Remove Groove Music from Windows 10 with PowerShell
Groove Music app in Windows 10 is a brand new app that allows you to play your music collection and lets you make and listen to playlists. Normally, you would remove this default app or disable it. (1) simply show me how to disable it. I already set up Windows Media Player as my default music player but Groove kept jumping out to play music for me. (2) or show me how to play a group of songs by adding song(s) from any file folder without setting up and saving a playlist. The answer to your question is simple: you cannot uninstall Groove Music in a usual manner via Control Panel due to the fact that it's a default media player inbuilt in Windows 10. Previously, Groove Music was known as Xbox Music and Windows 8 users praised it for many reasons. Later on, Microsoft started using Groove, which is a service and, therefore, decided to prevent Groove confusion with Xbox and replaced the name of Xbox Music to Groove Music. Open the Groove Music app. Click the hamburger button in the top-left corner. Click the Settings (gear) button on at the bottom of the app. Scroll down the settings and under Reset, click the.
5 Steps total
Click 'Remove All Bloatware' to get rid of all pre-installed Windows 10 Apps. In the PowerShell-window you can see how the respective script commands are being executed.
Step 1: Open PowerShell
Open PowerShell (May have to run as admin)
Step 2: Enter Command
Enter the following in PowerShell: Get-AppxPackage –AllUsers
Step 3: Find the Groove Music Package
The Groove Music package is actually classified as Zune. So you can use the edit find function in PS to search for Zune. The full package name should be something like: Microsoft.ZuneMusic_3.6.12711.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe.
Highlight the full package name and use the edit copy function to get a copy of it on the clipboard.
Step 4: Enter the last command
Enter the following into PS: remove-AppxPackage Insert Full Package Name Here
Step 3: Find the Groove Music Package
The Groove Music package is actually classified as Zune. So you can use the edit find function in PS to search for Zune. The full package name should be something like: Microsoft.ZuneMusic_3.6.12711.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe.
Highlight the full package name and use the edit copy function to get a copy of it on the clipboard.
Step 4: Enter the last command
Enter the following into PS: remove-AppxPackage Insert Full Package Name Here
Step 5: Confirm!
Confirm that Groove Music is no longer an offered option in the start menu.
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2 Comments
How To Disable Groove Music Windows 10
- Macebbigford Jan 4, 2017 at 08:52pm
Another nice write up. You must be doing a lot of removals today. :D
- ChipotleDuke of Kanabec Jan 4, 2017 at 09:03pm
Also, check out Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage to remove this junk from getting installed to all new users
