
Here’s what my Start menu looks like without me installing any other piece of software: This is exactly the case of all these apps that I ended up with on my PC after clean-installing the OS. As an operating system that’s supposed to help you stay productive, Windows 10 should by no means offer bloatware that has nothing in common with this approach.


I recently clean-installed the operating system using Microsoft’s official ISO images, only to find out that way too many apps that I don’t need come pre-loaded.įirst and foremost, this is Windows 10 Pro, and which I exclusively use for my work. There was a time when some of the pre-installed apps that were removed by users, including bloatware, that is, were pre-installed whenever Microsoft released OS updates, all without us even being asked about it.Īnd while Windows 10 as a platform keeps evolving, the bloatware just seems to be here to stay, and the recently-released October update is no exception. Long-time Windows 10 users probably know that bloatware has been a problem of this operating system version since forever, and even though we expected Microsoft to address it with every new feature update, this didn’t happen.
