[23h2] Windows 11 Removing Terminal from Start Menu

[KieranL]

Hi,

 

We have moved to Windows 11 this summer and changed the student profile over to a local profile.

 

However, currently we have terminal on the start menu and struggling to remove it currently.

 

I have tried using this PowerShell script on the PC Start up script but it does not remove it.

 

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *WindowsTerminal* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

 

Has anyone managed to remove it through gpo, registry or scripting?

 

Thanks,

[Julian]

When removing Windows 11 apps, you need to remove them twice!

Once as an installed application, and once from the repository of installable apps.

Otherwise Windows just reinstall the missing app from the repository, when a user login.

 

try

Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where-Object DisplayName -eq "*WindowsTerminal*" | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online

Get-AppxPackage -name *WindowsTerminal* -AllUsers | Remove-AppPackage -AllUsers

[KieranL]

Thanks. That worked

[mikes]

Sorry to bump this thread - is this true for 24H2?

All I did was

 

Get-AppxPackage *BingNews* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

 

without removing the provisionedpackage part

 

and it seems to have worked - at least no users have the Bing News any more - has 24H2 changed this?

[Brixy]

Not just terminal - wordpad is gone too.

[mikes]

Pretty sure Microsoft have retired Wordpad intentionally

[CHiLL]

Why not leave the icon there but restrict access with AppLocker?