title: How do I uninstall a Staged App Package on my Surface RT?
body: <p>Windows 8 downloads updated packages of installed apps so that updating to the newest package is a much smoother process. Unfortunately, if you uninstall an app, it does not always remove these 'Staged' app packages.</p>
  
  <p>On top of this, you cannot access them, as they were installed by another user. You can't even call "Remove-AppxPackage" from Powershell to remove them.</p>
  
  <p>The reason this is an issue is that I have a Surface RT that I am using to develop my Windows Store App. If there is an "unpackaged" application already installed on the system, Visual Studio is unable to overwrite it unless it's installed only on the user currently running. This unfortunately means that if I am also testing receiving the app from the store and there are staged packages of <em>my own app</em>, then I am unable to deploy my app to my Surface. I get error</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error : DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. Another user has already 
  installed a packaged version of this app. An unpackaged version cannot 
  replace this. The conflicting package is [MyProjectName] and it was 
  published by [MyCertificate]. (0x80073cf9)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I remove these Staged Packages from my Windows RT Device?</p>