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Last active March 28, 2017 09:40
Removing consumer apps and undesirable SDKs from Windows and Visual Studio
# caveat emptor, this worked for me, be careful, your milage may vary
# to remove “consumer” Windows Store apps like Weather, Finance, News from Windows 8:
# http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2012/10/26/removing-built-in-applications-from-windows-8.aspx
# remove the apps from the current user account. it will clean up your start screen, basically.
# you will likely see errors when this runs, but it’s still effective
Get-AppXPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
# this removes the apps from the machine entirely