how do I remove items from levels ? I dont want minimal_default or startermap there at all, yet if I try to remove content. and save all, it all comes back when I hit play again…is a bug and if not, how do I get rid of stuff and make sure it doesn’t come back ?
Normally when you delete them in your content folder (not content browser) they shouldn’t come back (just when you use source controle it could be that they will re-appear ^^). Project-Content-Maps-Delete them 
When you disable “include starter content” in your “create new project” window you should get a “clean” project
You can easily delete actors in your level over the scene outliner -> just select one and press “Delete”
Or you can delete them from their folder on your hard drive while the editor is closed, then re-open the editor and they will be gone!
It doesn’t work to delete them from outliner, because none of what is causing me problems, shows up IN the outliner, unless Im in PLay mode…odd ? 
anyway,yes I’ll remove them from folder and restart…I"ll also remember to untick the starter stuff on new project creation…ty for that
cheers
nl
It depends on which stuff appears in your outliner when you play it, because the UE4 adds some of it (e.g camera actor, hud, … )
Yes I know about HUD and camera actor, but I mean tons of physics objects that fall out of the sky into …tiny 4 sided building, including lots of spheres and tables and platforms the character can run across.
None of them show up in non play mode, and there is so much cruftt in play mode, that its bogging down 3.2ghz machine 
Just going to start over and not add starter content, much easier for now.
whew