Beginning from Windows 10 version 1607, Windows 10 is automatically and silently downloading and installing various third-party suggested apps, or more appropriately crapware and junkware, such as Candy Crush Saga, Candy Crush Friends Saga, Candy Crush Soda Saga, Disney Magic Kingdoms, March of Empires: War of Lords, Netflix, Minecraft: Windows 10 edition, Flipboard, Twitter, Township, Age of Empires: Castle Siege, Royal Revolt 2: Tower Defense, FarmVille2: Country Escape, Asphalt 8: Airborne, Fitbit Coach, World of Tanks: Blitz, Phototastic Collage, Bubble Witch 3 Saga, Pandora and etc., from the Microsoft Store without prompting or asking for permissions.

You may be thinking that these apps and games may be a feature of Windows 10. But in actual, these third-party apps and games are properly automatically and discreetly installed onto your Windows 10 PC as part of advertisement campaign, even though Microsoft terms them as “suggested apps” which are delivered via Content Delivery Manager.

Prominent Suggested Apps in Windows 10

The UWP suggested apps from Microsoft Store are silently installed on Windows 10 PC that uses both local account or Microsoft Account.

If you want to make your Windows 10 clean from any unwanted junk apps, games and crapware, use the tip below to prevent Windows 10 from automatically installing suggested apps on your account in Windows 10.

Note
Disabling or turning off automatic installation of suggested apps does not remove or uninstall suggested apps that were already automatically installed, nor does it removesuggested apps pinned to Start or Taskbar. You must manually uninstall or remove suggested apps that are already installed or pinned to Start or Taskbar.
  1. Open the Registry Editor (regedit).
  2. Navigate to the following registry key:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager

  3. Double click or tap on SilentInstalledAppsEnabled registry value to edit it, and set its value data to 0 to disable and turn off silent apps install.

    To revert the change, i.e. to enable and turn on the automatic silent installation of suggested apps, set the value data of SilentInstalledAppsEnabled to 1.

  4. Close Registry Editor.
  5. You can now proceed to remove and uninstall any suggested apps that you don’t want on your PC.

Alternatively, you can save the following code as a registry registration entries with file named ended with .reg extension, then execute it.

To turn off and disable the Windows 10’s silent installed apps feature:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager]
"SilentInstalledAppsEnabled"=dword:00000000

To turn on and enable the Windows 10’s silent installed apps feature:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager]
"SilentInstalledAppsEnabled"=dword:00000001

If you prefer to use Command Prompt (Admin) or PowerShell (Admin), use the following commands instead:

To turn off and disable the silent installation of suggested third-party apps in Windows 10:

REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager" /v "SilentInstalledAppsEnabled" /d 0 /f

To turn on and enable the silent installation of suggested third-party apps in Windows 10:

REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager" /v "SilentInstalledAppsEnabled" /d 1 /f

In addition to automatically install third-party commercial apps or games, Windows 10 may also occasionally shows suggested apps and games in Start, which you can disable.

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