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[Assunta Gergely]

Im writing some build scripts for a Windows 10 build. One thing I want to do is optimise the build for a business desktop. And that means removing all the "toy" Windows Store apps that are reinstalled every time a new user is logged on. Zune Music - I'm looking at you. AppX packages are staged or provisioned in the Windows 10 image, and also installed per user as required. The PowerShell CmdLets are named Get-AppXProvisionedPackage and Get-AppXPackage respectively.

Once you have package names you can use Remove-AppXPackage to uninstall for the user, and Remove-AppXProvisionedPackage to remove from the image, then you run SysPrep and the applications will not be installed for new users of that image.

Most of the package names are fairly self explanatory, but each package can contain multiple applications. It's not obvious that the "toy" Windows Mail application is included in the microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps package. Here is a PowerShell script that cycles through all the packages and shows the applications inside:

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