Any way to remove all "apps" for all users?`

I get that the new start menu is a compromise, and it's neat that it's "back."
What I'm not clear on, is if it's possible to remove/hide the "apps" for all users.
I'm not keen on having all users have all of these, especially in a corporate environment.
Would be preferable to have none, except for perhaps what's "allowed" by admins.
Standard office users, power users, devs, artists, accountants, most folks at work simply don't have a use for most of these apps. I also don't want bandwidth constantly being used by any of the live tiles. If a user wants to know the weather, they can go to
weather.com. If they want news, this is also available via any number of sites.
The other compromise of having apps "windowed" is also nice, but for an office environment, I just don't see people firing up a sandboxed calculator app (or, any of the other built-in ones).
Sorry, but honestly, I'd honestly just like to know if it's possible to set up a GPO, or use some other method to get the "apps" out of the way of the "standard office user."

Hi techresource0,
Use export-startlayout cmdlet to export the start menu configuration first:
Export-StartLayout
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn283401.aspx
Windows 10 Technical Preview has a new policy under start menu and taskbar:
Meanwhile, I have two thoughts on this if you are planning your environment:
One: a customized image.
Two: customize default profile.
For the first thought, you can uninstall all provisioned windows store app and then deploy this image to your environment. Of course, you can do this in an online system as well.
Removing Windows 8.1 Built-in Applications
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2013/10/21/removing-windows-8-1-built-in-applications.aspx
For second thought, you may prepare default profile, it would always copy to new created user profile:
Customize the default local user profile when preparing an image of Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

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