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That is simply untrue. You can uninstall approximately half of the bloatware, and on occasion they do reappear after 'feature updates'.

Win 10 Pro comes with the following, all of which have the "Uninstall" disabled:

  Xbox Game Bar
  Your Phone
  Maps
  Camera

And this is after removing many other apps that are objectively bloatware. Myself and many others I've spoken to simply want Win10Pro to be closer to LTSB than Home. It doesn't need to be stable enough to run unattended for years at a time, it just needs to be lightweight and without the Start Menu being populated with dozens of things a power user will never touch.

I'm sure if I cared enough there's some hacky way to remove them (at least superficially), but I've been down that road enough times only to have it all reversed after an update.

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You can remove those by saving the below in a cleanup.ps1 file and running it via Powershell after the feature updates every six months.

    Get-AppxPackage *XboxGamingOverlay* | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage *YourPhone* | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage *WindowsMaps* | Remove-AppxPackage
    Get-AppxPackage *WindowsCamera* | Remove-AppxPackage

To get the names of other apps, run Get-AppxPackage > Apps.txt and inspect the resulting file.

I agree completely that it would be better if they didn't include the bloatware in the first place, but removing it is pretty straightforward.

Straightforward only if you know these commands. I've never heard of the Get/Remove-AppxPackage commands before, but thanks for the tip!

The modern style for shell commands on Windows is to name them exactly “Verb-Noun”, where neither “Verb” nor “Noun” have hyphens. If you are interested in what is possible, spend some time investigating the available nouns in whatever problem domain you are working with.

I found this list of available Powershell modules: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/?view=win...

Straightforward in the same sense that "getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem" is "trivial"[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Boot usb linux, delete whatever programs you don't want in windows, including windows update, windows update repair services, and whatever else. Boot windows without internet, use the firewall to make sure nothing gets updated or reinstalled.

I’d rather not to do that in the system I supposed to pay for. Have no problem with free version.

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