Windows 8.1 Apps

[Harry1980]

Hi All,

 

I was wondering is there any way to stop Window Apps from installing each time different users log on to the laptop?

 

I am using a Fujitsu A544 laptop with Windows 8.1 Pro.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Harry1980]

I have tried the following but still no luck.

 

Disable access to, or Turn off Windows Store in Windows 8.1

[scottpowers82]

I would also be interested in learning how to do this. I just recently (as in last week) made our first Windows 8.1 images and, while I have the default profile and Start Screen configured the way I like, I still can not get around the fact that it tries to "install" apps every single time a new user logs into the computer. Any help getting past this would be most appreciated. We are upgrading from Server 2003 to Server 2012 R2 this Summer, so maybe there are some group policies that might help with this?

[ITGuyWestMidlands]

You need to run the two powershell commands on each laptop once. Ideally at the end of your build process...

 

Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

 

Get-AppXPackage | Remove-AppxPackage

 

The windows store app can be disbaled via group policy

[Norphy]

You need to run the two powershell commands on each laptop once. Ideally at the end of your build process...

 

Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

 

Get-AppXPackage | Remove-AppxPackage

 

The windows store app can be disbaled via group policy

@ITGuyWestMidlands is absolutely right that this will stop metro apps from installing at logon but please bear in mind that it will stop all metro apps from installing. You may want to hold fire on doing that, at least until you evaluate all of the metro apps that are there and determine if there are one or two that are useful.

[ITGuyWestMidlands]

http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2013/10/21/removing-windows-8-1-built-in-applications.aspx read this is you are after more granular control. I had away with all of them though

[dubsdj]

How to remove all bundled Modern apps from your user account in Windows 8

useful link..

 

also I found this script which works well in powershell

 

you have to save it as a powershell file and run it on the PC

<#

************************************************************************************************************

 

Author: Frank Trout

 

Purpose: Removes Windows 8.1 RTM provisioned apps.

 

Pre-Reqs: Windows 8.1

 

************************************************************************************************************

#>

 

$AppList = "Microsoft.BingFinance",

"Microsoft.BingFoodAndDrink",

"Microsoft.BingHealthAndFitness",

"Microsoft.BingMaps",

"Microsoft.BingNews",

"Microsoft.BingSports",

"Microsoft.BingTravel",

"Microsoft.BingWeather",

"Microsoft.HelpAndTips",

"Microsoft.Reader",

"Microsoft.SkypeApp",

"Microsoft.WindowsAlarms",

"Microsoft.WindowsCalculator",

"microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps",

"Microsoft.WindowsReadingList",

"Microsoft.WindowsScan",

"Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder",

"Microsoft.XboxLIVEGames",

"Microsoft.ZuneMusic",

"Microsoft.ZuneVideo"

 

ForEach ($App in $AppList) {

$AppxPackage = Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -online | Where {$_.DisplayName -eq $App}

Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename ($AppxPackage.PackageName)

Remove-AppxPackage ($AppxPackage.PackageName)

}