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Jack asked: “I recently installed OneNote on my laptop, thinking that it might be the program I want to use. It’s not, but guess what… I cannot find an uninstaller for that program. How do I get OneNote off my system?”
We’re guessing you’re using Windows 10. It used to be easier to uninstall OneNote, but under Windows 10, Microsoft really wants you to keep it.
To get rid of it you’ll need to open the Start menu, search for PowerShell, right click on the result and click on Run as administrator.
That’s where things get too complicated for radio, you’ll be better off coming to our website for the command you have to type to uninstall it, but in case you’re feeling brave, here it goes:
Get-AppxPackage *OneNote* | Remove-AppxPackage
And you’re done, Windows should boot OneNote from your computer. They just don’t make it as easy as they make removing other programs.
Microsoft will tell you that this is caused by OneNote being promoted from an optional app to being part of the Windows 10 operating system itself, and the result of this promotion is that you’re not uninstalling an app, you’re removing part of the operating system.
That doesn’t make it any less annoying to remove, but I guess we can understand the reasoning.
Why did Microsoft make the dang One Note so hard to use? It is awful. It puts itself in EVERY file on my computer and you cannot delete one version without deleting all the information in all of them. I like the idea of a note book type app, but this one is not the one for a simple mind like mine. Thanks for your help, now as soon as I get brave enough I will try to do it.
Dave thank you for your help. I had Windows 7 and downloaded to Windows 10 and we are happy with its performance. That OneNote was a pain but did your suggestion and it was easy. I dont know if I did that process correctly because that OneNote little window comes up which really slows my PC down when starting up. Any other suggestions we would appreciate.
Thanks………Ted
Praise the Lord!!!!!….you helped me get rid of that crap!!!
Did not work, guess I can’t find a vertical line, tried using | (pipe) but it didn’t take it.
Thank you !!!!!
In my Windows version 1909 x64 it worked using Windows PowerShell ISE.
Select the proper PowerShell in /Windows PowerShell
Thanks for the tip Dave.