"remove-default-apps.ps1" does not account for dependenices

[Zamiell]

When running "remove-default-apps.ps1" on a fresh Windows 10 Pro, it fails upon doing a:

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.Advertising.Xaml | Remove-AppxPackage

This is because several packages depend on this, such as Microsoft.People, microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps, as so forth. So it should be moved to the bottom of the list, or the logic should be expanded to check for dependencies first and uninstall those before uninstall.

[W4RH4WK]

Thanks for the heads up.

When I wrote the scripts initially I did not think about apps depending on each other. I guess it just wasn't a problem at that time. For the time being, I moved Microsoft.Advertising.Xaml to the bottom of the list, maybe this helps with the error.

I'll leave this issue open, marked with help wanted. If anyone wants to add dependency resolving to remove-default-apps.ps1, be my guest :)

[4oo4]

This would be fun to take a stab at, I wonder if the best way to do it is to use Get-AppxPackageManifest, and then parse that for dependencies?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/appx/get-appxpackagemanifest?view=win10-ps

[mmikeww]

i've just made a note for myself that i might need to run this "remove-default-apps" script multiple times, in case of errors and dependencies