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Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook (www.heise.de)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There’s a registry key to turn off the button.

Of course it's a registry key.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A registry key which is probably reset every 3rd update anyway, as usual.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Don't even need the damn button. Yesterday while playing some fullscreen game with critical network usage (CSGO) my windows 10 with edited group policies and registry keys to block updates just switched to the outlook from the old mail program and ran it in the foreground (behind the game).

Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about the user consent, the settings for updates, settings for game focus, out-of-the-way advanced user controls etc. These settings don't even need to be defaulted without consent via updates, it seems they outright don't work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Had a similar issue where my computer (w10) would restart while I was away and update my gpu driver which would crash regularly. There's two different places in windows where you can disable this, one in general and one for specifically the device. None of them worked. Basically was forced to do the whole restart to safe mode -> destroy driver -> restart -> install driver -> restart every day. What solved it was a gpo but at that point I was so fed up I ended up switching to Linux

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Oof. If you aren't using them, you can uninstall the default included MS Store Apps with PowerShell. Could have saved you some trouble.

I was going to say I had a similar setup and didn't get that update, but I remembered I had uninstalled the mail app.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Do you mean CS2? I wish I could still play csgo....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I heard you still can through the beta tab?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but you can't play because all of the official servers are offline. Only custom servers I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That sucks. I barely even played the original. Only just sort of got into multiplayer gaming.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, it's intended for companies, so for them there's InTune policies or is GPOs. For us plebs, we just have to not press the button.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

GPOs

Group policy can be modified by a laymen by launching gpedit.msc from Super+R or the start menu.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not on Home edition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Not on Home edition

You can do it on home. Takes a lot of googling and monkeying around, but I did it on my father's computer years ago.