It’s a tale as old as time for PC users: you unbox your brand-new Windows laptop, excited by the promise of blazing-fast performance, only to find it's bogged down with pre-installed programs you ...

Windows Insiders testing out the upcoming 25H2 update for Windows 11 have found that it's letting them remove some of the default applications that Windows 11 ships with. That includes apps like ...

At the end of last month, Microsoft officially announced Windows 11 25H2 which is now entering public testing phase via the Insider program for Dev and Beta channels (build 26200.5670 for Dev and ...

Powershell lets you uninstall specific Microsoft apps with a command-line instruction. If you want to reinstall an app later, you can do this via the Microsoft Store. Removing apps using the freeware ...

Windows gets a lot of flak from users for having more bloat than macOS or Linux, and rightfully so. The term "bloatware" is synonymous with a fresh Windows install, to the point that there are custom ...

Cortana was Microsoft’s voice assistant designed to compete with Siri and Alexa, but it has now been officially discontinued. Despite this, it still appears on many Windows 11 systems, consuming ...

Microsoft says the Cortana, Tips, and WordPad applications will be automatically removed on systems upgraded to the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 release. This was shared in a Thursday blog announcing that ...