- [Instructor] At some point,
you're probably going to want to remove some applications
that you've installed.
I'll start by going to the start menu,
then I'll click on the option for all applications
to see the full list, and let's find an app
that I recently installed from the Microsoft Store.
We'll use Evernote for this example.
One easy way to uninstall an application
is to right click on it
here in the start menu and choose uninstall.
Confirm that you want to uninstall it,
and after a moment, it will be removed.
Now this generally works for applications
that you've installed from the Microsoft App Store
or that you've installed from the web,
but the process is a little different
for some other types of applications.
So let's look at something
that was not installed in the Microsoft Store.
We'll look at Google Chrome,
which I downloaded from the web.
So once again, I'm going to right click on it
and I'll choose uninstall,
but this time it opens up this whole separate window
and I can see a list of several applications on my computer,
and these are the types
that will just need this extra step to uninstall,
but it's still fairly easy.
You can select it on this list,
then click this uninstall button
and follow whatever prompts pop up.
I'll click yes here,
confirm that I do want to uninstall it,
and now it has been removed
and I can see it's no longer on this list.
I can close this, and in this case,
it opened up the web browser asking me to fill in a survey
explaining why I uninstalled it.
You do not have to do that, you can just close this.
So now if I go back to the start menu, back to all apps,
I can see that Google Chrome has been removed.
Just be aware for all of the different applications
that you might see in the start menu,
the uninstall process is going to be a little different.
It's going to be just as easy,
it'll walk you through the steps,
but those actual steps
will look a little different for each one.
So those are two ways to uninstall applications,
but you will find that some apps
that come bundled with Windows
do not have the option to uninstall.
So if I right click on this alarms and clock application,
I do not have that option.
However, if I right click on the calendar,
which also came with Windows, I do have the option.
So you can uninstall some of the bundled apps
that come with Windows, but not all of them.
Okay, let's finish up by getting some more information
about some of our apps and seeing one more way to uninstall.
So we'll reset and we want to go to settings,
so I'll go to the start menu
and I'll click on settings to open that up.
On the left, we'll go to the category for apps,
then we'll click apps and features.
And here you will see a list
of the applications on your computer.
Now this is not necessarily a list
of every app on your computer,
but it will include everything that you've installed
from the Windows App Store.
And this list gives me the size of each application
and the date that it was installed.
So if I'm running out of storage space,
I can see what's taking up the most space.
And if I want to uninstall something,
I can just click this button with three dots
on the far right of one of these applications
and I can choose uninstall.
But, as we saw before,
not every application will let you uninstall it.
So if I go to the alarms and clock app,
I do not have the option to uninstall it here.
It's gray, so I'm not able to click on it.
So those are your options for uninstalling applications.