Compared to previous systems, Windows 10 has much more tools and features for uninstalling both user applications and programs pre-installed in the system. About how you can remove this or that application, and then we will talk. If you include specialized utilities in the list, there are at least five such methods.
How to remove applications in Windows 10 through the options menu?
So, the surest way to uninstall programs is to use the settings section, called directly from the main Start menu, where the application item is selected, and in it there is a line of applications and features.
Next, a list of absolutely all programs registered in the system will appear. How to remove applications in Windows 10? You just need to click on the program icon, and then use the delete button in the block that appears. This technique is good in that after activating the uninstall during the uninstall process, the user will not see any windows of the process and the result of its completion. When the removal is completed, the application will simply disappear from the list of programs.
However, in this way, not all programs can be deleted. Some of them, in particular pre-installed applications of the system itself, will be inaccessible, and the move and delete buttons will be inactive.
How to remove the application from the computer through the "Control Panel"?
In principle, the simpler method of uninstalling user applications with almost the same actions can be called using the standard “Control Panel”, as was done in earlier systems.
In the matter of how to remove applications in Windows 10, the first step will be to call the panel itself. For quick access, you can use the Run menu, in which the control command is written. After that, you just need to go to the programs and components section.
Next, a familiar list of installed programs will appear, from which the desired application is selected and deleted by pressing the appropriate button.
In the list, if we compare it with the one described for the previous case, the components built into the system will not be presented. But you can use the hyperlink to view installed updates, select some update and delete it right there.
Removing uninstalled preinstalled programs using the PowerShell tool and the command line
As you can already see, the first two methods are good in their own way. But neither in the first nor in the second case will it be possible to uninstall the pre-installed standard programs of the system itself. No unlockers will help.
So how can you remove such programs? To do this, you will have to use either PowerShell toolkit or the command line. Out of habit of the average user, this technique may seem rather complicated, however, if you look at the merits, there will not be any special problems.
So, first we use the Run menu and enter the powershell command (you can also apply the search), after which the console must start as administrator.
Consider a situation where we need to uninstall the Evernote application from the Windows Store. First, we execute the Get-AppxPackage command, after which absolutely all the programs from the “Store” will be displayed on the screen.
The list may turn out to be quite large, so it is better to specify the request by writing the line Get-AppxPackage -Name * Evernote * (instead of this application, you can insert the name of any other program to be deleted).
In the information block, you need to copy the line with the full name of the application (field PackageFullName). After that, you can proceed to uninstall.
We enter the Remove-AppxPackage command and after a space we insert the copied full name. In our case, the entire line will look as shown in the image above. Now the matter remains small. Press the enter key, after which the deletion process is activated.
On the question of how to remove applications in Windows 10, one of the solutions can be the command line, which is called up from the Run menu by cmd command (again, the launch must be done as administrator).
To obtain a list of software products, use the execution string product get name. Suppose we need to remove the Word test editor.
First, we filter out the list of office programs. To do this, use the wmic product where "Name like '% Office%'" get Name command.
For a complete uninstall, write the line product where name = "Microsoft Word MUI" call uninstall / nointeractive and press the enter key. The / nointeractive operator is only necessary so that the screen does not display the progress of the uninstall.
Note: if you want to sort by the name of the software developer (vendor), you can use the wmic product where "Vendor like '% Name%'" get Name, Version command (instead of Name, the name of the software manufacturer is entered).
Using narrowly targeted utilities
All these were only tools of the system itself. And to many they may seem quite complicated. An easier way to remove everything that is possible is to use special uninstallers. As an example, consider iObit Uninstaller (a program for uninstalling applications).
To delete custom applications, you can use the list, which very much resembles the one that we see in the programs and components section (you can, by the way, use batch removal of several applications at once).
To uninstall the programs built into Windows, go to the Win Manager section, use the application item in the list that appears, and select the Windows application block in the window on the right. Now just mark the unnecessary applications and press the delete button.
The iObit Uninstaller program is also good because it can scan and delete residual objects, including files, folders, and registry keys. To do this, in the settings, so as not to repeat the actions each time, you need to activate the in-depth scan, and upon completion, select all objects, select the file destruction item and click the delete button.
What to use?
In the matter of preferences, many users are inclined to think that the use of a special uninstaller will be the best option, since in the first two cases the removal may be incomplete, and the second two look rather laborious (and even incomprehensible to many).