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I have Windows 10 Pro. It is horrible. And, I have no choice in any of it. Advertisements pop up at random times. I am constantly turning things off, and they

I have Windows 10 Pro. It is horrible. And, I have no choice in any of it. Advertisements pop up at random times. I am constantly turning things off, and they get turned back on again. I am diligent about checking for updates at the end of my work day, and then turning off scheduled updates. I cannot afford to wait for a "Do not turn off your computer" screen.

oauea 6y ago
> Advertisements pop up at random times Do you have a screenshot?
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- mmphosis 6y ago
  https://i.postimg.cc/8ckbcS5D/Screenshot.png https://i.postimg.cc/8ckbcS5D/Screenshot.png
  - oauea 6y ago
    That's McAfee/HP, not Windows. It probably came preinstalled by whoever sold you the laptop. Uninstall all preinstalled crapware or just do a clean windows reinstall when you buy a laptop.
shawnz 6y ago
I assure you, being diligent about checking for updates is more than enough to solve that issue and there is no need to disable updates in addition. If you install them regularly, then you will not be interrupted. You will only be interrupted if you don't do that for weeks. If you don't believe me, then just try it. Don't base your decisions on FUD from tech bloggers about how terrible the update process is.
- kd5bjo 6y ago
  About a year ago, I had some problems with WSL and decided to do a proper dual-boot setup. The net result was that Windows insisted on doing a long update cycle every time I attempted to use it. This resulted in an effective boot time of 15-30 minutes, which turned out to never be worth it. Why do these devices with almost no moving parts need weekly (or monthly) maintenance? We don’t accept that level of neediness from any other household tool.
  - shawnz 6y ago
    For starters, that's a totally unrelated issue from what the other poster was talking about. That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. But consider that you don't use any other household tool for 8+ hours a day, and other household tools are not designed to serve a rapidly moving target of constantly changing application needs.
    - kd5bjo 6y ago
      > That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. No, it’s just a reflection that the pace of updates exceeded my pace of attempting to use Windows. These all applied successfully, and an immediate reboot was fine. > But consider that you don’t use any other household tool for 8+ hours a day I don’t use my household computer nearly that much, either. At a guess, it sees a comparable amount of use as my dishwasher which demands significantly less attention. (My office computer is a different story). > Other household tools are not designed to serve a rapidly moving target of constantly changing application needs. Regardless of its design intent, my application needs aren’t rapidly changing: I use a computer for roughly the same things as I did 1 or 2 or 3 years ago. Why should I pay the time cost of upgrades to enable features I have no intention of using?
  - __MatrixMan__ 6y ago
    It's because more people use chrome than use edge, which is clearly a broken situation. They're determined to fix it though, no matter how many updates it takes.
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kiwijamo 6y ago
I have Windows 10 Pro and I do not see any advertisements? Are you sure it's not coming from an app you have installed?
- mmphosis 6y ago
  It is not from anything that I have installed. It is obviously from the PC vendor (HP, Dell), Microsoft Windows and Edge, anti-virus software, and maybe some others that I am not aware of. I have tried to turn off everything I can. It is annoying to have click off every option individually as there is no select all, and then click a back button and have everything turned on again by default and to have to turn everything off again individually. After a while, certain notifications get turned on again without me having turned them on and without my permission.

oauea 6y ago

> Advertisements pop up at random times Do you have a screenshot?

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mmphosis 6y ago
https://i.postimg.cc/8ckbcS5D/Screenshot.png https://i.postimg.cc/8ckbcS5D/Screenshot.png
- oauea 6y ago
  That's McAfee/HP, not Windows. It probably came preinstalled by whoever sold you the laptop. Uninstall all preinstalled crapware or just do a clean windows reinstall when you buy a laptop.

shawnz 6y ago

I assure you, being diligent about checking for updates is more than enough to solve that issue and there is no need to disable updates in addition. If you install them regularly, then you will not be interrupted. You will only be interrupted if you don't do that for weeks. If you don't believe me, then just try it. Don't base your decisions on FUD from tech bloggers about how terrible the update process is.

kd5bjo 6y ago
About a year ago, I had some problems with WSL and decided to do a proper dual-boot setup. The net result was that Windows insisted on doing a long update cycle every time I attempted to use it. This resulted in an effective boot time of 15-30 minutes, which turned out to never be worth it. Why do these devices with almost no moving parts need weekly (or monthly) maintenance? We don’t accept that level of neediness from any other household tool.
- shawnz 6y ago
  For starters, that's a totally unrelated issue from what the other poster was talking about. That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. But consider that you don't use any other household tool for 8+ hours a day, and other household tools are not designed to serve a rapidly moving target of constantly changing application needs.
  - kd5bjo 6y ago
    > That is clearly a bug and not an expected behaviour. No, it’s just a reflection that the pace of updates exceeded my pace of attempting to use Windows. These all applied successfully, and an immediate reboot was fine. > But consider that you don’t use any other household tool for 8+ hours a day I don’t use my household computer nearly that much, either. At a guess, it sees a comparable amount of use as my dishwasher which demands significantly less attention. (My office computer is a different story). > Other household tools are not designed to serve a rapidly moving target of constantly changing application needs. Regardless of its design intent, my application needs aren’t rapidly changing: I use a computer for roughly the same things as I did 1 or 2 or 3 years ago. Why should I pay the time cost of upgrades to enable features I have no intention of using?
- __MatrixMan__ 6y ago
  It's because more people use chrome than use edge, which is clearly a broken situation. They're determined to fix it though, no matter how many updates it takes.
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kiwijamo 6y ago

I have Windows 10 Pro and I do not see any advertisements? Are you sure it's not coming from an app you have installed?

mmphosis 6y ago
It is not from anything that I have installed. It is obviously from the PC vendor (HP, Dell), Microsoft Windows and Edge, anti-virus software, and maybe some others that I am not aware of. I have tried to turn off everything I can. It is annoying to have click off every option individually as there is no select all, and then click a back button and have everything turned on again by default and to have to turn everything off again individually. After a while, certain notifications get turned on again without me having turned them on and without my permission.