Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Select Name

To remove the preinstalled windows 10 apps for all users using powershell, open powershell as Administrator, and paste the following.

#Be careful with the first line ... you may want to keep the windows store installed as alot of applications come through there now, rather than direct installs.
#Get-appxpackage -allusers windowsstore | install-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers xboxapp | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers 3dbuilder | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers zune | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -AllUsers camera | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -AllUsers solitaire | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -AllUsers bing | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -AllUsers getstarted | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -AllUsers photos | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers alarms | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers skype | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers phone | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers maps | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers people | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers messaging | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers connectivity | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers communication | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -allusers candy | remove-appxpackage
Get-appxpackage -AllUsers office | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-appxpackage -AllUsers twitter | Remove-AppxPackage

If you didn’t actually read the above before copying and pasting (as we may or may not have done), you will need to re-install the store if you want it (which is likely):

Get-AppXPackage WindowsStore -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}

To Add singular packages back in, use the following code

Get-appxpackage -allusers twitter | install-appxpackage

Powershell is an amazing thing that allows the reasonably knowledgeable person to do many functions easily which would normally require alot more time and or effort.

Microsoft also has a great resource on what apps are installed, system apps and if not on the list are therefore removable … Windows 10 – Apps – Windows Application Management | Microsoft Docs

Update 2021

The following list is one that I have found on a newly installed win10 machine and most of the problematic apps where removed. it should be noted that when i re-ran the list and found most of the apps still installed, so im working on a way to remove the likes of skype … good old microsoft, always doing what it thinks is right by us, despite being told to remove an app and actually showing it as removing, the app doesn’t remove … go figure.

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.GetHelp | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.Windows.Photos | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsAlarms | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsCalculator | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsCamera | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsMaps | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.Xbox.TCUI | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.XboxSpeechToTextOverlay | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.YourPhone | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers SpotifyAB.SpotifyMusic | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.XboxApp | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.MixedReality.Portal | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.Getstarted | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.ZuneVideo | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.ZuneMusic | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.BingWeather | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.WindowsFeedbackHub | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes | Remove-AppPackage
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers Microsoft.SkypeApp | Remove-AppPackage

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We recently discovered SyncThing and have been very impressed with it’s features, functionality and security. If you have not yet heard of SyncThing, then you don’t know what your missing out on. It has many awesome features, a few of which are listed below.

• Syncthing is an amazing free software that allows you to share folders between networked devices, such as laptops and mobile phones.
• Syncthing has clients for windows, mac and linux computers
• Syncthing has clients for android and apple ios (ipad, iphone, ipod) although the later has limited support.
• Sycthing is secure.
• Syncthing can be setup to sync in a mesh or spoke.

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sshfs-win-manager which is free open source software and uses sshfs-win

ExpanDrive has not been tested, but looks very promising, if only it had sugarsync

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You don’t need to pay for the professional version to have Remote Desktop services installed on your computer. Some smart people have worked out how install Remote Desktop Server on Win10 Home.

A good article explaining how to enable remote RDP access in Windows 10 Home edition, but sadly RDPWrap isn’t updated for the latest version of windows 10, So we decided to make it easier for people to find a working RDPWrap solution:

1. Copy the files from the archive “RDPWrap-v1.6.2.zip” (or newer) to the “%ProgramFiles%\RDP Wrapper” directory.
2. DO NOT use other location to install/extract the RDP Wrapper files, as it will not work,
   USE ONLY the “%ProgramFiles%\RDP Wrapper” directory (normally C:\Program Files (x86)\RDP Wrapper)
3. Extract/Copy the files/folders from the archive “autoupdate.zip” to the “%ProgramFiles%\RDP Wrapper” directory
4. To enable autorun of autoupdate.bat on system startup, run the following helper batch file as administrator: “%ProgramFiles%\RDP Wrapper\helper\autoupdate__enable_autorun_on_startup.bat”
5. Set in your Antivirus/WindowsDefender an exclusion on the folder “%ProgramFiles%\RDP Wrapper” to prevent the deletion of RDP Wrapper files
6. Now you can use the autoupdate batch file to install and update the RDP Wrapper. Please run the following autoupdate batch file as administrator: “%ProgramFiles%\RDP Wrapper\autoupdate.bat”

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The following needs to be run on each computer if using a workgroup setup. or changed in your AD security policy (to make it permanent – which isn’t advisable without signing the script)

https://www.howtogeek.com/117192/how-to-run-powershell-commands-on-remote-computers/

Enable-PSRemoting
Set-executionpolicy unrestricted
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "192.168.1.250" -Force 
Get-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts
Restart-Service WinRM

The above does the following:
Enable-PSRemoting sets up the policies and firewalls to allow remote connections using powershell
Set-executionpolicy unrestricted changes the local execution policy to allow execution of all scripts (not just signed)
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value "192.168.1.250" -Force Adds server IP into the trustedhosts to allow execution
Restart-Service WinRM restarts windows remote management service

We are assuming that your server IP is 192.168.1.250, change as appropriate

Now to the actual shutdown code that will be run from our “Server”:

Function Get-MyCredential{
 param(
 [string]$username,
 [string]$password
 )

 $secStr = new-object -typename System.Security.SecureString
 $password.ToCharArray() | ForEach-Object {$secStr.AppendChar($_)}
 return new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $username,$secStr
}
Function Lock-Machine{
 param(
 $machineName
 )

 & winrm set winrm/config/client `@`{TrustedHosts = `"$machineName`"`}
 Invoke-Command -ComputerName $machineName -ScriptBlock { tsdiscon.exe console } -Credential (Get-MyCredential User Pa$W0rd)
 }
Function Hibernate-Machine{
 param(
 $machineName
 )

 & winrm set winrm/config/client `@`{TrustedHosts = `"$machineName`"`}
 Invoke-Command -ComputerName $machineName -ScriptBlock { &"$env:SystemRoot\System32\rundll32.exe" powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate } -Credential (Get-MyCredential Administrator password)
}
Lock-Machine "192.168.1.84"
#Lock-Workstation "NameOfTheComputer" (Get-Credential)
Stop-Computer -ComputerName 192.168.1.85 -Force -Credential (Get-MyCredential User Pa$W0rd)

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Requirements:

1. Check to see if the app is running on start if not running, start it.
2. wait for some period of time (60 seconds)
3. Check to see if the app is running, if not running, start it

Flourishes:

1. Date app last restarted is displayed in title
2. ability to close script with a button press
3. ability to cancel wait time and relaunch app now
4. ability to log when app was restarted

Working on it:

checking if a process is running:

It turns out that checking if a process is running is relatively easy:

tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq appServer.exe" | findstr "appServer.exe"
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 Echo No server Process found
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 goto start

and of course, now you have to choose:

choice /T 60 /D y /C YABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZ /N >NUL
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 goto loop

now we start the exe

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\AppVision 4.0\Bin\appServer.exe"

Set the title

title appServer (re)Started at %NowDate% %NowTime% (Press X to exit script before closing appServer.exe)

Pulling it all together:

@echo off
title appServer (re)Launching script started at %time:~0,2%_%time:~3,2%_%time:~6,2% (Press X to exit script before closing appServer.exe)
pushd "C:\Program Files (x86)\AppVision 4.0\Bin"

:loop
timeout 2 >NUL
rem ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 >NUL
echo.
tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq appServer.exe" | findstr "appServer.exe"
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 Echo No server Process found
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 goto start
echo Server process found at %time%, waiting 60 seconds
echo.
rem timeout 60
rem ping 127.0.0.1 -n 30 >NUL
choice /T 60 /D y /C YABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZ /N >NUL
rem echo %ERRORLEVEL%
if %ERRORLEVEL% == 1 goto loop
goto eof

:start
set NowTime=%time:~0,2%_%time:~3,2%_%time:~6,2%
set NowDate=%date:~10,4%_%date:~4,2%_%date:~7,2%

cls
echo starting
start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\AppVision 4.0\Bin\appServer.exe"
title appServer (re)Started at %NowDate% %NowTime% (Press X to exit script before closing appServer.exe)
choice /T 10 /D y /C YABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZ /N >NUL
rem ping 127.0.0.1 -n 11 >NUL
goto loop

:eof
popd
echo script finished due to keypress
rem pause

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There are various different ways to accomplish this. My current favourite is:

choice /T 60 /D y /C YABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXZ /N >NUL

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WARNING

This program is designed to be used by personnel who administrate Network’s and/or have a good understanding of the Network addressing scheme’s of their networks.

Using the IPChanger for Windows 10 IPV4 incorrectly, may stop your computer from accessing or being accessible on the network, and you may loose internet connection.

Download

Download IPChangerV3.8

IPChanger for Windows 10 IPV4 Features

• Easy to configure – just edit the INI file (examples already in file) or use the GUI
• Unlimited different IP addresses (well, the limit is your screen size)
• Easy to use – Right click on tray icon and select the name of your network.
• Simple GUI for changing Network adapters and selecting / editing IP addresses.
• Created using Autoit scripting language for easy maintenance, powerful functionality and friendly support forum.

Screenshots

History

Originally created by Timmio (Circa 2009), the application was updated by us to deal with Windows 7 changes and then again for Windows 10, Unfortunately the original location of the software has been lost to us, so we cannot link to it. If you find it, please comment below, so we can give credit where its due.

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• The convenience of backing up all DBs (such as This Script does).
• Ability to exclude some of the DBs in each machine.
• Date stamped backups, so changes are backed up each day.
• Free and preferably open-source.
• Easy to integrate into our existing backup scripts.

A quick search showed up nothing. We decided to expand the above mentioned script functionality to include what we require. Provided below is the important parts of the script:

:: allows for skipping of particular databases
set SkipThis=0
for /d %%f in (*) do (
    set /A Counterf=!Counterf!+1
    :: remove echo here if you like
    echo processing folder "%%f"
    pushd "%~dp0"
        set Countera=0
        for %%a in (*.exclude) do (
            rem increment the counter, so we know how many files we have read.
            set /A Countera=!Countera!+1
            if %Debug% == 1 echo DEBUG - Exclude file found: "%%~na"
            if %%a == %%f.exclude set SkipThis=1
            if !SkipThis! == 1 if %Debug% == 1 echo DEBUG - Skipping Backup of "%%f"
            )
        If %Debug% == 1 echo DEBUG - !Countera! exclude files checked
    popd

    if !SkipThis! == 0 %mysqldump% --host="localhost" --user=%dbUser% --password=%dbPassword% --single-transaction --add-drop-table --databases %%f > %backupDir%\%dirName%\%%f.sql
    if !SkipThis! == 0 %zip% a -tzip %backupDir%\%dirName%\%fileSuffix%_%%f.sql.zip %backupDir%\%dirName%\%%f.sql
    if !SkipThis! == 0 set /A Counterb=!Counterb!+1

    :: make sure to set this back to normal, so we don't skip the next DB backup as well
    set SkipThis=0
)
echo DONE - !Counterf! DBs found, !Counterb! DBs backed up

We then just need to create some blank files with “.exclude” extension. The “.exclude” files have the same name as the DB to exclude. Example such as “sys.exclude” will exclude the “sys” DB from backups

Licensing is as usual, this script is Open Source and we provide a download for your easy of use.

Troubleshooting

1. If backups are not created, check all your location variables are set correctly

How to Use

1. Download the MySQL Backup Script and extract into a suitable location.
2. Open up “MySQLBackup.bat” in notepad++ (or similar).
3. You will need to change the dbUser, dbPassword, backupDir, mysqldump, mysqlDataDir and zip file/app locations on lines 4-9.
4. Save the file and run (you can open a command prompt by typing cmd into the title bar of explorer)
5. This script will now be executable. Go to your command prompt and run this to backup your databases.
6. If backups are not created, check all your location variables are set correctly

Next time you need to Backup MySQL on windows 10 for free, use this script to make it easy

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