W10 – Remove Bloatware

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[doriel]

Hi there, I wanted to share tool called BLOATBOX – it can remove unwanted apps from your brand new Windows system. Version 0.13.0 is out. No installation is needed, just unpack and run.
GitHub – BloatBox
Its very simplistic and its very small (16,4 KB)
You select apps on the left pane, move them to right and remove selected ones from your PC by button “Uninstall” in the lower section. Works for me 100% so far..

Sometimes its hard to recognize apps, but its still far less complicated than removing them from PowerShell.
It is recommended to perform system restore point/backup before removing any apps.

Dell Latitude 3420, Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM, W10 22H2 Enterprise

HAL3000, AMD Athlon 200GE @ 3,4 GHz, 8GB RAM, Fedora 29

PRUSA i3 MK3S+

• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by doriel.
• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by doriel. Reason: backup before first usage!

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I didn’t try v13 at first. As v14 was out I tried that instead. It didn’t work in my Win 10 Home VM… it just created a text file then triggered Windows Error Reporting (werfault.exe) every single time I tried to run it.

Event Viewer showed .Net Runtime errors (unhandled exception) with faulting application Bloatbox.exe, version 0.14.0.0 pointing at KERNELBASE.DLL.

So, after re-starting, I tried Bloatbox v13 instead. Same result… a spike in CPU usage then werfault.exe kicks in.

I didn’t experiment any further.

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I tested v 0.13 on both Win 1809 Enterprise and virtual windows 10 1909 Pro.
On both systems I removed all “XBox” apps and it worked. I will try it on VM Windows 10 Home later, cant find the time right now..

Dell Latitude 3420, Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM, W10 22H2 Enterprise

HAL3000, AMD Athlon 200GE @ 3,4 GHz, 8GB RAM, Fedora 29

PRUSA i3 MK3S+

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