What's The Easiest Way To Disable The Calculator In Windows

[Olliedawg]

We've got this working, however upon login we get the "This app has been blocked by your system administrator" dialog box, which appears automatically. It seems that calculator likes to auto run in the background?

 

I can't find a registry entry for this app running on startup, any ideas how to disable the autorun - or maybe it's easier to just uninstall the calculator app?

[ThomL]

18 minutes ago, Olliedawg said:

We've got this working, however upon login we get the "This app has been blocked by your system administrator" dialog box, which appears automatically. It seems that calculator likes to auto run in the background?

 

I can't find a registry entry for this app running on startup, any ideas how to disable the autorun - or maybe it's easier to just uninstall the calculator app?

 

Just checking: Definitely the Calculator causing the pop-up? Seen in the applocker event log?

[Olliedawg]

Just now, ThomL said:

 

Just checking: Definitely the Calculator causing the pop-up? Seen in the applocker event log?

Yes 100%, can see an error for the calculator app trying to auto open

[ThomL]

Just now, Olliedawg said:

Yes 100%, can see an error for the calculator app trying to auto open

That seems... odd? Good luck!

 

[Olliedawg]

10 minutes ago, ThomL said:

That seems... odd? Good luck!

 

Thanks... for the time being i'm just uninstalling the calculator app on our exam laptops with, rather than blocking with applocker

 

get-appxpackage *Microsoft.WindowsCalculator* | remove-appxpackage -allusers

 

[Olliedawg]

9 hours ago, Olliedawg said:

Thanks... for the time being i'm just uninstalling the calculator app on our exam laptops with, rather than blocking with applocker

 

get-appxpackage *Microsoft.WindowsCalculator* | remove-appxpackage -allusers

 

Thought i'd add this on too - the above removes the user context

Below removes the package for all future users too

 

Get-appxprovisionedpackage -online | where-object {$_.packagename -like "*calculator*"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage -online