How to: Uninstall Groove Music in Windows 10

Kevin ArrowsUpdated on April 29, 2024
Kevin is a certified Network Engineer

Groove Music serves as the on-board audio player packaged with all builds of the latest version of the Windows Operating System, Windows 10. Essentially, Groove Music is a redesigned, revamped, and slightly improved version of Xbox Music, now sporting a new name. It boasts a substantial number of positive features. However, according to numerous Windows 10 users, these positives seem to dwindle when compared to the numerous negatives, errors, and random crashes that the application brings along.

Groove Music is highly unpopular among Windows 10 users, especially those who are not new to the world of music playback and prefer their music players to have a little more zest, along with additional features and functionalities. Some Windows 10 users want to discard Groove Music because it lacks the features they desire, while others want to do so because it possesses all the wrong features. Another group wishes to eliminate it because it interferes with other music players. Groove Music tends to meddle with third-party music players that have been set as the default music players, inhibiting them from performing their tasks properly. This is the reason many Windows 10 users want to know how to uninstall it.

Unlike most other Windows applications, uninstalling Groove Music is not simply accomplished by opening the Start Menu in “All Apps” mode, locating Groove Music, right-clicking on it and selecting Uninstall. Groove Music is a built-in Windows 10 application, necessitating a few extra, albeit easy, steps for removal. To uninstall Groove Music, follow these steps:  

Open the Start Menu.

Type PowerShell into the Search bar

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Right-click on the program named Windows PowerShell that appears and choose Run as Administrator.

Type the following code into the Windows PowerShell dialog:

Get-AppxPackage *zunemusic* | Remove-AppxPackage

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Press Enter. Wait for Groove Music to uninstall. Once the command is fully executed, all traces of Groove Music will be eliminated from your computer, and the application will no longer interfere with any other music players.

Kevin ArrowsUpdated on April 29, 2024
Kevin is a certified Network Engineer
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    Stuart King Dec 3, 2015

    Awesome! Thanks! Groove is rubbish!

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    boody Apr 2, 2016

    thanxs man

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    Lisa Simonton Whitmore May 26, 2016

    I ran the above powershell code to remove several built-in apps. I even added -allusers before the package name. For some reason Groove, People and XBox continue to show up in the Start Menu. If I click on any of them they open but if I run the PS code again I get the message that app is not installed. How do I get those 3 out of the Start Menu?

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      Alex Aug 18, 2017

      I’m having the same problem. Tried at least four different variations of commands in Powershell but it’s still showing up in Start search. Have you found a solution since you posted this? If so, do you recall what it was?

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    Ron Wolpa Feb 11, 2017

    goddamn Microsoft , every time I update win10 this crap (Groove ) is reinstalled , as well as Movies & TV. This is a nasty way to push Microsoft’s applications onto users

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    silverfishimperitrix Aug 27, 2017

    This worked great. Thanks for freeing me from this turbulent program!

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