Windows application will not uninstall

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If you've been around Windows for any significant length of time, you'll be familiar with the usual methods for software removal. You can fire up a dedicated uninstaller, which you might find in a program's Start menu folder, its folder on the drive, or as a shortcut on your desktop. More regularly, you'll head to the Control Panel and remove software from the Programs and Features section, which usually fires up the uninstaller for your software.

This does everything from one handy place, with the added benefit of allowing you to see what's installed and sort it by frequency of use or age. In Windows 10, you can also do a little piecemeal sweeping up by right-clicking outdated items in the Start menu and selecting Uninstall from the context menu which appears.

Use this method, though, and you'll quickly hit a bit of a snag Microsoft loves to give you software of questionable usefulness. So sure is it that you will absolutely love that software, it neglects to offer the option to uninstall it at all — try to use the right-click trick to excise, for example, 3D Builder or Groove Music, and you'll be out of luck. You can, however, strap yourself in and use PowerShell to get the job done.

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