Removing it may well break functionality.Įdge is a good browser, and worth keeping if only as a backup. It should therefore save space in the long run. The EdgeHTML rendering engine is also available to third-party programs, which saves everyone from shipping their own rendering engine with every application. The Edge browser is part of Windows 10, and its components can be used by other software to display HTML files. Click on Publisher to sort that column so that all the Microsoft apps are together.Īpps & features lists your apps and programs and tells you how much space each is taking up. Run CCleaner Free and click Tools (the spanner icon) to get a list of programs. Otherwise, Piriform’s CCleaner Free provides a simple way to remove most of the bundled apps.
Click on a program you don’t want and you may be offered the option to uninstall it. This lists your apps and programs and tells you how much space each is taking up. If not, run the Settings app and click “Apps & features”. You can make them go away by right-clicking them and selecting “Uninstall” or at the very least “Unpin from Start” from the drop-down menu. Some Microsoft programs have tiles or appear on the Start menu. However, you should not uninstall the Windows Store app or the Edge browser. You can certainly remove the trial copy of Microsoft Office, which may have been pre-installed on your PC. Nonetheless, you can hide or remove many programs, including very old ones such as Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer 11. On a Surface Pro 4, removing the Microsoft apps is not going to save a significant amount of space. (Windows 10 runs an SIHClient – for Server-Initiated Healing – every day to repair any damage to the operating system.) You will therefore be committed to wasting even more time for the foreseeable future. The time and effort you spend removing these programs will have no practical benefits, and Microsoft may well reinstall them with every operating system upgrade, which is twice a year, if not before.
However, on a Surface Pro 4, removing the Microsoft apps is not going to save a significant amount of space, nor is it going to make the slightest difference to performance. It’s even more of a problem with Google Android, which I use, so I understand the annoyance. Would it work for these? TonyĮvery operating system includes features that some people don’t like or need. I noticed that one of the Windows 10 tuners you reviewed last week “removes unwanted programs”. I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 4, which has plenty of features I don’t need, and I hate Cortana, Edge, Xbox, Groove etc.
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