You may or may not like the game: Candy Crush Soda Saga for Windows 10. Anyway, it can be very annoying when you cannot delete the game in the normal way. Even if it can, the app will install again after restarting. Here’s how to completely uninstall and remove Candy Crush Soda Saga from Windows 10 for all users using PowerShell.
Candy Crush Soda Saga may come pre-installed as bloatware by default on some Windows 10 PCs. Unlike removing any other installed program that you can simply uninstall from settings. add or remove programs , can’t find Candy Crush Soda Saga from app list to start with.
If you uninstall the application informally: by right-clicking the application and selecting Uninstall In most cases, Candy Crush Soda Saga can come back immediately after reboot or after Windows Update if it is one of the pre-installed bloatware on your Windows 10 system.
Fortunately, by running a series of commands in PowerShell, we can completely and permanently remove Candy Crush Soda Saga from Windows 10.
Remove Candy Crush Soda Saga from Windows 10
With the help of Windows PowerShell, we can run some commands to completely remove Candy Crush Soda Saga from Windows 10. Here’s how to do it.
- Go to the start menu and find PowerShell .
- Right click on Windows PowerShell in the search result and select Execute as an administrator .
- In PowerShell, enter the following command.
Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga
If the above command does not show any results, try the following command.
Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSaga
- This command will display all the information about the game called king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga. The purpose for which we execute this command is to see the full name of the package of this application.
- Next to PackageFullName , copy the entire line which generally looks like king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga_1.117.500.0_x86__kgqvnymyfvs32 .
- Once you have copied the package name, type the following command and paste the copied package name accordingly.
Remove-AppxPackage king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga_1.117.500.0_x86__kgqvnymyfvs32
- Press the Enter key to run the command.
The execution of the last command line is completely remove Candy Crush Soda Saga from the PC with Windows 10 .
To check if the uninstall was successful, just enter the first command again: Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga . If the uninstall is successful, the command will show nothing because the application does not exist now.
During Step 3 of the instructions above , the command may be different depending on the Candy Crush app you want to remove. There are a total of three Candy Crush games available on the Microsoft Store: Candy Crush Saga , Candy Crush Soda Saga and Candy Crush Jelly Saga . To remove any of these games, based on the following commands, enter the correct command according to your game during step 3.
- Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSaga
- Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushSodaSaga
- Get-AppxPackage -Name king.com.CandyCrushJellySaga
Uninstall Candy Crush Soda Saga from Windows 10 in the normal way
If you manually download Candy Crush Soda Saga game for Windows 10 from Microsoft Store, you don’t need to go through all the hassles of the above method to remove the app.
To uninstall the app, you can simply search for the game in the start menu or via Cortana. Right click on Candy Crush Soda Saga in the search result and then select Uninstall . This should do the job just fine.
If the application reappears, you may want to use the PowerShell method to permanently remove Candy Crush Soda Saga from Windows 10.