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Prevent auto-installation of Apps on Windows 10 computers and remove the apps
MicrosoftHi Tim,
There's a lot going on here it seems. Before being able to really answer the application installation question I'd need to get some additional information about the environment. Details are important.
When you say there's no Domain Controller and that all of the machines are 'independent', what do you mean? Are they all running Windows 10 without a company login to AD (Azure or Local)? Also, what edition is running on the Windows 10 devices themselves? Is it Home, Pro, Enterprise? Is there any central management of the devices themselves as in Microsoft Intune or 3rd Party tool?
The machines are running Win 10 Pro, and there is no central configuration (including no company login) of any kind. This is a scientific environment and we only have a few users.
I know that I will have to perform the operations on each PC given this configuration, but all the instructions I found included lengthy edits of the registry and creating scripts to remove all junk applications manually (at least adding their names hard-coded one by one to a script that then does remove them). This is clearly not optimal as it is gonna break the next time Microsoft adds more unwanted apps to their installation list.
I was hoping that maybe somebody else had already created a script or tool to do this and could point me into the right direction.