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I have autodesk inventor installed on my windows machine. When i click the start menu and type "inventor," not only does it fail to give me a button to launch t

I have autodesk inventor installed on my windows machine. When i click the start menu and type "inventor," not only does it fail to give me a button to launch the program, but it instead shows me ads for things like candy crush. I can't speak for everyone, but I don't consider that an extension of the operating system's capabilities. It's especially galling because this is already a solved problem, and there is no technical issue causing it. It's microsoft intentionally making their user experience worse because they are betting it will make them money. The win95 start menu was better for launching programs. The Spotlight search tool as it existed in osX in 2007 was vastly superior for search.

josefresco 4y ago
I'm not seeing this behavior on multiple Windows 11 machines. When I type "inventor" I see files, web, document and then app results. After my 3rd or 4th test, I saw Bing web results in the right hand panel which did include ads (ironically for the exact software you mentioned). Are these the ads to which you are referring?
mrguyorama 4y ago
FYI, you can right click on the candy crush ad, say hide, and never see it again, period. You can do this with most "ads" on windows 10. My start menu looks like it did in the 7 days, because I turned off the entire side panel that had all the "tiles". Even the panel that comes up when I click in the "search" bar (which is not the start menu!) is devoid of basically any tiles, because they are all hidden. I literally never saw the candy crush tile, because I installed windows myself from a microsoft CD, turned off every option on the "personalization" or whatever page when you do a fresh install, and have no OEM bloatware as well.