Solved Removing DEV HOME from Windows 11

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

I went to Microsoft's Store. I told it not to download DEV HOME but it did anyway and installed it. I tried following this link from this forum, remove Dev Home and got the error message that can be seen in the attachment.

What could I have done wrong and how can I get rid of Dev Home?

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

I thought I may not have copied the entire code so I did it again and got the same error message.

Again, how can I uninstall the Dev Home since what I have done hasn't worked?

SlicEnDicE · Oct 11, 2023

Run PowerShell elevated (run as Administrator) and it should work.

SlicEnDicE · Oct 11, 2023

Not elevated:

Elevated:

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

SlicEnDicE said:
Run PowerShell elevated (run as Administrator) and it should work.

I did that. I found PowerShell in my Start menu, Clicked the Down Arrow, Right Clicked on Windows PowerShell, and chose the option the Red arrow points to as seen in the attachment. Should I have chosen the next option down? Why is what I did not made PowerShell run Elevated.

I have the attachments out of order but the above paragraph refers to the lower attachment. In the upper attachment, I believe I have the PowerShell opened again as Administrator onlt I opened it using the Windows Terminal using the "Windows key" and the "X" As can be seen, I pasted the command twice and the results show nothing as far as I know.

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

I am sorry but I think that Dev Home may have been removed because I no longer see it in the Start Menu. Does that make sense? Unless that is the way PowerShell operates without telling me the App was removed. The attachment show where it was. I hope that means it was removed/uninstalled.

SlicEnDicE · Oct 11, 2023

Ok, I see the issue now. The problem is that you are using Terminal as default app.

Try this:

Press WINKEY
Type Terminal
Press the down arrow to reveal "Run As Administrator"
Click "Run as Administrator"
Now choose a Powershell window, does not matter if it is ISE or non ISE.

See images:

SlicEnDicE · Oct 11, 2023

HDL said:
I am sorry but I think that Dev Home may have been removed because I no longer see it in the Start Menu.

Run

Code:

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle -Name "*Windows.DevHome*"

to verify

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

OK, once again I found another way to run PowerShell as the Administrator. I ran the command again and still no indication that it did anything. Again, please see the attachment.

SlicEnDicE · Oct 11, 2023

Yeah it is gone then probably

Brink · Oct 11, 2023

HDL said:
OK, once again I found another way to run PowerShell as the Administrator. I ran the command again and still no indication that it did anything. Again, please see the attachment. View attachment 73834

This is normal. What matters is if "Dev Home" still shows in the Start menu or not.

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

SlicEnDicE said:
Ok, I see the issue now. The problem is that you are using Terminal as default app.

Try this:

Press WINKEY

Type Terminal

Press the down arrow to reveal "Run As Administrator"

Click "Run as Administrator"

Now choose a Powershell window, does not matter if it is ISE or non ISE.

See images:
View attachment 73828

View attachment 73829

View attachment 73831

View attachment 73833

I did not see this so I tried everything and got the same results you can see in the above attachments but I will attach another screenshot here. I believe

it shows, again, that it is being run as the Administrator but it isn't showing anything as far as results are concerned as your screenshot shows. I have no idea why this could be unless, as I mentioned above, the App has already been somehow removed with the PowerShell telling me it took place.

SlicEnDicE · Oct 11, 2023

Is Dev Home gone from start menu?

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

Brink said:
This is normal. What matters is if "Dev Home" still shows in the Start menu or not.

OK thanks. Once again, I did not see this post before posting a couple more posts above. I am going to reboot and make sure it really is gone from the Start menu. Thanks to everyone.

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

SlicEnDicE said:
Is Dev Home gone from start menu?

Yes it seems to be and I'm rebooting to make sure.

SlicEnDicE · Oct 11, 2023

Please note that in my screenshot I just list everything without any named filters nor uninstall commands.

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

Now a follow up question. In addition to Dev Home, when I went to the Microsoft store, there was an app called Armory Crate. Apparently it is used by Asus for gamers,which I am not one, never play any games on my computers. I chose the 3 dots beside each of those apps and picked to not download them. It did that anyhow. So how in the future when I update apps at the Microsoft Store, can I stop those from downloading and installing on my machines. I have 2 more machines I need to visit the Microsoft Store to update apps so I want to avoid what just happened here.

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

SlicEnDicE said:
Please note that in my screenshot I just list everything without any named filters nor uninstall commands.

I tried to copy your command to test it on my machine. I couldn't copy it and am not sure of spacing. If you typed it again here, I could test it to see if I get all that information yours shows.

SlicEnDicE · Oct 11, 2023

Here is the command again:

Code:

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle -Name "*Windows.DevHome*"

What comes to Armory Crate, it is not only for gamers. It is for everything Asus that can be configured or given information about on your machine. This includes BIOS, drivers, manuals, RGB, etc... Sure, it has probably a lot of features you will never need, but it is a handy tool to have.

HDL · Oct 11, 2023

SlicEnDicE said:
Here is the command again:

Code:

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle -Name "*Windows.DevHome*"

What comes to Armory Crate, it is not only for gamers. It is for everything Asus that can be configured or given information about on your machine. This includes BIOS, drivers, manuals, RGB, etc... Sure, it has probably a lot of features you will never need, but it is a handy tool to have.

Thank you. I copied your command but took the -Name "*Wondows.DevHome" off of it to test and see if I could get all that information your example above showed and I did. So whenever the command that I kept usiug, (Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle -Name "*Windows.DevHome*" | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers) actually removed the app, I apparently did not get anything confirming that it had been removed. Thank you.