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

[Thomas Brand]

Disable the Windows Store from Group Policy when the machine is built.
It will keep most of those applications from showing up, and keep all of 
those applications from updating.

Thomas Brand


On Mon, 29 Jan 2018, Aran M Parillo wrote:

> 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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