Dev Home (Preview)
Its customizable dashboard could display system information such as CPU, GPU, memory, and network activity, together with project information obtained from GitHub and Azure DevOps.
since 0.9.8.11
Purpose
Identifier: Microsoft.Windows.DevHome
Setup Foundry removes the app package for existing user accounts and from provisioning for new accounts.
Its customizable dashboard could display system information such as CPU, GPU, memory, and network activity, together with project information obtained from GitHub and Azure DevOps.
Its machine-configuration features supported installing applications and packages, cloning Git repositories, applying WinGet configuration files, and creating a Dev Drive. Extensions could integrate additional accounts, development services, and virtual or cloud-based environments.
Notes
Additional effects
WinGet, Git, Windows Terminal, and Dev Drive are separate Windows features or applications. Removing this package does not remove development tools that have already been installed, repositories that have been cloned, system changes that have already been applied, or existing Dev Drive volumes. Recent Windows versions provide some developer features through Advanced settings instead.
Privacy and security
The local system widgets read performance information from the device. This included CPU utilization and active processes, memory usage, network throughput and network name, and GPU utilization, temperature, and model information.
Account-backed widgets accessed services such as GitHub or Azure DevOps only after an appropriate account connection had been established. They retrieved information such as issues, pull requests, and Azure DevOps queries from the relevant service. Removing the app does not delete repositories or other information stored by GitHub, Azure DevOps, or another connected service.
Effects of the change
Its dashboard, machine-configuration interface, extension and environment management, and the system and project widgets supplied by the package are no longer available.
Existing development projects and tools remain in place. In particular, removing the package does not delete cloned repositories, installed applications, Dev Drive volumes, or files stored on those volumes. The underlying WinGet, Git, Windows Terminal, and Advanced settings features also remain usable.
The package is no longer provisioned automatically for newly created user accounts. It could be installed again from Microsoft Store only if Microsoft still offers it there.
Notes
Microsoft moved only a subset of its capabilities to other parts of Windows; the availability and scope of those replacement features depend on the Windows version and, in some cases, the release channel.
Microsoft documentation
Microsoft Learn: What is Dev Home? (archived documentation)
Microsoft Learn: Advanced Windows Settings
Microsoft Learn: Set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11