Windows 10: How to remove Groove Music from your PC

Groove Music is a music streaming service from Microsoft. This was completely free until 2014, but since then has only been offered for a fee. In January 2018, Groove Music was completely shut down and therefore can no longer be used. The application came with Windows 10 on your PC.

How you could remove Groove Music from your PC on Windows 10

With Groove Music, there was a music streaming service from Microsoft that already came to your PC with Windows 10. However, if you wanted to use it, you had to pay a fee since 2014. Groove Music was shut down by Microsoft on January 1, 2018. If you wanted to remove the application from your computer before, this was possible with a little work.

1. First, open Windows Search and enter the term "Powershell ISE" in the text field.
2. Confirm the entry with the Enter key.
3. Then, among the results, open Powershell with the right mouse button. Select "Run as administrator" in the context menu.
4. After that, the Windows console opens. First enter as command "Get-AppxPackage *ZuneMusic* | Remove-AppxPackage" and confirm it with the Enter key. Die Anführungszeichen können dabei weggelassen werden.
5. Anschließend wird die Anwendung von Ihrem Computer entfernt. Sie können die Konsole nun schließen.
6. Ein Neustart Ihres Computers ist nicht nötig.