Download app verse pre-installed apps

Anyone attempting to launch the app from the Start menu will be greeted by a message informing them that "Sticky Notes needs an update". But rather than Windows 11 "getting the update ready for you" as the message continues, what is actually happening is that the Sticky Notes app is being downloaded in the background.

Savings on disk usage are extremely limited, but what Microsoft's new approach means is that everyone has the very latest version of an app installed from the first time they launch it. There is no chance of seeing an older version of the app and skipping an update as the very latest version is automatically installed on first launch. If you have any questions or face any issues, please let us know by posting in the comment section below.

In this first method, we will use Blustacks Emulator to install and use the mobile apps. So here is a little detail about Bluestacks before we start using them. BlueStacks is one of the earliest and most used emulators to run Android applications on your Windows PC. Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services.

Privacy policy. OEMs and Mobile operators can create Partner applications that can be packaged and configured to install during the initial device setup process.

While the user is going through the initial setup process, the preinstalled applications are installed in the background. The process for creating a preinstalled app is similar to that of a standard app.

Prior versions of Windows 10 would prevent the reinstall of these packaged apps if the user had previously uninstalled the packaged app. The Package Full Name is the full name of the package containing the package name, version, architecture, and publisher information.

The following is an example of a Package Full Name: Contoso. Licensing only applies when provisioning a Windows Store app. Any other apps can be provisioned without a license. If an app is from the Store a machine-license must also provided when the app is provisioned. At this time, all preinstall Windows Store apps must be free apps and configured to be pre-installable via the Windows Store Partner Center.

Once it is configured the pre-installable package and license can be downloaded and then provisioned onto any image.