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.
