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I recently bought a new Windows PC which came with pre-installed software.
I deleted everything apart from the app WPS Office, because at first I could not uninstall. Afterwards, using Windows App Boss I managed to delete WPS Office.
But in start menu there's still the WPS Office folder, empty, with a blue square icon (instead of the classic folder icon), so apparently "bugged", but being able to right-click to open its Microsoft app page and other stuff:
So I opened regedit (I am not very good with Windows PC, so at that point I was just trying without knowing exactly what I was doing) and deleted every single reference to WPS Office and Zhuhai-Kingsoft (which appears to be the name of the developers)
Previously, I scanned through C: drive (partition) for those keywords and then deleted everything. After a system restart, there were no tangible trace of WPS Office if not in the start menu, still here as always. I really don't know what to do to get rid of that. Also, I obviously searched for all appdata roaming/local subfolders, where I usually find start menu folders.
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For future reference, rather than devoting a lot of time and effort toward removing individual applications on a new Windows 10 computer, it would probably be much easier to utilize the built-in Fresh Start function.
– Run5k – 2018-02-13T16:16:48.940Well, actually i didn't delete all pre-installed apps, since some were useful. Thus even a fresh start wouldn't have been effortless. Of course, at the time i would have never imagined that this app would cause so much trouble, and by now a fresh restart would still mean a lot of work.TL;DR i just wanted to delete 5 or 6 apps and i discorvered too late that one was still here – Jetboy – 2018-02-13T17:47:15.223