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Uninstall Bing Apps

I need to uninstall Bing.Finance, Bing.Sports, etc.

My c: drive is an 80GB Intel SSD, so I'm very cautious with drive space. The Bing apps are using more than 25GB of space, while the entire rest of the Win8 installation is using only about 20GB. The problem files are all in c:\program files\<something>\WindowsApps which is some sort of protected system directory which prevents me from manually deleting the files. (Sorry, I'm not sitting at that computer and cannot remember the <something> right now.)

I will NEVER use Bing.Finance etc on that computer. And I am the only user of that computer.

How can I uninstall the Bing apps and free up their drive space?

THANKS.
Go to your All Apps page by right-clicking on the start screen and clicking All Apps in the lower right corner.  Right-click on each app you want to uninstall and click Uninstall in the bar that slides up at the bottom of the page.  Confirm that you want to uninstall it, and it will take care of everything else for you.
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Nope, that does not work. It merely removes them from the screen, but does not actually UNINSTALL them - they remain on the c: drive hogging up storage space in the c:\program files\<something>\WindowsApps directory structure. And, by the way, there appear to be TENS of thousands of files in there.

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You can now search Finance etc. in the File Explorer.  Make sure you are searching the whole computer.  Throw away everything that comes up that is for sure related to them.  If you are uncertain, leave it in as it is not that much space and you could wreck your computer by throwing away something that is not related.
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Sorry to be a pain, but that does not work.  The \WindowsApps directory is somehow protected and files in it cannot be deleted (a) via File Explorer nor (b) via CMD dos prompt window even in Administrator mode.

I think the solution will be some official Win8 utility or something, which has the ability to get around the OS protection of the \WindowsApps directory structure.

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What you have to do is be in an Admin account.  I did this with my Netflix and Norton/Norton Studio and it worked for me.  You are not being a pain, you are just clarifying your problem and trying to get it solved, and that is what these forums are for.
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If win8 won't let you open the file location try changing the permissions for that file.  First be sure you are signed on as an administrator.  You can change administrator status in control panel>user accounts.  See if that gets you into the file.  If not follow below: 

First open file explorer>browse to file you want to access>right click>click on properties>select the security tab>click on edit>either modify permissions for your user name OR if your user name is not on the list, click add>advanced>find now>select your user name>click OK>OK>choose your permission as full control and apply settings.  That should let you access the file and delete whatever you want.  At least that worked for me, just make sure you set a system restore point before you mess with protected files in case you screw something up.  Simply make sure you know what you are deleting and you should be fine. 

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Wow, Win8 is such a tremendous pain so far. I'm enormously unimpressed.
 
I have only one account on this computer. It has Administrator privileges.
 
And yet Win8 File Explorer will not let me make myself "full control". And it won't let me change the Read Only etc settings of the WindowsApps directory tree.
 
For the record, I have a B.S. Computer Science and 25 years in high tech. I'm not some techno-cannot.
 
I'm absolutely stumped here. How is it not letting me manage the machine? I'm the Administrator fercryinoutloud.
 
<grrrrrrrr>

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I have Exactly the same problem !

Even though I'm the only user - with full administrator rights - I CANNOT get full access to these C:\program files\windowsapps *.* files !

I've tried all the suggested methods - but only trustedinstaller has full access.

Yeah, you can "uninstall" them from the start-screen, but ALL the files remain on your HD - and there's a heap of them !

The security tab will NOT give me anything but read/execute rights - I can't delete.

NO WONDER I'M ABOUT TO SWITCH TO UBUNTU ! !

Beast of luck to all those with similar issues.

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