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CTOnews.com January 3 news, foreign science and technology media Gabrielsieben webmaster recently for semi-embedded use requirements, the need to use a Win10 device to specifically deal with CAD applications. Therefore, many additional functions of the Win10 system are completely unnecessary.

When he inquired about the relevant information, he found that although there were many third-party tools or Internet scripts that could be used to uninstall pre-installed applications in Win10, he found that he could use the following system native command to uninstall these pre-installed applications without running the above tools.

Note: this command is very "lethal" and may affect your daily use. Therefore, it is recommended to be used on virtual machines and non-main devices, especially when the system is reinstalled without data.

If the above precautions are confirmed, CTOnews.com users can follow the following steps to try:

1. Open PowerShell as a system administrator

two。 Enter "Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage" (this command applies only to Win10, and it is strongly recommended that you do not try it on Win11, for the reasons below).

3. Ignore all error reminders that the installation package cannot be uninstalled.

The blog shares a list of apps that only install CAD software after the cleanup is complete. After running the command, the user can see only multiple Windows folders, Microsoft Edge, and settings applications in the application list. It is as clean as some stripped-down systems.

After using this command, Microsoft Store and many pre-installed applications will be uninstalled, but the system components such as Windows Search, Timeline, Action Center, and so on will work properly.

If CTOnews.com users are worried that third-party tools may bring some back doors and other problems, then this is a very good system native command. Once again, however, it is recommended to operate on the virtual machine to see which applications will be uninstalled and whether it will have an impact on usage. If you are sure to operate on the main equipment, be sure to make a good data backup.

With regard to this order, foreign science and technology media Hacker News also has related questions and answers:

Q: does this command apply to Win11?

Win11 is much more dependent on AppX than Win10 and is likely to rely more on it in the future.

From the point of view of executing this command on the Win10 platform, there is not much "side effect", but if the command is executed on the Win11 platform, it is very likely to cause many Win11 system functions to fail.

Q: will this command affect other important installation packages such as .NET Frameworks, VCLibs, and so on?

A: they are also deleted after the command is executed. Although their names sound like core components of the system, they can actually work without them.

In my experience (Gabrielsieben webmaster), .NET packages (in Appx, don't be confused with unpackaged "classic" .NET Frameworks) and VCLib are mainly used in Microsoft Store applications and Desktop Converter Bridge applications (Win32 in Store packages), so if you don't use Microsoft Store very much, it won't have much impact on you.

Take this device of Gabrielsieben webmaster as an example, which is mainly used to run Steam, FreeCAD and Fusion 360. it can work without other important installation packages such as .NET Frameworks, VCLibs and so on.

Q: can I undo the operation after execution?

A: it is technically achievable, but it is very difficult to operate in practice. It is better to reinstall the system or restore the previously set restore point than to restore it.

If you want to try to recover, you can follow these steps:

1. Open PowerShell as a system administrator

two。 Enter "Get-AppxPackage-allusers | foreach {Add-AppxPackage-register" $($_ .InstallLocation)\ appxmanifest.xml "- DisableDevelopmentMode}" (without "")

After running this reinstall command, get the update through Microsoft Store and restart. The Gabrielsieben webmaster did recover after execution, but the weather app will show a lack of Edge WebView2 (but a download link is provided).

Q: will security be reduced after the implementation of this order?

A: this cannot be evaluated. This command only uninstalls Microsoft Win10's pre-installed application, reduces attack points, and may also improve security.

You will lose many libraries that are primarily used to run the Windows App Store application (and the application itself), but should not affect Windows Update and Windows Defender.

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