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[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Do you just need an adblock extension on chrome? Should be an easy fix. Or the O&O shutup program may work as well, have used that in the past effectively.

I use Chrome on Windows and have never seen this, or at least, not for years so hard to know where the setting is to disable exactly.

Lol @ the responses saying to switch OS. Such extreme views.

[–] progettarsi@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

idk what this is i've never encountered it, but if it's a web page u can just block it with ublock

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

It's not. It's a Microsoft signed executable that gets dumped in the temp directory and run. I was pretty angry when it popped up (not least because Windows had just bluescreened while trying to resume from hibernation - hibernation because modern sleep is shit). Rather then hunt down exactly how Microsoft got it onto "my" system, I just killed it and got on with my day.

It's a work laptop but I'm sorely tempted to drop NixOS on it anyway.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Can we make a windows tech support community? I'm really sick of people barging in and asking to fix their anti-consumer spyware OS.

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Have you tried clicking "Don't switch"?

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[–] xengi@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

Uninstall windows. Done.

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