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Windows 10 comes with "Candy Crush Saga" preinstalled, but I do not want it on my system. How do I remove it?
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Windows 10 comes with "Candy Crush Saga" preinstalled, but I do not want it on my system. How do I remove it?
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I was able to uninstall simply by right-clicking on the app in the Start Menu and selecting uninstall.
Typing Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSaga
into PowerShell confirmed it is completely gone from the system, not just from the start menu.
I will be upgrading my desktop shortly (if it lets me; I have my "Users" folder in a custom location, which apparently thwarted an upgrade to 8.1) as well as my fiancee's desktop. I will test this method on both of those -- if it works this is definitely a better answer! – Doktor J – 2015-08-17T19:15:57.243
9And how do you prevent Microsoft from reinstalling it for you because it knows better? Is there an appxpackage i can remove for "microsoft autonomously installing pay to win garbage trash, wasting my bandwidth and insulting my intelligence"? – Cuadue – 2017-03-24T18:30:48.963
When using https://nirsoft.net/utils/url_protocol_view.html you see that even after uninstalling ... bubblewithsaga3 and candycrushsodasaga are still installed as ... url protocol handlers.
– edelwater – 2018-12-30T03:16:57.787See @dark-daskin's answer below for a more complete answer. – pdwalker – 2020-02-13T05:28:07.730
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Since Candy Crush Saga is a preinstalled application, you won't find it in the "Programs and Features" control panel to be removed. Instead, you have to use the Windows PowerShell to remove it. Use the following procedure:
powershell
; select "Windows Powershell" (not "Windows Powershell ISE" if that shows up).Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSaga
and press Enter (TIP: to copy/paste that command, copy as usual, then just right-click in the PowerShell window to paste).king.com.CandyCrushSaga_1.540.1.0_x86__khqwnzmzfus32
.Remove-AppxPackage
(include trailing space) and paste the PackageFullName that you copied in step 4, then press Enter.Source: Adapted from GHacks.net article on removing core apps from Windows 10
9I wrote this specifically because I had a hard time finding how to uninstall the game when I was searching including the term "Candy Crush Saga". Hopefully this question will show up in results for future users wanting to remove it :) – Doktor J – 2015-08-17T15:55:17.643
2Shouldn't it be in the "turn windows features on/off" area of programs? – Raystafarian – 2015-08-17T16:56:59.063
14@Raystafarian, in a perfect world, operating systems wouldn't come with bloatware, and it shouldn't come preinstalled at all. – Guntram Blohm supports Monica – 2015-08-17T19:08:38.643
3@GuntramBlohm I meant, I don't have W10 available, but I don't see why it wouldn't be there, like regular games in other versions of windows.. – Raystafarian – 2015-08-18T08:52:58.803
1I have Windows 10 Home Premium. I was able to uninstall it from the installed programs list. I clicked on Candy Crush and the uninstall button appeared. It uninstalled like any other added program. – Sun – 2015-08-18T19:12:20.523
One thing that I can see here.. There is nothing to prevent re-installation of Candy Crush and or other apps. Sounds like a good place for a GPO/LGPO, yes I know it sounds like a workplace situation, but would be good for the home user that does not want these apps as well. – Leptonator – 2015-08-19T05:44:34.127
Does PowerShell not allow you to do something along the lines of Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSaga | Remove-AppxPackage
? – Neil – 2015-08-20T22:38:10.790
3I just noticed by accident in ProcessMonitor that Candy Crush Saga was updated in "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga_1.85.500.0_x86(...)". The folder size is about 121 MB. But the program was deinstalled correctly in Powershell, i.e. the result of Get-AppxPackage *Candy*
is empty. Any idea? – Thorsten Albrecht – 2017-03-10T17:45:59.150
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First of all Candy Crush Saga is not a desktop program. So you can't find it "Programs and Features". It's an app just like in your mobile phone.
To remove the app,
alternatively you can use the Windows Store or Powershell to remove the app.
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Other answers point to the package name king.com.CandyCrushSaga
, on latest Windows 10 Pro it is king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga
.
Regardless of the full name, run PowerShell as an administrator and execute:
Get-AppxPackage *CandyCrush* | Remove-AppxPackage
I'm not sure why this complicated answer was posted, but manual copy-paste steps are not required here.
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A better way is to disable the install during Windows 10 install. Create an unattend.xml
add this a add a RunSynchronous
command to set the registry value DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures
under HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent
to 1
.
<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Description>disable consumer features</Description>
<Order>5</Order>
<Path>reg add HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent /v DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f</Path>
</RunSynchronousCommand>
Or import this registry (.reg) file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent]
"DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures"=dword:00000001
Before it looks like this:
Now start menu is much cleaner:
The same thing can be achieved by using regedit to alter or create the DWORD key named DisableWindowsConsumerFeatures
at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent
to a value of 1
and then restarting windows. – Toby – 2016-08-15T09:31:09.197
@Toby this is what my comamnd does, but this no longer works in 1607, only for Enterprise/Education – magicandre1981 – 2016-08-15T13:27:10.500
Yep, just making it explicit for people that didn't want to add a file. did not realise it has changed under 1607 :(+ – Toby – 2016-08-15T14:02:24.007
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Removal form Start menu or the Get-AppxPackage | Remove-AppxPackage
command only removes applications for the current user, but sometimes keeps them on disk.
Full removal requires specifying the -AllUsers
switch and running the command as the SYSTEM
user.
PsExec.exe -isd PowerShell.exe
.Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers 'king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga' | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers
You might also want do remove other 3rd-party games bundled with Windows:
I am not sure why this was marked down as it is more correct. The -AllUsers flag is necessary to root all copies of the damn crapware foisted on us by Microsoft. PsExec.exe is not necessary though, just a powershell session run as Administrator – pdwalker – 2020-02-13T05:25:33.767
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Most Windows 10 Apps can be uninstalled by simply right-clicking and selecting "Uninstall". If it is still showing up as an ad, simply go to the Start Menu Settings, and disable "App Suggestions" and disable the live tile for the "Store" app on the Start Menu by right-clicking and selecting More > Turn Live Tile Off.
doesn't answer the question correctly, especially on machines with multiple logins. – pdwalker – 2020-02-13T05:26:19.297
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Windows 10 upgrade does appear include candy crush. I have a work machine that was game free and after upgrade found ccs installed. I cannot say 100% sure but it was definitely not in the start menu until after the upgrade. Uninstalling deletes it but you still need to go to regedit and click find and input candy and you will find a number of instances and keys. Delete them, don't worry it will not cause any problems as long as they say candy crush.
doesn't answer the question correctly, especially on machines with multiple logins. – pdwalker – 2020-02-13T05:26:15.867
19CCS is not part of the default installation of Windows 10; that it came automatically on your machine could be due to OEM bloatware or the Windows Store automatically installing apps previously purchased on your Microsoft Account. – Ghillie Dhu – 2015-08-17T20:29:11.340
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@GhillieDhu that is not correct for upgrades. Please see https://blogs.microsoft.com/firehose/2015/05/14/tasty-treats-incoming-to-windows-10-with-candy-crush-saga/
– Doktor J – 2015-08-17T20:52:34.587I actually had to install it, because surprise, I like it, and it was not automatically preinstalled. – Arturo Torres Sánchez – 2015-08-17T21:35:02.547
17I stand corrected. I have three W10 machines, two were upgraded pre-launch (1 Enterprise & 1 Pro) & the third had a clean install from the MSDN subscriber download; none of them have CCS. – Ghillie Dhu – 2015-08-17T22:11:45.100
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Related: http://superuser.com/a/942419/49695
– WernerCD – 2015-08-18T00:12:15.2373@GhillieDhu it's possible that the Pro/Enterprise flavors and/or pre-launch upgrades do not install it. Dunno about clean installs. – Doktor J – 2015-08-18T01:40:01.707
@Devin None of my PCs or my friends' PCs have Candy Crush Saga preinstalled after upgrade – phuclv – 2015-08-18T05:36:27.263
Hmm... http://neurogadget.com/2015/08/16/windows-10-will-install-candy-crush-saga-automatically/12682
– JDługosz – 2015-08-18T09:07:51.8133Can anyone explain to me what's the difference with this and having minesweeper preinstalled for example? These comments about choosing mac over pc for this reason made me interested. – Predelnik – 2015-08-18T14:39:36.283
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When I bought an iBook running OS X 10.3, it came with Marble Blast Gold pre-installed. Windows 95 came wish Hover!… they were really great games, and nobody complained AFAIK. Ok, I dislike dearly Candy Crush too, and I definitely hate King, but… still this isn't very different. Pre-installed games are actually a nice thing. As long as you can uninstall and re-install them, of course.
– o0'. – 2015-08-18T14:58:14.06710Minesweeper and Solitaire (and Hover! for that matter) are "in-house" games; Candy Crush Saga is a third party game -- that's the key difference to me at least. Add in the fact that I dislike and do not trust its publisher, and I am definitely not pleased with this being given to me as a "bonus". – Doktor J – 2015-08-18T19:10:21.020
@DoktorJ Well as I checked out pinball game which was distributed I believe with Windows XP was also developed by third party company called Cinematronics. Makes me wonder how all the people still hasn't moved to mac since those days long gone. Not that I don't admire your valiant effort to free precious 50 MB of course :) – Predelnik – 2015-08-18T20:47:20.997
2The games keep reinstalling automatically, even though I have uninstalled them before, and they are always placed at the top of the start menu. This is nothing like minesweeper. – Cuadue – 2017-03-24T18:28:57.963
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Possible duplicate of How do you forcefully remove apps in Windows 10?
– sampablokuper – 2017-12-16T23:02:52.633Possible duplicate of How to Remove Windows Store and other Universal Apps in Windows 10 Pro
– Ramhound – 2019-06-25T18:53:25.410