Uninstall Groove Music from Windows 10. Normally, you would remove this default app or disable it completely by simply performing a 2-click operation i.e. Right-click an app in the All Apps list in the Start menu and select “Uninstall”. Sadly, Microsoft doesn’t allow you to easily uninstall this built-in Groove Music app in the usual way.
On my new Windows 10 (v1803) PC there are a bunch of strange pre-installed applications, like Groove Music. These clutter up the Start Menu All Apps list with no hierarchy, just all on the same level. I'd like to organise these icons into separate, logical folders on the Start Menu.Searching online I've found several articles describing how you can (attempt to) uninstall these Windows Store applications, but nothing about how to move or remove the icons. I'm not (yet!) looking to uninstall the app, just to organise the Start Menu into something more logical and less cluttered.In previous versions of Windows, a user could create a folder called (say) Windows Stuff in the appropriate path. Then you could drag the icons into this folder. After acknowledging the UAC prompt the icon has moved.
With these new Windows 10 'Universal' applications, however, I can't seem to do anything with them.Things I have tried:. Navigated to C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuPrograms. No icons or.lnk files for these Windows metro apps are visible. Navigated to C:UsersMEAppDataRoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuPrograms. Likewise, none of these metro apps appear.
Used WIN+R and then shell:AppsFolder to actually view installed applications. Here I can see the ZuneMusic application (see below), but I can neither delete, uninstall or move it. Tried grabbing the icon directly in the Start Menu and dragging it.but a No Entry symbol appears and the icon cannot be moved or removed. If you right-click the icon there is no option to Move or Delete the icon (nor even to Uninstall the application, although this is not what I'm looking to do).How do you get control over the Start Menu in Windows 10 (in a similar way to Windows 7 or Windows XP)?
UpdateAfter many different searches, I stumbled on which suggests organising these strange 'Universal' Windows Store apps may not be possible.The article is 3 years old and from an earlier version of Windows 10 so hopefully (a) Microsoft have fixed this in v1803 and/or (b) any reader knows the technical steps required to organise these applications that the original author did not. Hmm, that is consistent with online searches. I used Classic Shell on an earlier Windows 8.1 PC and this product is to be recommended. Shame is, though, that you will lose the Pinned tiles area of the Windows 10 Start Menu which is rather good and can be customised. Microsoft has done a bad job with these 'modern' Store apps.
Groove Music Windows 10
They're mostly clunky, chunky and awful and have zero customisation options. Some cannot be removed at all and the ones you can remove require steps that will be daunting to the average user.–Nov 9 '18 at 11:13.
Windows 10, the successor to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, comes with several bundled Universal apps. Apps like Photos, Groove Music etc are pre-installed in every user account on your Windows 10 PC. Recently, we covered how you can g at once. Today, we will show how to remove individual apps.RECOMMENDED:To remove a single app at a time from Windows 10, you need to open an elevated PowerShell instance first.To run it, open the Start menu (press Win key on the keyboard) and type Powershell. When it comes up in the search results, right click on it and choose 'Run as administrator'. Or you can also press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open it as administrator.
Opening PowerShell as administrator is important, otherwise, the commands you run will fail.First, let's see which apps you have installed in Windows 10. Type the following command: Get-AppxPackage -AllUsersYou will get the following output:There, note the PackageFullName value for the application you want to remove. For example, let's remove the Solitare Collection app. Its full package name is as follows: Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection3.2.7240.0x648wekyb3d8bbweNow run the following command: Remove-AppxPackage Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection3.2.7240.0x648wekyb3d8bbweThis will remove the bundled Solitare Collection app.Repeat this step for all apps you want to remove and you are done. See also.RECOMMENDED:You are here: » » How to remove a specific bundled app in Windows 10 individually.