how to delete the history of uninstalled apps in win 8 store

Anonymous
2012-12-21T20:53:24+00:00

when i uninstalled apps in win 8 ,,, i dont know how to delete that history because when i checked in "your apps"(in win 8 store),,

there were history of unistalled apps..

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Anonymous
2012-12-22T08:03:37+00:00

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community Forums.

From your issue description , I understand that you need to delete the uninstalled App history from the Windows App Store.

Unfortunately its not possible to delete the uninstall App history in the windows 8 App store. Its designed like that .So in future if you want install any of these apps again in your computer you don’t to have search for that in the whole App Store. You can just select “My Apps” and from there you can install that once again very easily.

Hope this helps. Please get back to us if you have any other questions

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-06-02T17:00:13+00:00

    Google Play finally added support for deleting Apps from the app history, I was very happy when I could finally do that. You see, most of the apps we try turn out to be junk, I want to be able to quickly go back to my app history and pick apps that I want to reload. Currently I have to wade through a sea of junk apps in the history to find the ones that I liked but have uninstalled, so please follow Google Play's lead and do the same if not better like I know Microsoft can.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-17T13:29:21+00:00

    As an IPhone user over the past 4 years I recently made the switch to Windows 8 Phones as I thought it was a new fresh take on mobiles devices.  But I see we seem to have taken a step back in time ?  I've literally downloaded thousands of Apps from my iTunes accounts looked at them & then deleted them.  if I didn't have the ability to go in and physically delete them I'd have to spend hours going though my app store history to find something that I actually wanted and without knowing it I now realise what a great Apple feature that was. Sometimes it's the little things you miss the most that make you go back to where you came from.  

    PLEASE MICROSOFT ADD THIS FEATURE !

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-29T12:24:51+00:00

    I understand the purpose of it, but why not give people the OPTION to clear this history?  It makes people feel like they're using a web browser that it's impossible to clear the cookies from.

    How can I REALLY know that the application has truly been uninstalled if there's no way to remove the history of the application?  It makes me feel like when I look in the registry to find tons of entries from a program that was supposedly uninstalled.

    When I uninstall something, it's because I want it OFF my machine.  I often don't want ANY reminders or remnants of a crappy program I've installed, and there are a lot of crappy programs out there.  Not being able to remove the history makes me feel like the program wasn't really uninstalled--in fact, can you at Microsoft guarantee that there are no remnants left of a Metro application once it's been uninstalled?

    This makes me not want to install any programs using the Windows Store that I'm merely curious about; for now I'll only install something that I KNOW for SURE has the exact purpose I want and I've studied it extensively.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-07-01T03:04:22+00:00

    While I understand why Microsoft want store to remember the apps you download (for people to recall them). However, I don't see why we should stick with apps that we, as users, know either works like garbage or is not what we're looking for.

    Microsoft should have it customized so that we can manually clear the history of individual apps that we loathe. I think it a fair compromise between what Microsoft and users want.

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