Ways to delete programs that refuse to uninstall and pre-installed applications on Windows systems
Article by Blogger @Abderrachidhafsi
We often encounter the problem of not being able to delete a program or application installed either by us or by the system beforehand. There are several ways to overcome these applications, the easiest of course programs to remove the programs from the root, but these programs are known need not talk about, we are here Today we talk about "ways" and not "programs" remove programs and applications without the need to use third-party software, or to transfer. Let's make the relevant programs in these things a last resort.
First of all, I would definitely advise you to make sure that there is an Uninstall option in the program menu in the Start menu of the system and try to make sure that it is not present or can not be deleted through the Control Panel - Ability to delete any program other than some programs and applications that do not allow you to do this easily.
To further confirm that the program can not be deleted normally, you can access the Program Files folder in the system partition on your computer, and then look for the name of the program or the name of the program manufacturer such as Adobe, whose program files do not appear in the external folder, It includes all the programs that are installed on the device, and then you can search for the Uninstall or Uninstall file to make it easier for you without having to follow any of the following tips.
I now begin to talk to those who could not overcome the problem with the traditional solutions mentioned above to move to special solutions and other ways to solve them.
- Remove previously installed applications
We often need to remove pre-installed applications from Microsoft as they take up space in the system and memory, as well as a portion of the CPU effort without opening it even once.
Such as 3D Builder, Groove Music, and others.
If you're talking about Windows 8 and Windows 10, it's not that difficult to remove these applications. Simply access the Metro menu on each system, right-click on the application you want to remove, and choose Uninstall.
If you can not remove these applications or programs in the previous way, you will need to remove them by using the CMD command port.
To do this all you have to do is right-click on the Start button and choose "Command Prompt (Admin)" to open the command window window with the administrator's privileges.
Let's take 3DBuilder as an example.
ppxPackage *3dbuilder* | Remove-AppxPackage
You can remove any of these applications by replacing "3dbuilder" with any of the following words related to system applications.
3D Builder: 3dbuilder
- Alarms and Clock: windowsalarms
- Calendar and Mail: windowscommunicationsapps
- Camera: windowscamera
- Groove Music: zunemusic
- Maps: windowsmaps
- Movies & TV: zunevideo
- OneNote: onenote
- People: people
- Photos: photos
- Store: windowsstore
- Voice Recorder: soundrecorder
If you want to restore these applications, just type in the following command, and all of these apps will be restored.
Get-AppXPackage | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}
- Safe Mode
If a program refuses to be deleted, especially those that start with the system, you can use the safe mode of Windows - Safe Mode to overcome these applications completely remove, because it prevents the system from running these applications in the background, so does not tell you The system determines that the application that you want to remove runs in the background.
You can access Safe Mode via Windows 10 by pressing the Shift button and choosing Restart from the Start menu.
For older versions of Windows, you can turn off the computer completely, then press the F8 button when it is turned on again, and choose Safe Mode from the options, and then you can remove the programs you want in the traditional way through the control panel.
- Back in time
This is another way to do this. You can simply go back to one of the restore points that the system normally saves, so that you get back to the point before installing this program.
You can access the restore list by searching for Restore in the system search box or on the keyboard, and choosing the date and time you want to revert to, which is the date before the program was installed.
- Clean the control panel
There are several programs to do this, but to do it yourself. To stop the system from telling you that the program is running, you can access Windows Registry from the Run menu, which you can open by right-clicking on the Start button, choosing Run and typing "REGEDIT" And then follow this path.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
This path will contain installed programs, and if one of the programs you've already deleted is in this path, just delete the rest of it.
I finish here with the knowledge that there are many programs and even free programs that enable you to finish all these tasks easily such as: Your Uninstaller, Revo Uninstaller, CCleaner, and other programs available either free or trial versions for a certain period or about By buying them directly, they enable you to perform all of the above through a few simple clicks.