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.
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?
Janet
4 years ago
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.
Brenda Donovan
4 years ago
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.
Tony
4 years ago
Great tool
Carl D
4 years ago
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.
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 … ?
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. 😉
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?
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.
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.
Great tool
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.
Worked great!!!
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Seems to have worked! Thanks for the tutorial.
Followed instructions, right clicked on script, clicked Run with powershell, powershell flicked on & off. Nada