How to remove the Get Started app in Windows 11?

Windows 11 User · Nov 23, 2022

How can one remove the Get Started app in Windows 11?

johnlgalt · Nov 23, 2022

The Microsoft Tips app? Or the suggestion when you log in to do certain things to complete your setup?

Windows 11 User · Nov 23, 2022

johnlgalt said:
The Microsoft Tips app? Or the suggestion when you log in to do certain things to complete your setup?

johnlgalt · Nov 24, 2022

Settings --> System --> Notifications

Scroll all the way to the bottom, underneath the list of apps that are allowed to have notifications, and find this section:

I believe it is the first one that you want, but I suspect that you'll want both disabled as I have them

Windows 11 User · Nov 24, 2022

johnlgalt said:
Settings --> System --> Notifications

Scroll all the way to the bottom, underneath the list of apps that are allowed to have notifications, and find this section:

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I believe it is the first one that you want, but I suspect that you'll want both disabled as I have them

Thanks, but I meant removing the Get Started app. It shows up in the Start Menu.

johnlgalt · Nov 25, 2022

That, and certain other ones, would require scripting, such as noted by GitHub - Sophia-Community/SophiApp: The most powerful open source tweaker on GitHub for fine-tuning Windows 10 & Windows 11 - and this is by far not the only one.

But it does require scripting to actually remove it from your system. For other alternatives, I suggest taking a look in our Personalization section, as I'm pretty sure at least 3 other methods for removing 'unremovable' apps have been discussed / used by many different members, and they can probably help better with that.

Windows 11 User · Nov 26, 2022

johnlgalt said:
That, and certain other ones, would require scripting, such as noted by GitHub - Sophia-Community/SophiApp: The most powerful open source tweaker on GitHub for fine-tuning Windows 10 & Windows 11 - and this is by far not the only one.

But it does require scripting to actually remove it from your system. For other alternatives, I suggest taking a look in our Personalization section, as I'm pretty sure at least 3 other methods for removing 'unremovable' apps have been discussed / used by many different members, and they can probably help better with that.

When I run SophiApp, it states: "Some Windows components may have been broken. Please reinstal the OS.". I guess it's because I used an image created by NTLite.

Regarding your other suggestion, it looks like there's no script that can remove this app and it doesn't even show up in Command Prompt/PowerShell as an installed app.

Windows 11 User · Nov 27, 2022

If it's not possible to remove t, maybe it's possible to hide it from the Start Menu.

johnlgalt · Nov 28, 2022

Windows 11 User said:
When I run SophiApp, it states: "Some Windows components may have been broken. Please reinstal the OS.". I guess it's because I used an image created by NTLite.

Regarding your other suggestion, it looks like there's no script that can remove this app and it doesn't even show up in Command Prompt/PowerShell as an installed app.

Yeah, I've never actually tried to remove it, I simply turn off every possible suggestion that Windows 11 tries to give me. But, I also stick with vanilla installs now, as toying around with removing stuff during the Beta days led to some unexpected issues for me, so I dropped the idea.

I wonder if the scripts would work on an untouched .ISO from Microsoft or UUPDUMP, and if so, then maybe it's something the NTLite devs can incorporate in future builds.

WAI · Nov 28, 2022

What I used in past was CCleaner. Not sure what one would want to remove but ok

Windows 11 User · Nov 28, 2022

johnlgalt said:
Yeah, I've never actually tried to remove it, I simply turn off every possible suggestion that Windows 11 tries to give me. But, I also stick with vanilla installs now, as toying around with removing stuff during the Beta days led to some unexpected issues for me, so I dropped the idea.

I wonder if the scripts would work on an untouched .ISO from Microsoft or UUPDUMP, and if so, then maybe it's something the NTLite devs can incorporate in future builds.

According to this, it would.

WAI said:
What I used in past was CCleaner. Not sure what one would want to remove but ok

It doesn't show up in CCleaner (at least in my case) but I use CCleaner to remove Cortana after installing Windows because if I remove it using NTLite, it breaks Settings app's search, but not if I do it this way.

Fabler2 · Nov 28, 2022

It's not removable as it's part of Windows Feature Experience Pack. As for that the info on that is murky at best from what I could find

It is a part of Windows Shell components and cannot be installed separately. It is already installed but is not listed in components because contains some features critical to Windows functionality. So Microsoft does not allow to remove it.

From here.

Windows 11 User · Nov 28, 2022

Fabler2 said:
It's not removable as it's part of Windows Feature Experience Pack. As for that the info on that is murky at best from what I could find

From here.

Are you talking about Cortana? Well, NTLite can remove it, like I said.

TechnoMage2021 · Nov 28, 2022

I did so want to give the ultimate answer to the OP's question.
And I found this:

It seems like that should have done the trick....but, on my particular install of Windows 11/Pro/64, it didn't work!!! What the heck?
Oh, it did give me the "Are you sure" question, to which I hit the YES button. But, it was NOT uninstalled. MS Strikes again!
Maybe it will work on someone else's PC.
TM

Windows 11 User · Nov 28, 2022

TechnoMage2021 said:
I did so want to give the ultimate answer to the OP's question.
And I found this:
View attachment 46458
It seems like that should have done the trick....but, on my particular install of Windows 11/Pro/64, it didn't work!!! What the heck?
Oh, it did give me the "Are you sure" question, to which I hit the YES button. But, it was NOT uninstalled. MS Strikes again!
Maybe it will work on someone else's PC.
TM

That option doesn't even show up in my case.

Fabler2 · Nov 29, 2022

Windows 11 User said:
Are you talking about Cortana? Well, NTLite can remove it, like I said.

I was talking about Get Started (topic of the question). Cortana is easily removed.

johnlgalt · Nov 29, 2022

Windows 11 User said:
That option doesn't even show up in my case.

I suspect that is not a standard Explorer context menu to begin with in that person's image.

I wonder if you can gather up a bunch of scripts that accomplishes the majority of what NTLite does, and use NTLite to modify the vanilla .ISO as little as possible.

There has to be a point where all of this can be done on a single install, but since the scripts work on an actually installed OS, that may require a whole lot of testing to see at what point backing off on some of your NTLite options finally allows the scripts to actually work on the modified system. If you do decide to go after this, I definitely suggest using a VM until you get it just right.

Windows 11 User · Nov 29, 2022

johnlgalt said:
I suspect that is not a standard Explorer context menu to begin with in that person's image.

I wonder if you can gather up a bunch of scripts that accomplishes the majority of what NTLite does, and use NTLite to modify the vanilla .ISO as little as possible.

There has to be a point where all of this can be done on a single install, but since the scripts work on an actually installed OS, that may require a whole lot of testing to see at what point backing off on some of your NTLite options finally allows the scripts to actually work on the modified system. If you do decide to go after this, I definitely suggest using a VM until you get it just right.

One can use scripts in NTLite.

Actually, NTLite can remove the Get Started app, but IIRC, it breaks something. The same thing goes for removing Cortana with NTLite, which breaks Settings' search.

johnlgalt · Nov 30, 2022

Makes sense and confirms what others wrote earlier - it's buried in the system.

Fabler2 · Nov 30, 2022

Windows 11 User said:
One can use scripts in NTLite.

Actually, NTLite can remove the Get Started app, but IIRC, it breaks something. The same thing goes for removing Cortana with NTLite, which breaks Settings' search.

Just for info I remove Cortana with Geek Uninstaller (Get Started obviously not listed) and it doesn't break search in settings.