[Tip] Removing the "Contact Support" app (the easy way!)

[Arthur]

I came across the following article today and thought it might be worth posting a link to since there have been a lot of threads about how to remove this app in the past and no real solution...

 

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2017/03/22/removing-contact-support-app

 

The question is fairly simple: How do you remove the “Contact Support” app from Windows 10 1607? If you remember back to the original Windows 10 releases, this wasn’t possible – the app was considered a system app and couldn’t be removed. That changed with Windows 10 1607, although not quite in the way you would expect: you can now remove the app, but there is a different process needed to do it.

 

TL;DR

 

Run this PowerShell command from within Windows 10...

 

Get-WindowsCapability -Online | Where Name -Like '*ContactSupport*' | Remove-WindowsCapability –Online

 

or

 

... this PowerShell command against an offline Windows 10 image that has already been mounted using Mount-WindowsImage.

 

Get-WindowsCapability -Path "X:\PathToMountedImage" | Where Name -Like '*ContactSupport*' | Remove-WindowsCapability -Path "X:\PathToMountedImage"

Edited March 22, 2017 by Arthur