


My desktop version of windows 10 has something set somewhere that makes Maps think it had a highly accurate location value at one point in time 40 miles north of my house. What I need to know now is How can I remove ALL of the Microsoft.WindowsMaps application and settings so that a new install of Maps from the store results in a default setup.

If the store version of maps is newer than the version you had installed it may haveįixed the issue, if not you'll still see it. bad news is if you problem is in your maps settings they will be restored when maps is reinstalled.

at which point you can reinstall it from the store. Get-appxpackage "*Maps"|remove-appxpackage Will find the Microsoft.WindowsMaps program and I have found that following the instructions from the previous post but using. Clicking on "launch it" in the store app will not launch the version that's in the store, it will launch your currently installed version. I'm sorry, but the version that is currently installed doesn't work. Hope the information helps, do reply if you need further assistance. (Replace username in the above command with the correct user account name). Get-AppxPackage -user username PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage If you want to remove the app from any particular user account, use following command: Get-AppxPackage -allusers PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage If you want to uninstall the app from all user accounts, use the following command format: Wait till completion of the command, and check if the app is uninstalled, if not Get-AppxPackage *Maps* | Remove-AppxPackageħ. (This command is to remove the app from the system, replace PackageFullName with the copied information withįor example, if you want to remove Maps app, the command to remove it will be as following: Type Get-AppxPackage PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage Select the PackageFullName information of the desired app and copy it.Ħ. (This command will show only the name of the app and its PackageFullName information).ĥ. Type Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName (This command will output a long list of all installed apps containing lots of information about each app).Ĥ. From results, right click on Windows PowerShell and select Press Windows Key + Q, and in the search box, type PowerShell.Ģ. I suggest you to follow the below steps to uninstall Maps app in Windows 10.ġ. Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.
