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I'm not bothered by ads in Windows 11 because I turned off widgets and don't use Edge or Bing. I'm not sure why the author says you have to do a lit of fiddling

I'm not bothered by ads in Windows 11 because I turned off widgets and don't use Edge or Bing. I'm not sure why the author says you have to do a lit of fiddling to not see ads. I'm very happy with my Windows.

XorNot 3y ago
If I have to run a custom registry file to make Windows usable out of the box something is very wrong. Accepting a paid OS showing ads at all is unacceptable.
- labrador 3y ago
  I didn't have to edit the registry https://www.geekbits.io/how-to-completely-disable-widgets-in-windows-11/ https://www.geekbits.io/how-to-completely-disable-widgets-in...
  - sundvor 3y ago
    Thanks for this!
ChrisArchitect 3y ago
Ya where are all these ads? Not using Edge (and what ads are directly in that I dunno), not using any widgets or MS News app, so there are no ads in the OS anywhere. Icons. Apps. Settings.
Someone1234 3y ago
Because every update there is a new setting that needs to be turned off, which is pretty obnoxious. I said similar stuff when Windows 11 RTM, but I've since been turning brand new junkware off at least twice a year, and I'm fed up. On a fresh new installation with defaults I'd likely need to spend almost an hour playing with settings and would miss some. For example almost every single subsection within "Personalization" now has ads settings turned on by default: - Background: Windows Spotlight - Lock screen: Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen. Also Windows Spotlight again. - Start: Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more - Taskbar: Widgets, Chat - Device usage: Every. Single. Setting.
- vidanay 3y ago
  Last week, I started getting popup notifications for XBox gaming (advertisement). On Windows 10. On my corporate locked-down and administered laptop.
- labrador 3y ago
  > Because every update there is a new setting that needs to be turned off That's not my experience at all. I don't have to do anything after updates except learn the changes. They keep changing Terminal, Notepad and Paint, but I'm ok with that. They're better.
JohnFen 3y ago
I still use Win 10 at work, but even there the ad situation is out of control. They don't just come in with widgets or Bing/Edge. They sneak in everywhere. I thought that I'd disabled everything that leads to ads, but there was one that kept showing up through the notification center (which I thought I'd disabled). It took far too long to figure out how to stop that one.
sundvor 3y ago
I was a happy Edge user for ages, but their constant pushing of ads to accept the new Bing search and what not is really doing my head in. So have been moving over to Firefox. Much better! And bookmark synch works great, across different Microsoft logins. 10 vs 11? I like that in 11 the windows don't blend into each other like a giant mush, so I greatly prefer that. I'm on 4 monitors - three wide, one on top, aluminium profile mounted. I've turned off what I can of the web content and it generally doesn't get in my way. Things like monitor sleep actually seems to work, unlike in 10 where one of my myriad USB devices tend to block it no matter what I do with the `powercfg` command.

XorNot 3y ago

If I have to run a custom registry file to make Windows usable out of the box something is very wrong. Accepting a paid OS showing ads at all is unacceptable.

labrador 3y ago
I didn't have to edit the registry https://www.geekbits.io/how-to-completely-disable-widgets-in-windows-11/ https://www.geekbits.io/how-to-completely-disable-widgets-in...
- sundvor 3y ago
  Thanks for this!

ChrisArchitect 3y ago

Ya where are all these ads? Not using Edge (and what ads are directly in that I dunno), not using any widgets or MS News app, so there are no ads in the OS anywhere. Icons. Apps. Settings.

Someone1234 3y ago

Because every update there is a new setting that needs to be turned off, which is pretty obnoxious. I said similar stuff when Windows 11 RTM, but I've since been turning brand new junkware off at least twice a year, and I'm fed up. On a fresh new installation with defaults I'd likely need to spend almost an hour playing with settings and would miss some. For example almost every single subsection within "Personalization" now has ads settings turned on by default: - Background: Windows Spotlight - Lock screen: Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen. Also Windows Spotlight again. - Start: Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more - Taskbar: Widgets, Chat - Device usage: Every. Single. Setting.

vidanay 3y ago
Last week, I started getting popup notifications for XBox gaming (advertisement). On Windows 10. On my corporate locked-down and administered laptop.
labrador 3y ago
> Because every update there is a new setting that needs to be turned off That's not my experience at all. I don't have to do anything after updates except learn the changes. They keep changing Terminal, Notepad and Paint, but I'm ok with that. They're better.

JohnFen 3y ago

I still use Win 10 at work, but even there the ad situation is out of control. They don't just come in with widgets or Bing/Edge. They sneak in everywhere. I thought that I'd disabled everything that leads to ads, but there was one that kept showing up through the notification center (which I thought I'd disabled). It took far too long to figure out how to stop that one.

sundvor 3y ago

I was a happy Edge user for ages, but their constant pushing of ads to accept the new Bing search and what not is really doing my head in. So have been moving over to Firefox. Much better! And bookmark synch works great, across different Microsoft logins. 10 vs 11? I like that in 11 the windows don't blend into each other like a giant mush, so I greatly prefer that. I'm on 4 monitors - three wide, one on top, aluminium profile mounted. I've turned off what I can of the web content and it generally doesn't get in my way. Things like monitor sleep actually seems to work, unlike in 10 where one of my myriad USB devices tend to block it no matter what I do with the `powercfg` command.