Microsoft Store – sign in, sign out, or remove

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[Kathy Stevens]

Contemporaneous with applying the February Windows updates on a number of our computers other Microsoft apps were either installed or updated including:

• One Drive,
• Skype,
• Calculator,
• OneDrive,
• Clock,
• Phone Link,
• Media Player,
• Spotify Music,
• Microsoft Solitaire,
• Photos,
• FeedBack Hub, and
• Phone Link.

We do not use any of the apps.

So, the question is what should we do with the Microsoft Store – sign in, sign out, or remove the application from our computers?

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Kathy Stevens wrote:

So, the question is what should we do with the Microsoft Store

I deleted all Microsoft store apps (but not Microsoft store app).
I disabled Microsoft store updates.

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Kathy,

Remember that if you have more than one computer using the same MS Account this will turn off updates for ALL of those machines. A good thing as far as I’m concerned.

I saw your post and Alex’s reply as I was in the middle of setting up an new Minisforum Venus UM790 Pro machine so I immediately tried it since I had just deleted all those junk apps your listed. It worked as the link showed so then I went to my current main driver, same MS account, and it was also off there…BONUS!

May the Forces of good computing be with you!

RG

PowerShell & VBA Rule!
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Kathy Stevens wrote:

So, the question is what should we do with the Microsoft Store – sign in, sign out, or remove the application from our computers?

I strongly suggest doing the same as @RetiredGeek …uninstall all of the apps you’d like, but please don’t uninstall the Microsoft Store itself. Simply follow the guidance in Alex’s second link, and disable automatic updates within the Microsoft Store.

Why keep the Microsoft Store in existence? Easy! The Store is the only place you’ll find access to the dedicated control panel app for your video solution. I’ve got two machines with Windows 10, one that has an Nvidia-based chip in it and one that uses Intel’s on-chip video solution that’s called Intel UHD. Both of these video solutions have a dedicated control panel of their own, but it’s in the Microsoft Store, as are all of the updates.

In the very recent past, installing a new driver (obtained directly from Nvidia) for my Nvidia chip due to the older driver having a couple of well-publicized security vulnerabilities caused Windows to go out to the Store to see if a newer version of the Nvidia control panel app was available, but it found the app was fully up to date. The same thing has happened in the past with regards to new video drivers from Intel.

Although I have no experience with AMD chips (including their Radeon line they acquired from ATI several years ago), it could be that it works the same…driver from the vendor, but the control panel app has to come from the MS Store. I believe that this policy is part of the DCH driver format that’s being enforced these days for Windows 10 and 11.

 

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