Nada
Seems to have worked! Thanks for the tutorial.
Worked great!!!
Glad it worked. Do not hesitate to subscribe to our newsletter, for more useful tutorials.
Nice tool. But, most of the Windows 10 bloat – Candy Crush, March Of Empires, Disney’s Magic Kingdoms, etc. etc. can be avoided altogether by making sure your PC is disconnected from the Internet during the Windows 10 install. And, you need to also make sure the Start Menu live tiles – the blank ones with the little arrows – are turned off (right click > turn live tile off) before allowing Internet access.
Great tool
One thing it did was remove ALL the icons from the startmenu. Not just the bloatware ones. Now I have to go get the ones I put there for my use.
Not sure why it would do that. There were no icons from the bloatware there as I had removed them all when I first installed win 10.
Power shell stalls. The program doesn’t complete. It says I am not running as administrator and reverts to running as administrator first, then starts and stalls.
Interesting tool, thanks for writing about it.
Too bad about the shotgun approach. There are a couple of items in the list I’d like to keep, such as Windows Feedback Hub and PowerBI. But then again, since it is PowerShell, we should be able to edit it to remove uninstalls, or to add new ones using the existing ones as models.
The list of removed apps (from github) is handy, but I tweaked it for my own use. I took the list, sorted it, removed a couple of dupes then put it into a (4 column) table for easier reading.
I wonder which OneNote it removes, “Office” or “Windows UWP”?
I wonder what “contactsupport” is?
Boy, what a useful app! I kinda wanted to keep Solitaire, but I can always go get it again. Bye bye digital mulch!
Happy to help, Marte. 😉
It works but my big concern is GitHub being compromised here lately.
What do you mean?
malware inside
GitHub was taken by ransomware a while back. Not sure if the programs themselves were compromised but the server itself was held for ransom. That is what I meant by being compromised. It was all over the news..hacker news that is.
good tutorial … ?