Windows Tips: Completely uninstall Metro Apps from Windows 8/8.1/10 with PowerShell

When you uninstall a Windows Store App from usual options, the app is removed temporarily and goes to a “staged condition”: the app still lies in Windows and is prepared to get automatic installation when a new user account is created.

To completely remove the app, you must be signed in as Administrator of you Windows Account and you need to remove it in two places:

1. Remove the provisioned package
2. Remove the “installed” package from the administrator account.

How?

1. Open a PowerShell session with administrator privileges
2. In the PowerShell you can get a list of installed apps with this command:

   Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers
   

3. With the correct name of the app package (PackageFullName), you can uninstall the provisioned package with this command:

   Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -package PACKAGENAME
   

4. …and the installed package with

   Remove-AppxPackage PACKAGENAME