[WinPartners] Win 10 pro - can't stop the bloat

Aran M Parillo aran at mit.edu
Mon Jan 29 13:19:42 EST 2018


Dear WinPartners,

Can you share your experience stopping a pre-installed win10 pro machine from continually adding and re-adding bloatware that I repeatedly have to uninstall?

I’ve been googling around and reading and following a few different sites advice but every time I turn around Bubble Witch 3 Saga, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Disney Magic Kingdoms, March of Empires: War of Lords, X-Box live and others keep re-adding themselves.  Not just to the start menu, but they turn up under Apps & features!

Please help me find the magical checkbox that instructs the OS to only install software that I prompt it to install… or did I miss that setting when I was checking out from the Dell store?

I should note that I have 2 different admin accounts on the machine, it seems that win 10 forgets these settings from one account to the next, which I find kind of baffling… and a little desperate.

TIA!
Aran


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