---
title: "Removing bloatware from a new windows machine"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2017/9/29/removing-bloatware-from-a-new-windows-machine.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2017/9/29/removing-bloatware-from-a-new-windows-machine.html"
published: "2017-09-29T13:00:02"
updated: "2017-09-29T13:00:02"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Reminder to self: here’s what you do through powershell: get-appxpackage messaging | remove-appxpackage get-appxpackage sway | remove-appxpackage get-appxpackage commsphone | remove-appxpackage get-appxpackage…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Removing bloatware from a new windows machine

By Roy Osherove September 29, 2017

Reminder to self: here’s what you do through powershell:

get-appxpackage _messaging_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _sway_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _commsphone_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _windowsphone_ remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _phone_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _communicationsapps_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _people_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _zunemusic_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _zunevideo_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _zune_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _bingfinance_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _bingnews_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _bingsports_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _bingweather_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _bing_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _onenote_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _maps_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _solitaire_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _officehub_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _skypeapp_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _getstarted_ | remove-appxpackage

get-appxpackage _3dbuilder_ | remove-appxpackage

Get-AppxPackage _drawboardpdf_ | Remove-AppxPackage

Get-AppxPackage _freshpaint_ | Remove-AppxPackage

Get-AppxPackage _nytcrossword_ | Remove-AppxPackage

Get-AppxPackage _microsoft.xboxapp_ | Remove-AppxPackage

Get-AppxPackage _SurfaceHub_ | Remove-AppxPackage

Get-AppxPackage _flipboard_ | Remove-AppxPackage

(from [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/736tfh/skype_is_officially_bloatware_uninstalled_it/))


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
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