How to uninstall Photo app in Windows 10

In some case we need to uninstall any system application package from windows. To remove this application we need to go Apps & Features from settings. But this uninstall button disabled and can not uninstall this software at all.

Sometime we face error whenever we want to update system application and it return an error code again and again. For this issue fixing we need to uninstall this application and reinstall it again.

Today we will be learn how to uninstall windows system application package.

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Please follow the below steps to know how to uninstall Photo App in Windows 10:

1) Close the Photos app if you currently have it open
2) In the the Cortana/Search Windows box type powershell
3) Click on ‘Windows PowerShell’ when it appears – right click on it and choose ‘Run as Administrator’
4) In the PowerShell window enter the following command (tip: copy and paste will save mistakes.

Get-AppxPackage *photo* | Remove-AppxPackage

A ‘Deployment operation progress …’ message will temporarily appear. When this goes the uninstall has finished.

You can use any package name to uninstall any application like as below. It's recommend to replace package name from "Mictosoft.Windows.Photos" to your desire package name.

get-appxpackage -allusers *Microsoft.Windows.Photos* | remove-appxpackage

The Photos app will now be gone and the Windows Photo Viewer will now be used to open your images.

Install application package in windows 10 again. Run this command again in Windows PowerShell

Add-AppxPackage -register appxmanifest.xml_file_path -DisableDevelopmentMode

Need to reinstall an application without uninstall and reinstall run this command inside power shell

Add-AppxPackage -register "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PackageFullName\appxmanifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode

If this command not work insert this following command to reinstall all default app again

Get-AppxPackage -allusers | foreach {Add-AppxPackage -register "$($_.InstallLocation)\appxmanifest.xml" -DisableDevelopmentMode}

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