I wanted to remove an Adobe file because it wouldn’t let me uninstall Adobe through the program management. It said it was being used. By explorer apparently. Checked online, all I had to do was rename the file, then delete it. Worked. But it’s so dumb.
This was how you could prevent Cortana and some other stuff from being automatically reinstalled when Windows forced if. Uninstall the app via appx, or just delete the folder instead if it’s not in use, and then replace it with a file with the same name so it can’t remake the folder.
I wanted to remove an Adobe file because it wouldn’t let me uninstall Adobe through the program management. It said it was being used. By explorer apparently. Checked online, all I had to do was rename the file, then delete it. Worked. But it’s so dumb.
Btw this also method to prevent file/dir be automatic created: for dir make file with same name, for file other way.
Usually rename only replace other file, not dir. And if path exist but file, cannot open as dir, but also not create.
This was how you could prevent Cortana and some other stuff from being automatically reinstalled when Windows forced if. Uninstall the app via appx, or just delete the folder instead if it’s not in use, and then replace it with a file with the same name so it can’t remake the folder.