Note
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.
Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.
Question
Saturday, August 1, 2015 8:28 PM | 20 votes
Hi Folks
I have a long list of uninstalled applications shown under 'My Library' in the 'Windows Store'. Most of these I installed to try out and then removed them as they were of no interest.
However they still show on the list and are of absolutely no interest.
Is this possible to clean these up in windows 10?
All replies (12)
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 7:00 AM âś…Answered | 1 vote
Hi,
For now, we cannot remove or customize this application list. However, the installation file for application neither be downloaded nor store in your computer, it store on your account profile.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact [email protected].
Allen Wang
TechNet Community Support
Monday, October 19, 2015 9:35 PM | 13 votes
Allen,
Thanks for verifying what I have believed. This has been an issue since the launch of the store 4 years ago. When will it get fixed. It is horribly frustrating to have a bunch of apps in "My Library" that i have no intention of ever installing again. The Android App Store can do it. You have the option of removing an uninstalled item from the My Apps list. Do get me wrong, I don't want it to automatically remove an app from My Library when uninstalled, I just wan the option to manually remove it.
Sunday, November 15, 2015 3:10 PM | 19 votes
Agree, this is badly needed option to delete uninstalled programs from the Store My Library list. I have hundreds of old useless apps on the list, so many that it takes minutes for the My Library to open. Further, many of the apps have an exclamation point saying the app is not compatible with my device. Like you, many of these apps were installed just to try them out and were not useful so I uninstalled them and have no desire to every use them again.
Friday, December 11, 2015 6:58 PM | 6 votes
This is especially essential now that Windows 10 dont sync installed apps across Devices.
The "My Library" page in store is where you go on your next device to try and keep up with your apps. Really annoying to have to browse trough alot of apps you will never install again.
I also really wish for a "install this app on all devices" button next to the apps in this list!
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 6:22 PM | 22 votes
I see this thread is over a year old with no update from Microsoft.
Two points they may wish to consider:
1. Having some apps forced into the customers library can be an embarrassment requiring explanation to clients when, for example, you are walking them through how to find and manage different apps with Windows 10. Nobody asked if we wanted "Candy Crush Saga" associated with our names, but Microsoft made that decision for us. Now they have also added something called "Candy Crush Soda Saga." With two Candy Crush apps prominently displayed in the library, it is embarrassing to explain to a grown man that the grown man in front of him is not obsessed with some child's game. Which inevitably leads to a discussion about whether or not it really is a good idea for them to move to Windows 10 if Microsoft is going so far as to impose such trivialities on its customers. While Microsoft feels like it's the only game in town these days, this continuing escalation of hostilities toward device owners will eventually come back to haunt the company.
2. Because the library is associated with a specific individual, the information it contains qualifies as "Personal Information" under the privacy laws of most jurisdictions. A foundational principle of good privacy practices, as subscribed to by most Western governments, is that personal information should only be retained when it is necessary to achieve a purpose clearly intended by the person to whom that information relates. This principle is so foundational that it is included as a legislated requirement in many jurisdictions, including U.S. States and Canada, which explicitly impose the condition. In this case, if a person has not themselves installed an app like candy crush, then there is no intended purpose in retaining it as part of their record. Similarly, if a person uninstalls an app, then retaining it is no longer necessary to the purpose intended by that person. They should be removed or at minimum the person should have a means of themselves effecting the removal.
Of course, I understand that Microsoft has joined other technology companies in using various legal techniques to deprive people of protections provided by law. Whether those tactics are effective in gutting the specific privacy protection at issue here has yet to be tested. But it would make much more sense for Microsoft to simply afford its customers a modicum of respect rather than being so eager to defend privacy-hostile behavior in prospective legal proceedings.
Moreover, it is clear that there are limits on how far the unrestricted consents imposed by Microsoft can go. For example I doubt any court would accept the various terms and conditions as sufficiently destructive of legal protections as to permit Microsoft to add pornography apps to users' accounts without their consent. So it is most certainly a matter of degrees. Where adding Candy Crush apps without consent falls in the range of those degrees is therefore an open question.
Saturday, February 27, 2016 8:20 AM | 2 votes
Candy Crush Saga and other c-r-a-p
I'm a person that started to show signs of diabetes 16 years ago. At the time I cut out all sugary food from my diet. I hate having this app forced on me. It really violates my now healthy life style. Shame on you Microsoft.
Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:09 AM | 1 vote
Really good write up, Live'n'Learn. I wish Microsoft would take note.
________________ drahnier
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 6:36 AM | 1 vote
Please develop an OS where we can remove uninstalled apps from 'My library'. Its irritating ....... please try.
Friday, January 26, 2018 9:03 PM
Entirely agree. The posts on this thread go back to 2015, this is now 2018. Please give me a way of removing Candy Crush Saga. I am 55 years old and have no intention of testing it out.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:06 AM
This is unbelievable. There is a hide option but of course it doesn't work. I have to keep looking at Candy Crush Saga under my apps even though I never installed it? And I have to use powershell to uninstall it after a windows update reinstalls it?
This OS has just gotten progressively more obtuse. Even for me. And I'm technical and work in IT.
I'm switching to Linux.
Saturday, February 10, 2018 2:29 PM | 1 vote
Years have passed and no way to remove uninstalled app from the store library has yet been implemented, this is frustrating, so many apps that just download to test and would not even like to see them anymore, however, I'm bound.
Bruno X. Calmon
Friday, May 18, 2018 6:50 PM
3 years of sheer brilliance Allen.