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Change the lock screen wallpaper away from 'Windows Spotlight' to an image of your choice. FWIW on a Windows PC, Windows Spotlight shows me nature and city pho
by signal11 7y ago
Change the lock screen wallpaper away from 'Windows Spotlight' to an image of your choice.
FWIW on a Windows PC, Windows Spotlight shows me nature and city photos with a bit of info about the place. I think I've seen a game wallpaper maybe once in all the time that PC's run Windows 10. It was pretty (some sort of anime-style game?) and not exactly a typical ad.
Looking at Google Images, looks like most of these 'game ads' are similar -- but I can understand how they can be annoying if you aren't a gamer.
- jsgo 7y agoI think they mean tiles in the start menu advertising various games like Candy Crush-ish stuff. If memory serves, I removed them and moved on with my day. Think the occasional big update will add a new one, but then you remove it as well and you're good for a while. That's interesting though. I game heavily on my Windows 10 instance. Most web browsing is gaming related and this is done in Edge as well. All I get are the scenic/animal lock screen images. Really wish they'd get some images that support 3440x1440 because it looks pretty rough (Windows Store looks even worse).
- Scarblac 7y agoI actually like the Spotlight screen wallpapers a lot.
- fortran77 7y agoSo do I. I think if Apple had a default screensaver/lockscreen image server and every now and then showed a photo of the new Apple Watch or something, the Apple people would oooh and aaaah over how amazing it was. I run Windows 10 (pro) with nearly all the default settings. It took me a while to even realize what these "ads" were that people were complaining about. A free game that gets included with the OS! That's it.
- 1996 7y agoSurprising feature I love the most in W10 The quality of image and curation is surprising