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You can turn all this shit off in the group policy editor. It takes less time than writing an article for The Verge.
by trimethylpurine 3y ago
You can turn all this shit off in the group policy editor. It takes less time than writing an article for The Verge.
- arcastroe 3y agoIf you find time, could you link me to a how-to source?
- trimethylpurine 3y agoIt's the first result in every search engine I tried. Here's one: https://www.howtogeek.com/742414/how-to-disable-the-widgets-menu-on-windows-11/ https://www.howtogeek.com/742414/how-to-disable-the-widgets-...
- hulitu 3y agoYou can't. Only some things.
- daveoc64 3y agoThe source of complaint in the article (Widgets) can be switched off with Group Policy on Windows 11 Pro and above.
- daveoc64 3y agoI too am surprised at how people seem unable to find the readily accessible options to turn these features off. Many of the things people don't like in Windows 10 and 11 can be switched off from the Settings app.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoThat you get down votes for providing solutions should tell you that this platform is sadly flooded with sensational journalism as opposed to the expected technically and scientifically inclined patrons that we'd prefer.
- walterbell 3y agoAnyone created a meta-policy called "Windows 10 UX" or even "Windows 7 UX"?
- viraptor 3y agoMost people don't know about the group policy. Also, it's a constant battle - today you disable this thing, tomorrow they add something else in an update that you have to disable again. Or it may not even by possible to disable on the Home version.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoMost people know about Google and can find how to turn it off, including in the Home edition.
- ssebs 3y agoLOL putting a lot of faith in the average user to be able to Google something
- RodgerTheGreat 3y agoAlso putting a lot of faith in 2024 Google being able to find a result without tripping over a million pages of llm-generated nonsense and ads.
- Rinzler89 3y agoOr malware. "Here user, just type this in the comand line and run as administrator"
- trimethylpurine 3y agoThe very first results from DuckDuckGo and Google show how to turn this off. For end users, it's literally in the built in settings. Group Policy is just nice for enterprise. I think you are all making a huge deal over nothing. This is why it takes so long to hire a decent group of people. It takes hundreds of hours to weed out people that would rather complain than find a solution, which is most of you, as you can see in this example.
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- ikidd 3y ago>this is not my first rodeo. I can turn off most of this junk. Most people will never bother or won’t know how or won’t realize that it’s optional. They’ll just learn to tune it out, mostly.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoThey'll learn to tune it out like the ads on the Verge? I'm sorry, but pretending that something is difficult for however many paragraphs he stuffed into these ads is simply not good journalism. Let's ignore that he's complaining about ads in Windows, while writing an ad page.
- ndegruchy 3y agoOnly if you have Windows Pro, for Home (and similar) users, gpedit is missing/unavailable.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoThe same registry keys exist in Home and you can find them with a very small amount of Google effort, even if you can't use the Group Policy editor.
- BearOso 3y agoThere's guides online for using Microsoft's DISM tool to install the Group Policy stuff on Windows Home. There's also some surreptitious tools to change the edition of Windows, but that's more of a gray area.
- smusamashah 3y agoCan you explain more how? Which policy at which path?
- trimethylpurine 3y agoSure. Here's a detailed step by step. https://www.howtogeek.com/742414/how-to-disable-the-widgets-menu-on-windows-11/ https://www.howtogeek.com/742414/how-to-disable-the-widgets-...