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Raphire / Win11Debloat

A simple, easy to use PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps from Windows, disable telemetry, remove Bing from Windows search as well as perform various other changes to declutter and improve your Windows experience. This script works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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Calendar breaks - Which app removal does it? #49

Closed ITGuyattheplace closed 7 months ago

ITGuyattheplace commented 7 months ago

Howdy,

Trying to figure out what breaks the calendar popup (clicking date/time in the system tray). I figured it would be Mail and Calendar but doesn't appear to be the case. Any ideas?

Raphire commented 7 months ago

Heya,

Does nothing pop up at all or is the calendar specifically not showing?

Additionally, what version of windows are you running?

ITGuyattheplace commented 7 months ago

Nothing pops up at all.

Win 11 Pro 10.0.22631.3447 23H2

I'd noticed this running default settings on a few machines, I ran it again without removing communications apps but did remove Office 365 for Windows (or whatever it's called), still goes splat. I'll try and get some testing done today on other machines.

ITGuyattheplace commented 7 months ago

I did a fresh install, ran the debloat excluding comms apps and Office, just all the regular garbage removed. Calendar working.

Ran Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online $AppxApps | where-object {$_.packagename –like "microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps"} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online -Verbose

Mail is removed and calendar still working.

Looks like it's something in that first lot.

Raphire commented 7 months ago

That's interesting.

The calendar integration with the mail & calendar apps was removed with Windows 11. To my knowledge the mail & calendar and office apps have no interaction with that menu in w11 whatsoever, and removing those definitely shouldn't break this.

Win11debloat doesn't do anything related to the calendar/notification popup menu either

Are there any other changes you make to your install?

ITGuyattheplace commented 7 months ago

Totally vanilla install of Win 11. All I'm doing is running the tool in the various ways described.

I'll fire up a VM and do some more testing. Probably won't happen this week.

Flippin' Micro$oft man...

ITGuyattheplace commented 7 months ago

Managed to get some time with this today. A non-domain joined machine running all defaults as the only admin user and the calendar is still working.

More to come

ITGuyattheplace commented 7 months ago

Well, my face might be a bit red on this one. It's looking like group policy is causing this, not your tool at all. Will report back with more.

ITGuyattheplace commented 7 months ago

Found it...

GPO: User config/Policies/Admin Templates/Start Menu and Taskbar/Remove Notifications and Action Center

Raphire commented 7 months ago

Thanks for reporting back on this, and no worries! Glad you managed to fix it :)