How to get rid of Candy Crush Soda Saga and other Windows 10 Start Menu junk for good!

[3s-gtech]

No, should be just the once.

[Arthur]

also im using the script posted by 3gstech and it seems to mount and unmount the image 6 times is this normal?

No, should be just the once.

What if the .wim has six different images inside though?

[Norphy]

Like 1709 does...

 

Education

Education N

Enterprise

Enterprise N

Pro

Pro N

[3s-gtech]

What if the .wim has six different images inside though?

 

What madness is this?!

 

Not tried 1709 so didn't know that! Certainly don't remember it in my testing, but I haven't done any since last May!

[LukeC]

so i have ran this script and found the windows store and photo app doesn't open as there not installed? but yet other apps that are whitelisted work fine has anyone else came across this?

[Arthur]

so i have ran this script and found the windows store and photo app doesn't open as there not installed? but yet other apps that are whitelisted work fine has anyone else came across this?

Yes. It's a known issue.

 

For Windows 10 v1709 you need to keep the Microsoft.Xbox.TCUI and Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider apps to avoid breaking the Windows Store and Photos apps.

 

Either whitelist those two apps or all of the Xbox apps depending upon your requirements.

Edited January 19, 2018 by Arthur

[mullet_man]

Yes. It's a known issue.

 

For Windows 10 v1709 you need to keep the Microsoft.Xbox.TCUI and Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider apps to avoid breaking the Windows Store and Photos apps.

 

Either whitelist those two apps or all of the Xbox apps depending upon your requirements.

 

For pupils we pull out everything but ran into an issue with jpegs not opening so I've used SCCM to get the old photo viewer back. Seems to be working so far.

 

I haven't tested 1709, is log ins any quicker over 1703?

[Hybrid]

Morning guys,

 

Just trying to run the script from post 158 and I'm getting batted back with these errors each time.

 

Get-WindowsImage : The parameter is incorrect.

At Z:\ISOs\w10fall\removeapps1.ps1:58 char:9

+ Get-WindowsImage -ImagePath "$ImagePath" -ErrorAction Stop | ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( [Get-WindowsImage], PSArgument

Exception

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Dism.Commands.GetWindowsImageCommand

 

I have tried it with just the install.wim in the directory and with:

SW_DVD9_Win_Pro_10_1709.1_64BIT_English_Pro_Ent_EDU_N_MLF_X21-67518.ISO

 

Any ideas what might be going on here? Hopefully something totally obvious.

 

Cheers.

[Arthur]

Morning guys,

 

Just trying to run the script from post 158 and I'm getting batted back with these errors each time.

 

Get-WindowsImage : The parameter is incorrect.

At Z:\ISOs\w10fall\removeapps1.ps1:58 char:9

+ Get-WindowsImage -ImagePath "$ImagePath" -ErrorAction Stop | ...

Is Z:\ a network drive? If so, copy the entire 'w10fall' folder to a local drive and then run the script again.

[Hybrid]

Nah it's a local drive mate.

[Arthur]

Nah it's a local drive mate.

Which version of Windows 10 are you running the script on?

[Hybrid]

Which version of Windows 10 are you running the script on?

 

The machine I'm running the script on is a Windows 7 box with the Windows 10 ADK.

[Arthur]

The machine I'm running the script on is a Windows 7 box with the Windows 10 ADK.

You're going to need to run it from a Windows 10 PC.

 

Windows 7 is missing some of the PowerShell cmdlets used in the script.

[Hybrid]

You're going to need to run it from a Windows 10 PC.

 

Windows 7 is missing some of the PowerShell cmdlets used in the script.

 

That could be part of the reason then. I'll give it a whirl and get back to you next week.

 

Have a good weekend.

[jmak]

I'm just revisiting this - thought I was going mad when the image mounted 6 times. I must have left it running while I did something else last time.

 

 

Last time I used it, 1709 was a fairly new thing. Now that there are a significant number of updates, I'm looking for the best way to deploy updates. Is there a straightforward way to add them into the wim or is it better to add a task in MDT? I have a wsus server if that helps.

[Arthur]

Last time I used it, 1709 was a fairly new thing. Now that there are a significant number of updates, I'm looking for the best way to deploy updates.

@BKGarry's suggestion in your other thread is probably going to to be the quickest/easiest method.

[jmak]

A thing I've noticed: I imported the install.wim created from the latest version into MDT. There's only one file in the DeploymentShare, but in the workbench there are several OSs listed. I called mine: Win10_Edu_x64_1709_01_install.wim and listed I have:

Windows 10 Education in Win10_Edu_x64_1709_01_install.wim

Windows 10 Education N in Win10_Edu_x64_1709_01_install.wim

Windows 10 Enterprise in Win10_Edu_x64_1709_01_install.wim

Windows 10 Enterprise N in Win10_Edu_x64_1709_01_install.wim

Windows 10 Pro in Win10_Edu_x64_1709_01_install.wim

Windows 10 Pro N in Win10_Edu_x64_1709_01_install.wim

 

Why Microsoft? Why? My workbench wasn't exactly empty and now it's full of stuff I don't want.

[SWC]

Hi guys

 

Working on creating a new image to be deployed in our college over the summer. I have created an image on a VM and ran a powershell script to remove these unwanted apps. Works fine on the image and i capture it fro deployment with SCCM. When the images deploys to a physical machine and i log in as a down user the apps have reappeared. Windows 10 Educatioon version 1709.

 

I used 1607 previously and didn't have any issues like this

 

Any ideas how i can kill these off for all users

[free780]

Run the script as part of the Deploying task sequence.

[mullet_man]

Run the script as part of the Deploying task sequence.

 

Yep this is how we do it. I need to work out if the latest update 1803 as an upgrade will keep the removed apps.

 

Or as I use a configmgr task sequence for upgrades I could use the script again after the upgrade has completed to remove the apps again actually I would think we would need to do this as I guess 1803 will introduce some new apps that no one ever uses.

[talksr]

I thought I would post this since I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else on this forum.

 

One of the most annoying 'features' of Windows 10 are the tiles that are automatically added to your Start Menu for apps such as Candy Crush Soda Saga, Twitter, Minecraft, Flipboard etc. Since the apps aren't installed until a user clicks on the tile you can't run the usual PowerShell commands to uninstall them since they aren't present in Microsoft's Windows 10 images.

 

Thankfully there is a surprisingly simple solution to prevent these tiles from appearing in the first place. In the group policy templates for build 10586 (a.k.a. 1511) there is a new policy called "Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences". After the policy has been enabled the aforementioned tiles will no longer appear (unless of course you have intentionally installed Candy Crush or any of the other apps).

 

[b]Computer Configuration » Administrative Templates » Windows Components » Cloud Content » [color="#FF0000"]Turn off Microsoft consumer experiences[/color][/b]

 

 

Before

 

 

After

 

 

To prevent the tiles from appearing without using group policy add the registry value below.

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent]
"DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures"=dword:00000001

 

or

 

REG ADD "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent" /v DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f

 

or

 

   Disable consumer features (Candy Crush etc.)
   1
   REG ADD HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent /v DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f

 

Hey, so glad you mentioned this.

 

I can't seem to find the Cloud Content folder within my group policy. Is there any reason for this? I have a server 2012 setup.

I have checked the policy at another school with server 16 and they do have a Cloud Content folder.

[mrwoberts]

You're going to need to update your PolicyDefinitions (ADMX) GPO templates.

 

Here is a link to the 1709 admx templates

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=56121

 

However, now that 1803 has been released, it makes sense to either grab the definitions from an installation of 1803, or wait for the release of 1803 admx templates.

[Arthur]

I can't seem to find the Cloud Content folder within my group policy. Is there any reason for this? I have a server 2012 setup.

You will need to update your group policy templates. Download the latest from here...

 

www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=56121

 

Do you already have a central store setup? If not, check the following article...

 

https://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0001339

 

Edit. Beaten by @mrwoberts.

[talksr]

You're going to need to update your PolicyDefinitions (ADMX) GPO templates.

 

Here is a link to the 1709 admx templates

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=56121

 

However, now that 1803 has been released, it makes sense to either grab the definitions from an installation of 1803, or wait for the release of 1803 admx templates.

 

You will need to update your group policy templates. Download the latest from here...

 

www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=56121

 

Do you already have a central store setup? If not, check the following article...

 

https://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0001339

 

Edit. Beaten by @mrwoberts.

 

Thanks both, I do have a central store.

Is there any way I can tell what version I currently have installed?

[Arthur]

Is there anyway I can tell what version I currently have installed?

For the templates or Windows?

 

Version usually doesn't matter. It's better to always have the latest and overwrite the existing templates.

Edited May 3, 2018 by Arthur