The madness of releases

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PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley This month’s security updates for Windows 11 include some major changes. Alas, they don’t include one major wish item tha
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This month’s made me not do my usual wait-a-month. Is the next one “try-a-preview”? We ARE getting impatient for these fixes ! And 11 is supposed to be 1/yr?

I did have a report on my MS community thread that MS weather department is going to work on the not-on-lockscreen problem, but I guess I’ll believe it when I see it – no offense MS.

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Microsoft is inserting ads into File Explorer (Insider build)

Windows 11 users may soon see more ads in the system’s default file browser File Explorer..

It appears that Microsoft is using File Explorer to advertise some of its products. Another user replied stating that Microsoft was suggesting to “check out PowerPoint templates on the official website” in File Explorer.

The new attempt to cross-promote its products in Windows is not the first run at displaying ads in File Explorer. Back in 2017, Microsoft started to advertise its OneDrive service in File Explorer on Windows 10 devices..

The advertisement was not the first to show up on Windows 10 devices. Users spotted ads in various locations, including the lockscreen, the start menu, the share menu, and the taskbar…

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there are ads, sometimes 3 of them in lockscreen spotlight option, for edge. I now use slideshow – no ads.

As to explorer, if ads show up I will just shift to an alternative. Easy peasy.

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Is a tip/suggestion drawing attention to totally free and very useful add-ons like Microsoft Editor or PowerPoint templates really an “advertisement … to cross-promote its products”? Not IMHO.

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I am reminded of PBS and its “infomercials” which are nothing but ads to sell stuff (CDs, DVDs, etc) but can be explained away by some as being “useful”.

Perhaps not call it an “ad” but call it something you would prefer not to be constantly reminded of? I know edge exists so I don’t need 3 notes on a lockscreen page reminding me and urging me to click-on-a-link .

When I use slideshow on lockscreen, there is a setting: “get fun facts, tips, and tricks,…” which, if you leave it checked, will ask you if you want tech tips for your plants(timers to remind you to water them), or UNESCO info, etc, which, if you click on them, is opened by edge, which encourages you to set timers, etc, all controlled by edge. So if you like that, then you have the choice to leave it checked, or not, as you wish. I suppose out of some 7 billion folks, some users probably like edge.

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There are many “features” in Windows 10/11 that I personally neither need nor want, so I eliminate  them.  I want Windows to be a platform where I use programs/apps/tools to accomplish those things that I do want to accomplish.

I am not one who feels duty bound to use the Windows menu, so I don’t.  Within 5 minutes of upgrading Windows 10 to Windows 11 I installed StartAllBack.  I don’t see any of those menu aggravations Susan wrote about; they’re not an issue for me.

I don’t get “suggestions” in File Explorer.  I don’t see “suggestions” anywhere at all, for that matter.  Windows does not get in my way of doing the things I want to do.  I spent most of last week converting old 35mm slides to .jpg images using a slide/film scanner, and used Photos to adjust brightness, exposure, saturation, highlights and shadows in order to get them looking like they are supposed to look.  The dyes in old 35mm Ektachrome tend to over saturate toward red over long periods.  And Kodachrome over saturates toward blue.

Which is to say that I opened and closed File Explorer and Photos literally hundreds of times and yet did not see the first “suggestion” from Microsoft about anything.  My personal suggestion is that if one doesn’t like some things that Windows is doing, there are likely other folks who don’t, either, and more than likely a solution is available to eliminate some of those things.

Always create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates; you may need to start over!

We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do with our systems; we don't need anyone's approval, and we don't all have to do the same things.

We were all once "Average Users".

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Yeah but I loved Ektachrome! Only thing I would shoot.

I will try startallback – gotta go image first.
EDIT: looks good, THANKS!

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From Susan’s 3/14/22 on new “features” in Windows 11:

Adds the clock and date to the taskbars of other monitors when you connect a secondary monitor (this was already an option in Windows 10);

I don’t have a Windows 11 machine on dual monitors so I wondering if Microsoft is forcing the clock and date to taskbars on secondary monitors, not to mention forcing the task bar itself?  It would not be surprising if it did.

Redmond seems hell-bent on forcing people to use Windows in exactly the way it thinks they should.  Proof: the total emasculation of the Start Menu and Taskbar.

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a wrote:

When I use slideshow on lockscreen, there is a setting: “get fun facts, tips, and tricks,…”

Interestingly, if you force Ctrl+Alt+Del to sign in, those ads go away.

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