How to uninstall Outlook (new) on Windows 11 and prevent it from redownloading when opening the Windows Mail?

Anonymous
2024-10-09T19:51:01+00:00

Hello!

Could you please help me with uninstalling the new Outlook from my computer (Windows 11) as I would still like to use the outdated Windows Mail app?

What I tried:

  1. Uninstalled the new Outlook from settings (Windows Settings > Apps > Installed apps)
  2. Blocked new Outlook preinstallation via:
  • Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -AllUsers -Online -PackageName (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.OutlookForWindows).PackageFullName
  • Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Package (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.OutlookForWindows).PackageFullName
  1. Blocked new Outlook installation as part of Mail and Calendar deprecation via:
  • Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where {$_.DisplayName -match "microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps"} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackageName {$_.PackageName}
  • Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Package (Get-AppxPackage microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps).PackageFullName

All shell commands were run as Administrator and I also deleted OutlookUpdate folder in Registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsUpdate\Orchestrator\UScheduler_Oobe\OutlookUpdate

I would appreciate any advice regarding my question :)

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-18T16:23:21+00:00

    Hello Addi.C, Everything went well.

    I had to change the script a little because the file name inside the Migration folder was correlation.json.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-18T18:50:47+00:00

    Addie.C,

    Sadly, no, it did not work. Neither of the suggestions worked. I was really hopeful too. I found the folder just searching for migration as suggested and deleted the .json file as well as changing the write to deny. Then when that didn't work, I retried the code you had provided using powershell - as administrator - and that seemed to work this time without any error messages. Each time restarting my computer to make sure it took. No luck.

    Any other places to change/delete or other code to use??

    Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-18T20:06:40+00:00

    Hello Addie,
    Thank you for your response, i got this when i input the code:

    Get-Acl : Cannot find path

    'C:\Users\KING-CHIKE\AppData\Local\Packages\microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Migration'

    because it does not exist.

    At line:21 char:8

    • $acl = Get-Acl -Path $folderP

    If possible can you share me a video on how to go about this or other ways of achieving the same outcome please.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-19T08:24:00+00:00

    I found out the new Outlook version is in the following folder:

    C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.OutlookForWindows_1.2024.925.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe.
    I prevented the installation of the new Outlook bij renaming of the folder Microsoft.OutlookForWindows_1.2024.925.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe.
    To do this I had to become owner of the ( Hidden) folder C:\Program Files\WindowsApps.
    How to change owner is written here: https://www.guidingtech.com/how-to-access-windowsapps-folder-on-windows/

    The slider remains.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-20T23:01:21+00:00

    I have been using Hotmail - outlook since before misfit bought it...NOW A WINDOW COMES UP TELLING ME TO CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT ...OF COURSE I CAN'T BECAUSE MY EMAIL STILL EXISTS BUT NOW I CAN'T ACCESS IT...F'N MICROSOFT....GOD WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS

    UNTOLD thousands of dollars a day lost because I can't respond! FIX THIS F-UP !

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