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Microsoft tries to convince Windows 10 users to buy a new PC with full-screen prompts
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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Has anybody found a way to turn Microsoft's ads off yet? I'm tired of dismissing their prompts to switch to Edge and Office 365 every few months.
Yes, but you won't like to hear it...
I installed Linux one time and now im a cat girl
Go on….
Don’t listen to them, I installed Linux multiple times and I‘m still a fat nerd
…go on…
Who said a cat girl cant be a fat nerd
sigh
gets his Ventoy USB drive ready for a new ISO...
As an experiment I revoked the certificate that is used for code verification on the executable responsible for the popups. So far the only thing I broke was the .net installer. But no more pop-ups. :D
I run a local account and toggled off all the telemetry stuff during installation nine years ago. Never saw one of those. Didn't even get toggled on with updates. Only problem I had was Copilot getting added a few weeks ago. By that time, Win10 had become the compatibility fallback for Linux, though.
So, create a local account, go into Settings, and toggle off everything that could maybe be telemetry related.
O&O Shutup for Windows is also a solid tool for disabling telemetry and bloat. They have a recommended set of options to flip, all of which can be flipped at once, which is real damn convenient.