How to Disable Featured or Suggested Apps from Automatically Installing on Windows 10

By Timothy Tibbetts

on 06/30/2023

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Windows 10 installs promoted apps, whether you like it or not. Some of these apps include Candy Crush, Minecraft, Twitter, NetFlix, Pandora, FarmVille2, and more. They are annoying and obtrusive. Not any more.

You might also want to consider How to Disable All Advertising and Sponsored Apps in Windows 10 which includes how to disable this and all known Windows 10 advertising.

This video guides you through the steps of disabling all advertising and sponsored apps in Windows 10:

The easiest way to stop this behavior is with a registry tweak adding a new DWORD or download and apply registry files.

Open the registry editor and navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager

In the right window right-click and click on New > DWORD > 32-bit Value and name it SilentInstalledAppsEnabled.

Leave the Value data as 0 and click OK. If you change your mind (you won't), you can change the Value data to 1.

Optionally, you can also download these registry files. Double-click Disable_automatically_installating_apps.reg to disable. A reboot might be required.

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