Spotify was uninstalled - intentional or bug?

[Southclaws]

Is Spotify meant to be uninstalled by this script, I thought it was just focused on "bloatware" from Microsoft? I assumed it was because of explorer.exe refresh or something my music stopped.

[Raphire]

Spotify used to be one of the third-party apps that came preinstalled with Windows, which is the reason it is included the script.

I am unsure if this is still the case however, I don't think I've seen it included recently outside of a stub in the start menu.

I'll look into removing popular apps like Spotify from the removal list.

[Southclaws]

Ah yeah, I wasn't aware it was pre-installed, I definitely installed it myself so I was surprised a user-installed app was removed by the script. If it's helpful, I set up my machine in 2021 and Spotify was not pre-installed then, I installed it myself from the Microsoft Store.

Thanks for the clarification!

[Southclaws]

Perhaps it's possible to detect whether an app was pre-installed or user-installed via MS store APIs or inferring it from location or registry entries?