Win 10/Pro Dev Home: What is this new System Component?

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I am Win 10/Pro 22H2, updated through August. I noticed today when I opened MS Store that a new System Component named Dev Home was installed yesterday 09/18/2024. The app has 0 bytes and 56 MB of data. I do not have automatic updating turned on in MS Store, but I assume that since it is a System Component, it was delivered anyway. There is no ‘Uninstall’ button. What is this app? Do I need it? Is there a way to get rid of it (and make it stay ‘gone’)?

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Information on DevHome

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-home/

To uninstall Microsoft Windows DevHome, I believe you can use these commands.
Run the first two in an elevated PowerShell. The first removes it from the current User, the second from All Users.
Run the last two in an elevated Command Prompt. The last one deprovisions it so it doesn’t return.

Get-AppxPackage *Windows.DevHome* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle -Name "*Windows.DevHome*" | Remove-AppxPackage​

PowerShell -command "Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle -Name "*Windows.DevHome*" | Remove-AppxPackage"​
powershell -command "Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like '*Windows.DevHome*'} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online"

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PK,

Thanks for this. I’ve been manually uninstalling it from Settings->Apps.

I think you can safely accomplish this with this PS script:

#Requires -RunAsAdministrator
Get-AppxPackage *Windows.DevHome* | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle -Name "*Windows.DevHome*" | 
  Remove-AppxPackage
Get-appxprovisionedpackage -online | 
  where-object {$_.packagename -like '*Windows.DevHome*'} | 
  remove-appxprovisionedpackage -online  

The second line of the 1st group is duplicated by the 1st line of the 2nd group as I read it?

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

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Apparently so.

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Hi WCHS:

I just had this Dev Home (Preview) app installed on my Win 10 Pro v22H2 machine. See my 18-Nov-2024 post # 2718522 in Susan Bradley’s November 2024 updates out for further details.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.5131 * Firefox v132.0.2 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.24090.11-1.1.24090.11 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.2.1.144-1.0.5088 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783 * Dev Home (Preview) v0.1800.640.0

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