What is Mixed Reality Portal? How to uninstall this app.

What is Mixed Reality Portal? How to uninstall this app.

There are various preinstalled apps in Windows 10, but I’ve never used the Mixed Reality Portal and some may wonder if it will be unnecessary in the future.

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 it? This article explains the safe uninstallation method.

What is Mixed Reality Portal? Do I need it?

A Microsoft app that provides virtual reality media viewing. Watch live sports and entertainment with special access and the ultimate in dynamic Communicate with other players and more in the VR game experience .

You don’t need to use the Mixed Reality Portal, especially if you don’t intend to have a virtual reality experience on your computer.

How to remove with mouse

Go to [Start Menu]-[Mixed Reality Portal] and right-click on [Mixed Reality Portal].

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.MixedReality.Portal | Remove-AppxPackage


Type and press Enter, so you can remove Mixed Reality Portal.

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].