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6·16 hours ago“I have another device running Windows 11. It’s festered with ads”
I have 3 Windows 11 installations, one work machine, one home machine, and an SSD boot drive for the Steam Deck (some games require Windows 11).
I agree, the ads enabled by default on Win 11 are annoying. But it’s not rocket science to turn them off. In fact, it’s easier to remove the ads from Windows 11 than it is to spin up and learn how to use a Linux distro (and I have three of those myself, file server, media server, standard Steam Deck).
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-remove-most-annoying-ads-from-windows
"Settings > Personalization > Start and disable Show suggestions occasionally in Start (Windows 10) or Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more (Windows 11).
If you have a problem with any of the live tiles that Windows 10 has stuck on your Start screen—some of which are pre-installed junk or trials—right-click on the one that’s bugging you and choose Uninstall to remove the app. Alternatively, right-click and choose More > Turn Live Tile Off to turn it into a simple shortcut to the app.
Settings > Personalization > Lock screen and switch your background from Windows spotlight to Picture or Slideshow.
Settings > System > Notifications & actions and unchecking Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you use Windows. You can also untick Show me the Windows welcome experience, which shows those annoying tours after Windows updates, as well as Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device.
In Windows 11, open Settings > System > Notifications and disable Suggested from the Notifications from apps and other senders section. You’ll also need to scroll down and unfurl Additional settings to disable options like Show the Windows welcome experience and Get tips and suggestions.
Disable Ads From Bloatware
Some of the “ads” you see pop up as notifications may not be from Microsoft at all. Instead, it could be bloatware installed by your PC maker. For instance, working on a Dell laptop, I found that SupportAssist, My Dell, and Partner Promo are added by the manufacturer. A Lenovo ThinkPad, meanwhile, has Lenovo Commercial Vantage. But I noticed that Microsoft no longer includes these apps in my Notifications settings. Instead, I had to track down Lenovo’s app, open to its Preference settings, and disable certain messages myself. These programs can also be uninstalled completely, if you prefer.
Settings > Privacy & security > General and disable the Show me suggested content in the Settings app option.
Get Ads Out of File Explorer
Open File Explorer in Windows 11, click the ellipsis icon, then select Options from the menu. If you’re still on Windows 10, click View > Options > Change folder and search options.
Click the View tab in the window that appears, scroll down to Show sync provider notifications and uncheck that box. This should prevent ads from showing up in File Explorer again.
Settings > Privacy > General and turn off Let apps use advertising ID, if you’d rather have non-targeted ads. In Windows 11, it’s called Let apps show me personalized ads by using my advertising ID."
1·19 hours agoThis is a duplicate post, see the original here:
1·19 hours agoBlogs, including Substack, are not allowed.
2·1 day agoI make scalloped potatoes in a cream sauce.
3 pounds potatoes, peeled and sliced thin (1/8")
3.5 cups half and half
2.5 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme (or 1/4 teaspoon dried)
2 cloves minced garlic
8 hunks of butterCook the sliced potatoes down on the stovetop for about 13 minutes until the sauce thickens. Transfer all to a buttered baking dish, top with 8 hunks of butter, then bake in a 350° oven for 1 hour, rotating 1/2 way through.
5·1 day agoDoes that mean he’ll shut up now?
Self posts are not allowed.
We don’t allow editorialized headlines, the original might have changed up on you:
“Following controversy, all names will be left off Canadian monument to ‘victims of communism’”
Please fix it or we’ll have to remove it.
World is not the place for Internal US News.
Congress taking action to release any kind of file goes in !news@lemmy.world or !politics@lemmy.world
Unfortunately, there’s no process for that. Single judges can be removed via impeachment, but being a partisan hack is not a high crime.
Similarly, nothing can happen with Conservatives controlling the House and Senate.
6·4 days ago“I’d like to ask you to speak with your student about the dangers of pretending to have a weapon on a school campus.”
Or… now hear me out… OR the students flood the AI with false data rendering it useless.
11·4 days agoYou need to Planet of the Apes that…
Humans left Earth in the present day and through some wibbley wobbley timey wimey stuff end up flung into the future and don’t realize it.
They aren’t aliens discovering the husk of Earth, they’re us.
Bonus if some of the angry ghosts are friends/family of some of the crew members.
I remember when W.'s administration got caught with theirs, it was something like 900 lies across the entire administration and we yelled about that! Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rummy, Powell, the lot of them added up to 900.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2004/03/18/Congressmen-launches-Iraq-lies-database/85221079635199/
Trump: “Hold my Diet Coke:”
21·4 days agoThis is like if James Herriott made up All Creatures Great and Small. This is devastating!
That’s what I was afraid of when he announced a surprise speech…
I think the one accurate statement was “People can’t believe what’s going on!”
Yes, well that’s true!
The thing about Portland was pretty easily explained… The night before he made the comments, Fox News had been running footage from the 2020 protests which were pretty severe and ran for 100+ days.
Naturally they didn’t mark it as being video from 2020.
Wait, who was President back then? Oh, riiiight!
Bonus, the federal action they were taking in 2020 was 100% illegal also:
https://www.theverge.com/c/23172433/chad-wolf-homeland-secretary-illegal-tenure-dhs
Self posting and advocating violence are not allowed.