The fastest way to remove Windows 10 bloatware

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May 9, 2019

Windows 10 has accustomed us to bloatware being bundled all

the time, even when we make a clean installation. No longer is
bloatware a lousy approach of various hardware manufacturers,
but it is also Microsoft’s thing now. While researching for ways to
get rid of Windows 10 bloatware quickly, we found a helpful tool
that does that, called Windows 10 Debloater. It runs PowerShell
scripts but also offers a graphical interface that is easy to use for
less technical users. Here’s the fastest way to remove Windows 10
bloatware:

Step 1. Download and extract Windows 10 Debloater

You need to download the tool that you’re going to use to uninstall
all the bloatware on your Windows 10 PC. The tool is called
Windows 10 Debloater, and it is a collection of Powershell scripts,
which you can download from GitHub. Go to this webpage and
click or tap on the green Clone or download button.

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 Clone or download Windows 10 Debloater

Then, click or tap Download ZIP.

Download ZIP

You should now get a ZIP file called Windows10Debloater-

master.zip. Save it somewhere on your Windows 10 computer or
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device.

Saving Windows 10 Debloater on a Windows 10 PC

After it finishes downloading, extract the contents of the ZIP file.

Step 2. Run Windows10DebloaterGUI.ps1 using PowerShell

Open the Windows10Debloater-master folder and right-click or

tap and hold on the file named Windows10DebloaterGUI.ps1. In
the contextual menu, go to “Run with Powershell.”

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 Run Windows10DebloaterGUI.ps1 with PowerShell

You should see a User Account Control prompt. Choose to allow

the tool to run, by pressing the Yes button.

Running PowerShell as administrator

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The previous action opens PowerShell and a window called
Windows10Debloater. It contains a few different buttons that let
you remove bloatware or revert changes or make some other
optional changes such as disabling Cortana, uninstall OneDrive
and so on.

Step 3. Remove all bloatware from your Windows 10 PC

The first button in Windows10Debloater and the one that

interests us for this tutorial is Remove All Bloatware. Click or tap
on it.

Remove All Bloatware with Windows 10 Debloater

Windows 10 immediately starts to uninstall the bloatware apps

found on your PC or device. If you look at the PowerShell window
from the background, you can watch the progress of the scripts
that are being run.
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 Windows 10 Debloater uninstalls all the bloatware apps

That’s it! Now you can enjoy a bloatware-free Windows 10

experience!

Which apps are removed by Windows 10 Debloater?

According to its GitHub page, Windows 10 Debloater removes the

following apps:

3DBuilder, Appconnector, Bing Finance, Bing News, Bing Sports,

Bing Weather, Fresh Paint, Get started, Microsoft Office Hub,
Microsoft Solitaire Collection, Microsoft Sticky Notes, OneNote,
OneConnect, People, Skype for Desktop, Alarms, Camera, Maps,
Phone, SoundRecorder, XboxApp, Zune Music, Zune Video,
Windows communications apps, Minecraft, PowerBI, Network
Speed Test, Phone, Messaging, Office Sway, OneConnect,
Windows Feedback Hub, Bing Food And Drink, Bing Travel,
Bing Health And Fitness, Windows Reading List, Twitter,
Pandora, Flipboard, Shazam, CandyCrush, CandyCrushSoda,
King apps, iHeartRadio, Netflix, DrawboardPDF, PicsArt-
PhotoStudio, FarmVille 2 Country Escape, TuneInRadio,
Asphalt8, NYT Crossword, CyberLink MediaSuite Essentials,
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Facebook, Royal Revolt 2, Caesars Slots Free Casino, March of
Empires, Phototastic Collage, Autodesk SketchBook, Duolingo,
EclipseManager, ActiproSoftware, BioEnrollment, Windows
Feedback, Xbox Game CallableUI, Xbox Identity Provider, and
ContactSupport.

Bloatware removal scripts are running in PowerShell

As you can see, the list of apps removed is slightly different than
the Windows 10 bloatware that we documented here.

How to revert the process and get all that bloatware back

Not everybody agrees with removing all the apps that this tool
considers to be bloatware. They might include apps which you
want on your system. Fortunately, Windows 10 Debloater also
lets you revert all the changes that you made. To do that, rerun it
and click or tap the Revert Changes button.

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 Revert Changes in Windows 10 Debloater

How to choose which bloatware to remove with Windows 10

Debloater

You cannot choose from the user interface which apps to remove
and which to keep, and that would have been useful to have.
However, you can edit the Debloat Windows file found in the
Individual Scripts folder of the app, and remove from the list the
apps that you want to keep.

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 The file containing the list of apps to be removed

Maybe some users want to keep apps such as Weather, Sticky

Notes or Camera, but want to get rid of all the other bloatware.

Did you manage to uninstall all the bloatware from Windows 10?

Hopefully, you managed to do it quickly and easily with Windows

10 Debloater. Did you encounter any issues during the process?
Did this tool remove all the bloatware apps? When we tested it,
we found out that it did get rid of all the bloatware in Windows 10
with October 2018 Update, but it did not remove some of the tiles
that led to bloatware apps, tiles found on the Start Menu from
Windows 10 with May 2019 Update. What is your experience with
Windows 10 Debloater? Comment below and let’s discuss.

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