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you please help me with uninstalling the new Outlook from my computer (Windows 11) as I would still like to use the outdated Windows Mail app?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
    2024-11-24T17:18:28+00:00

    Absolutely ridiculous .... We paid for this .... Win 11 isn't free .... and we can't use the mail program we prefer? Are force into this bloated pos .... time to look for a change people ....

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-11-14T12:08:55+00:00

    Same here, that didn’t work for me. New outlook continues to install whenever I launch the Mail app.

    My guess is the Mail app performs the install of New Outlook, bypassing windows update.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-21T00:28:01+00:00

    with all the garbage you have to do , i could have installed thunderbird and gotton a much better mail client than outlook

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-12T14:12:06+00:00

    This is so annoying, i do the same, uninstall and when open mail outlook is back

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