In an unmodified windows it would also show random tabloid news from MSN or affiliates inside the start menu...
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sub office 365 for access to ms movie store.
Without these ads how will they fund copilot for 12 more minutes genius?
I always dug into RegEdit to disable this crap. And somehow, each time, it was a different series of steps.
Gpedit: registry keys come and go, group policy is forever
It's no longer meant to be used by computer savvy people. It's meant for consumers. Literally. People that just consume and do not produce or think.
We are walking a different path now and need to say goodbye to windows and Microsoft.
They paid people good money to design and crate that.
they paid people money to vibe code that as fast as possible
This is why I have a custom shell on my work PC. This is the kind of shit search interface where the local hits pop up quickly after you typed but then jump away to display irrelevant guff like this just as youβre clicking on what you wanted.
Litestep was the shit years and years ago!! Last I looked into replacing explorer with a custom shell, litestep was pretty abandoned. What shell are you using? Are there multiple options nowadays?
Explorer7 is decent, allows the Win7 explorer to be used on Win8/10/11. https://github.com/world-windows-federation/explorer7
For an actual custom shell there's xoblite https://xoblite.net/shell/ tho I haven't used it personally. I just use bbZero https://archive.org/details/bbZero_install_1.18.0-rc6_mojmir, this still works on Win10 though UWP stuff are broken.
I didn't think you could still get decent custom shells on Windows these days. What do you use?
What I do still have on my one Windows machine I need for a (staunchly annoying Windows only) company I do work for is a launcher program that I have been using for well over a decade. Super resource light and simple. I just don't use the start menu at all.
I use Revision from revi.cc
Basic start menu, fewer notifications, lots of options. There's a slider to disable windows updates, but they still get through sometimes
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My main gripe with this travesty of a "Start menu" is that it isn't the Tom Hanks movie of a similar name.
The other is that even if it were, it won't just play, but rather send you to the shiniest new subscription service to subscribe.
Call me old fashioned, but to me a search in the computers task bar should be a search in LOCAL files only. If I want to find random shit from the Internet I would use a proper search engine. Right now, windows search is just rubbish for both local files and Internet content.
My main gripe with this travesty of a "Start menu" is that it isn't the Tom Hanks movie of a similar name.
IKR? Probably because that one is called The Terminal and this trash "search" can't even look around articles.
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