Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows

Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft W... by Tomte on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @04:04PM (#21924726)

> To the best of my knowledge, it's impossible to get a start menu without all the tips and ads without using a 3rd party Windows-10-decrapifyer/debloater kind of thing.

I wonder how I did that. I never install regcleaners or similar tools. I disabled some setting and manually right-clicked and deleted a handful of tiles in the start menu. That was many Windows 10 updates ago. I have never seen anything in my Start menu that I didn't expect to be there since.

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Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft W... by thelazydogsback on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @02:08PM (#21929835)

Just right-click and unpin each item, and there start menu won't even show the panel

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Re:Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft W... by ChrisSD on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @04:29PM (#21924884)

The problem is they could come back (depending on your region) and advertising settings are spread out so you may have to go through the settings disabling them all. Basically any option that's labelled as a "tip" or "suggestion" might be a license to advertise. The start menu one is:

Settings -> Personalisation -> Start -> "Show suggestions occasionally in Start".

There was also an issue with a feature update that reset some settings. Feature updates basically do a reinstall of the OS and then copy your settings back over so sometimes things get missed (accidentally or on purpose, whichever explanation you prefer). The solution is to delay feature updates for at least a week or two. By that time these issues should have been fixed. Personally I delay feature updates for 30 days.

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