Clean up Window Start Menu - Garbagewear from Updates
As a business, we like to keep all our tools clean and consistent. If some guy from Ford showed up and tried to stick a bunch of ads on the side of our trucks or plaster them with bumper stickers and put GPS trackers on them, we would charge the guy with trespassing and vandalism. Not sure why Microsoft gets away with putting all this garbage on my start menu on my business computers with each update.
I had some powershell scripts that I used back around Win 10 1709, but they don't clear off some of the latest garbage. Anybody have updated scripts to get rid of all this garbage?
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Which OS? (incl patch level and version)
When this garbage came in?
I tested a new install of W10 Ent 21H2 without any config scripts from DA/KACE/Domain just to be sure. One manual one via SDA.
Win 10 Pro, Most unit have been upgraded to 21H2 through Feature Updates. Not fresh installs of Enterprise.
None have been installed via KACE SDA. Have not purchased it for my current company yet. Will soon. Just looking for a solution to get rid of all this MS junk settings until I have a chance to get the SDA later this year.
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at first you should get a list of crapps.
Powershell: Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Select Name, PackageFullName; you can also run this as a CIR to get an overview of what crapps are installed by MS.
( something like: ShellCommandTextReturn(cmd /q /c c:\windows\sysnative\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe (Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Select Name, PackageFullName)) I did not test it, so may be I made a typo or similar.
With that you can create a PS1 with all nessesary Files like:
Get-appxpackage -allusers *NAME OF THE PROGRAM* | Remove-AppxPackage -> this will uninstall the package for all users
and
Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like '*NAME OF THE PROGRAM*'} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online -> this will disallow to reinstall this special program
Yes, much manual but MS wants you to buy ENTERPRISE licenses which don't contain the appstore like that or annoy you. Or both. - Nico_K 1 year ago
Hope this helps! - Nick_F 1 year ago