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I just got a pop up ad from Windows, for PC gaming and buy their Xbox controller. (lemmy.ca)

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

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A Windows pop up, right above the system tray. Holy fuck. I would have screen shot it but I was in disbelief.

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[-] [email protected] 91 points 9 months ago

System > Notifications & actions > uncheck/turn off anything you don't want. (Meaning disable everything because screw them)

Personalization > Lock screen > turn off fun facts. (Th y are far from fun...nobody cares)

Personalization > Start > turn off 'show suggestions occaisionally...'

Personalization > Taskbar > turn off news and interests if you're not interested.

Privacy > General > switch off all 4 things.

Privacy > go through every single category in the left-hand column and turn off anything you don't want. (Again, disable it all..)

[-] jws_shadotak 62 points 9 months ago

The amount of tinkering required to get Windows to function as I want is increasing, while the same for Linux is decreasing. Eventually they'll cross and that's when I'll switch.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

I just used their own firewall to block all the Microsoft ads URLs. I even changed my DNS server to the adguard one so I don't see ads anywhere. That's for the one laptop I have with Windows on it. My main desktop and other laptop both run Linux.

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

Poetic 👌

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"penquin" is there for a reason 😁

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

nice, maybe try in a pendrive someday or another just to see how things are going

[-] jws_shadotak 1 points 9 months ago

I did recently. I backed up my boot drive and then loaded a Ubuntu distro. That was a mistake because of the snap store but other than that, it still didn't work as well as I'd hoped. I had trouble with Lutris installing the blizz launcher and I gave up after an hour of troubleshooting and reverted back to Win10.

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

urg blizz launcher, i think heroic launcher could help you with that, but yeah non native software is a pain

and that's why you test a pedrive and in dual boot first, so you always have windows to revert, itss anothwr OS after all, if you try again test it in dual boot(and fuck snap lol)

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

I switched about a year ago. Not because Linux got better, but because MS got worse.

I'm tired of Cortana. The fact that they try to force Edge onto my PC is absolutely infuriating. And I'm tired of these Windows updates constantly breaking my bug fixes. Never even tried W11 but I hear it's much worse (unsurprisingly).

[-] jws_shadotak 1 points 9 months ago

I have a little bit of incentive to stay on Windows since all my work is on Windows. The DoD websites I have to access require Edge 90% of the time. One of them actually doesn't work on anything but Internet Explorer...

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

It's absolutely insane how many things need turning off to gain some modicum of privacy with win10, I refuse to upgrade but imagine it's worse in win11.

Totally understand the love for Linux. If my audio interface & DAW were compatible I would investigated switching way back. There are other interfaces which appear to be compatible, and other DAWs, but I am highly proficient in the one I've used for ~15 years and don't want to invest time learning a new one; and my audio interface lets me use very, very high end emulations of hardware (UAD).

Seriously considering Linux for potential future live PA work though. Stability is appealing for live stuff!

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

I'm in the same boat; audio production/composition, otherwise i'd be using Linix too.

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

I take it the Macs are burgers since you know Windows so well?

[-] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

Wtf? At least you didn't pay for windows right? Crack goes brrrrr

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

I didn't. Not will I ever.

[-] transientpunk 28 points 9 months ago

I don't know why people are surprised when a for-profit company prioritizes profits over their customers...

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

I was actually quite happy to pay for Windows all these years... it's when they went "free" that this BS started. Go back to a paid model and give us vanilla windows, please!

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

Can't have profit if you lose all your customers.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Can't make the quarterly numbers with that kind of long-term thinking.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

They won't because they are the industry standard. That's the problem with tech these days, there is barely any competition

[-] Secret300 1 points 9 months ago

If they lose customers they'll just try to exploit the few they have left. As more people switch to another OS windows is going to get worse and worse.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago

They bought the ticket, but don't want the ride for some reason.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

I've been using Shut Up 10 by O&O Software for ages now. Turns off all recommended telemetry and you can go a step further and disable a ton of stuff, basically anything irksome that M$ pulls.

It's free as well. I haven't noted any negative issues with it. Also works on Win 11

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I love ShutUp10. Like you, I have used it for years now with zero problems. It places many different settings and options into one single app. The same settings that Microsoft likes to hide from us by scattering arbitrarily it all over Settings, Control Panel, the registry, etc.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

How does it compare to Win Aero Tweaker?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Wish I knew, never used it! I only ever used Shut Up 10, as prior to 10, the telemetry wasn't as prominent, or at least seemingly so.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

PSA: hotkey for screenshot in windows 10 is (windowsLogoKey)-shift-S

Then you click and drag to select a rectangle.

It’s basically a shortcut to the Snip program.

After you’ve captured the screenshot, you can:

just hit ctrl-V to paste it into any place that can accept a pasted image: email, some chat programs, google drive, Paint, etc
Click on the notification in the lower right. If the notification has already disappeared (it fades away after a few seconds), you can click on the Notifications icon (looks like cartoon chat bubble) in lower right and it’s in the list that shows.

If you click on it in notifications you get a whole window dedicated to editing the screenshot — drawing on it, cropping it, adding text — and then from there you can save it to a file or copy the newly edited image to your clipboard

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

Also works for win11. And also i can recommand windows powertoys and devtoys for all kinds of nifty stuff like renaming multiple files, using one mouse and keyboard over multiple pcs and getting Text out of pictures.

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

Or you could use the shortcut and just press Win+PrtSc

That's it your done. There is now an image file saved to your pictures/screenshot folder

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

$10 says it wouldn’t show on the screenshot anyway.

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

Crappy phone photo to the rescue! Can't stop that.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

me too while playing Minecraft. now using Ubuntu 23.04, MC with GPU, VS Codium and FF. no problems.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Happened to me on a recent Windows update too. A popup about Game Pass and a Bethesda game I'm no longer buying.

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

Yep..... The same Bethesda game happened to show up in a screensaver. Money grubbing assholes!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Windows 10 or windows 11?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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

Home or enterprise?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I got it on enterprise Win10 22H2 today. Just nuts

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

Yeah. The only reason I asked about home vs enterprise was to see which advice would be more useful. Enterprise gives you more control to turn things off at the system level. I agree. It is nuts.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Home.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Damn. With enterprise you can go into the command line and just turn off all the stuff including Cortana. With home things are a lot harder. Someone else in the comments talked about disabling a bunch of stuff and that may be your best bet.

You might try this. https://www.howtogeek.com/269331/how-to-disable-all-of-windows-10s-built-in-advertising/

this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023

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