There are various preinstalled apps in Windows 10, but some may wonder that Fresh Paint shown in “Apps & Features” is really unnecessary.
Even the software that was installed arbitrarily will always be upgraded automatically, so the application itself will take up space, and the temporary file of the upgrade will slow down the whole operation of Windows 10.
Should I remove Fresh Paint Windows 10? This article explains the safe uninstallation method.
What is Fresh Paint Windows 10?
An app from Microsoft that has an intuitive UI and provides a paint function that supports touch, mouse, and stylus input. You can paint and paint with watercolors, oils, pencils, pastel and pens.
If you have other apps that you use for digital drawing, you don’t need to use Fresh Paint.
How to remove with mouse
Go to [Start Menu]-[Fresh Paint] and right-click on [Fresh Paint].
Click [Uninstall] and run it to remove the app. However, if you can’t see [Uninstall] with mouse click, use the advanced method.
Advanced method
Send a command from the keyboard to Windows 10 to remove it.
Call the app “PowerShell”. Right-click on the taskbar and select [Taskbar Settings].
There is a switch that is wrote “Replace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the menu When I right-click the start button or press Windows key + X”. Change to On position.
You can now close this setting screen.
Right-click on the start button. Then, there is a display of [Windows PowerShell (admin)] in the middle, so open it by left click. If you may be asked Go or Cancel, select Yes to open Windows PowerShell.
Put in the Windows PowerShell screen the following character string from the keyboard.
Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.FreshPaint | Remove-AppxPackage
Type and press Enter, so you can remove Fresh Paint.
If you are in trouble
There are other ways to start Windows PowerShell, so if the above doesn’t work,
(1) Right click on the start button. Then, there is [Search] menu at the bottom, so open it by left click.
Type PowerShell in the search box, and left-click [Run as administrator].
(2) Follow the list of apps in the start menu, display [Windows PowerShell], right-click and click [Run as administrator].