But again, great, if you’re a Spotify user. Spotify – I’m not sure if this is always here, or if it was just on the machine I was working with at the time.Which I don’t disagree with – it’s a fine product, if you’re ok with paying the monthly/annual fees. Office – unless you’re actually planning on buying into their ecosystem with Office 365.Movies & TV – again, if you have nothing, this is a half-decent media player (think of it like old Windows Media Player’s love-child), but if you’re seriously into video watching on the computer, you’ll probably replace it with something better.Microsoft Solitaire Collection – well, if there’s one thing everybody has ever done since the dawn of the PC, it’s play solitaire.Groove Music – it’s not a great music player, but it’ll do if you don’t know any better.The Tolerable (but Unnecessary)Īnd here are a few optional ones - I typically remove these from a “business-purpose” or “low-end” machine, but for an average end-user, they’re OK(ish). Hit Escape to dismiss it after panicking “omg wth did I just do to my computer?!?”. Hit the key-combo ‘Windows+G’ to see it in action on your own PC. So I could have, for instance, recorded a real live video of me going into the Settings page and uninstalling all these apps, and you could watch said video after I uploaded it to YouTube, instead reading all this boring text! What a world, eh? I leave it installed), because what it actually is, is a very useful screen-capture tool for recording a video (and/or stills) of your desktop and what you’re doing on it. Honorable mention: the ‘Game Bar’ (possibly sometimes called ‘Xbox Game Bar’), is not on this list (i.e. Do you really check the weather on your PC/laptop? Weather – because that’s what your phone is for, silly.Tips – this may be a personal preference, but I find the built-in tips annoying and useless, so unless you’re brand-new to Windows 10, I say remove it.Unless you still use it… then you’re the reason MS keeps this arcane thing around, and you should #stopit. Skype – dear god please kill this already.Feedback Hub – because Microsoft does not actually care what you think (or I wouldn’t be writing this, would I?).Farm Heroes kill-me-now-with-these-stupid-games.Candy Crush whatever-the-hell-flavor-of-the-year-it-is.Here is my list of apps that I remove immediately with a fresh install. Granted, past versions of Windows came with their own fair share of bloatware/junk, but some of that stuff was REALLY amazing and useful, like the DVD Creator in Windows 7. AKA “Crap that I uninstall immediately after a fresh installation of Windows 10.” It’s frankly mind-boggling how ridiculous it is that Microsoft continues to include junk like this with what is supposed to be “their best OS ever”.

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