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  • Re: AI-WX Weather Door I

    From Tiny@VERT/PHARCYDE to Mro on Mon Sep 29 05:23:46 2025
    Hi Mro,
    In a message to Lonewolf you wrote:

    i'm not that eager to run windows 11. i have not hit any roadblocks
    and i'm not a big gamer. i can still play newer games most of the
    time as well.

    My laptop came with 11... I don't see a huge difference between it and
    10, other then the ads that windows 11 has. I did something a while back
    and no longer see the ads.

    My desktop was a windows 7 machine. I got a free windows 8 key when they
    gave them away, got a free windows 10 key the same way, and windows 11 was
    also a free update. I didn't want to upgrade the desktop, but I forgot
    to disable windows update. LOL

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Tiny on Mon Sep 29 12:01:41 2025
    Re: Re: AI-WX Weather Door I
    By: Tiny to Mro on Mon Sep 29 2025 05:23 am

    My laptop came with 11... I don't see a huge difference between it and 10, other then the ads that windows 11 has. I did something a while back and no longer see the ads.

    I don't know what I may have done, but I haven't seen any ads in Windows 11.. Maybe it's because I upgraded from Windows 10. I also had a work laptop that had Windows 11 installed on it, and I didn't see any ads on that either.

    Nightfox

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  • From Accession@VERT/PHARCYDE to Nightfox on Mon Sep 29 15:43:42 2025
    Hey Nightfox!

    On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:01:40 -0700, you wrote:

    I don't know what I may have done, but I haven't seen any ads in Windows 11.. Maybe it's because I upgraded from Windows 10. I also had a work laptop that had Windows 11 installed on it, and I didn't see any ads on
    that either.

    I'm guessing it has something to do with the installation process. If you "accidentally" hit enter to choose to receive ads from Microsoft while going through the initial setup, you probably have to manually turn it off later.

    When I installed, I specifically disabled all of that stuff, including sending them information, and whatever else they did to try to have some sort of connection to your personal computer. To this day, every time I update, I get a nag telling me "you haven't finished setting up your computer yet," as far as an MS account, probably some 365 crap, etc. I just hit "remind me later" and it doesn't remind me again until another update. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Accession on Mon Sep 29 14:48:51 2025
    Re: AI-WX Weather Door I
    By: Accession to Nightfox on Mon Sep 29 2025 03:43 pm

    I don't know what I may have done, but I haven't seen any ads in Windows
    11.. Maybe it's because I upgraded from Windows 10. I also had a work
    laptop that had Windows 11 installed on it, and I didn't see any ads on
    that either.

    I'm guessing it has something to do with the installation process. If you "accidentally" hit enter to choose to receive ads from Microsoft while going through the initial setup, you probably have to manually turn it off later.

    When I installed, I specifically disabled all of that stuff, including sending them information, and whatever else they did to try to have some sort of connection to your personal computer. To this day, every time I update, I get a nag telling me "you haven't finished setting up your computer yet," as far as an MS account, probably some 365 crap, etc. I just hit "remind me later" and it doesn't remind me again until another update. ;)

    Yeah, during the installation, when it got to the privacy section, I turned off anything I could as far as sending data and whatever else it had there. :)

    Nightfox

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Nightfox on Tue Sep 30 08:35:39 2025
    Re: Re: AI-WX Weather Door I
    By: Nightfox to Tiny on Mon Sep 29 2025 12:01 pm

    I don't know what I may have done, but I haven't seen any ads in Windows 11. Maybe it's because I upgraded from Windows 10. I also had a work laptop tha

    The ads they're referring to may be the ones for other Microsoft products or services (OneDrive?). You must've seen those.

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Accession on Tue Sep 30 08:38:08 2025
    Re: AI-WX Weather Door I
    By: Accession to Nightfox on Mon Sep 29 2025 03:43 pm

    connection to your personal computer. To this day, every time I update, I ge nag telling me "you haven't finished setting up your computer yet," as far a an MS account, probably some 365 crap, etc. I just hit "remind me later" and

    Yeah, I get that same crap. I always uncheck and disable everything during installation. If there's an option, I try to keep it from going online.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to phigan on Tue Sep 30 09:27:07 2025
    Re: Re: AI-WX Weather Door I
    By: phigan to Nightfox on Tue Sep 30 2025 08:35 am

    I don't know what I may have done, but I haven't seen any ads in Windows
    11. Maybe it's because I upgraded from Windows 10. I also had a work
    laptop tha

    The ads they're referring to may be the ones for other Microsoft products or services (OneDrive?). You must've seen those.

    No, I don't recall seeing those..

    Nightfox

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