Windows 10: How to stop my dad from installing junk apps?

Hi everyone, My dad uses our home desktop mostly to watch movies and videos online. He’s not doing anything complicated, but he’s getting older and sometimes clicks on things he shouldn’t — fake download buttons, sketchy pop-ups, or misleading links. Lately I’ve noticed random programs showing up on his PC, and I’m pretty sure he didn’t install them on purpose. It’s probably some junk or adware sneaking in when he clicks the wrong thing. I’m not very tech-savvy myself, but I’m hoping there’s a way to stop this from happening in the first place — maybe block downloads, prevent unknown apps f

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how do I mark email as junk. My inbox is getting overrun with junk

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern and will guide you in the right direction.

1.Are you referring to mail app or outlook mail?

The Windows 10 modern Mail application is designed with cloud-based e-mail access in mind. E-mail filtering, such as eliminating “spam” or junk mail, is expected to occur at the server side.

If you want to make any changes in the email account or want to turn on the spam guard, you have to do it in the email account which you have configured with Mail apps in Windows 10 (e.g: if you are using yahoo account in
mail apps, you have to configure spam guard in yahoo, This settings will be automatically updated in mail apps)

If you are using outlook account you can follow the below suggestions. Outlook.com has several features to stop receiving junk/phishing messages. In order to filter it, I suggest that you delete them from your contact list
and then you may follow one of the options below:

Method 1: Block a sender or a domain name.

1. Sign in to your account. Go to inbox.

2. Click the Gear icon located at the upper-right side of the page.

3. Select More mail settings.

4. Under Preventing junk email, click Safe and blocked senders.

5. Click Blocked senders.

6. Enter the email address or domain on the box labeled Blocked email address or domain: and click Add to list >>.

Method 2: Set the filtering level of the messages.

Please follow these steps to setup your junk e-mail filter in Outlook.com:



1. Sign in to the Outlook.com website with your Microsoft account.

2. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Gear icon, and then click More mail settings.

3. Under Preventing junk email, click Filters and reporting.

4. Under Filters and reporting, select the options that you want, and then click Save.



Notes:

> If you choose Exclusive for your junk e-mail filter, only messages from e-mail addresses on your Contacts or Allowed senders lists appear in your Inbox. Messages from senders not on those lists are automatically sent to
the Junk e-mail folder.

> You should occasionally check your junk e-mail folder to make sure that good messages are not sent there by mistake.

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

Windows Automatic App Installing, make it stop.

Hi,

When you reinstall Windows, you will install the original programs with it.

This is from the
Easeus website.

Windows system will automatically download and install driver updates and app updates after updating Windows system into new version so to avoid compatible issue. And it’s quite normal for Windows 10 to install new app updates after
the Windows 10 anniversary update. However, unwanted apps may also be installed in your PC. Here in the following passages, you’ll find effective method to stop Windows 10 installing unwanted apps without losing any data.

Recommended: Backup system and data first.

Step 1. Turn off automatic app updates in Windows 10

• Open Store > Click user icon at the top of the screen;

Click Settings and turn off Update apps automatically in App updates section.

Step 2. Block Candy Crush or other unwanted app in Windows 10

Here you have two access to block app update from Registry tweak or block unwanted apps in Windows 10 update. You can either choose one method to block apps in Windows 10 now.

Block app updates from Registry tweak

Press Windows + R, type: regedit
and hit Enter;

Registry Editor file will show up in C:\Windows directory and you can navigate to the folder and run
regedit.exe directly;

Then open Registry Editor and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsStore

Create a new 32-bit DWORD value named AutoDownload and set it to 2 to disable app auto-update;

After this, restart Windows 10.

Block unwanted apps including Candy Crush from Windows 10 update

• Press Win + R and open Run dialog;
• Type: secpol.msc and hit Enter;
• Local Security Policy app will appear and select Application Control Policies in the letf, then click Applocker;
• Click Packaged app Rules, right click the right pane and select
  Create new rule;
• Click Next when the Create new rule wizard shows up;
• On the Permissions page, set Action to
  Deny, leave User or Group as Everyone;
• Click Next, click Use an installed packaged app as reference >
  Select;
• Select Windows Spotlight(Microsoft.Windows.ContentDeliveryManager) and click OK in the app list;
• Move the slider to the Package Name option as shown below, then click Create.

After these steps, your PC won’t install automatic updates or apps without permission anymore. If you want to install new updates or apps, you’ll need to manually download and install in your PC.

What about those already existed apps? You can removed them! How?Follow Step 3 to do it now.

Step 3. Clean-up junk files including unwanted apps from Windows 10

Those unwanted apps which have already been downloaded and installed in PC won’t be removed by blocking Windows 10 from installing app updates. Therefore, you may have one more step to clean up and remove unwanted apps in PC.

EaseUS Partition Master (Free Trial version) will make it simple and easy for you to clean up all junk files including unwanted files by simple clicks:

1. Launch EaseUS Partition Master and click Cleanup and Optimization. Then choose
Junk File Cleanup.

2. Then you can click Analyze to let EaseUS Partition Master to find junk files in your PC.



3. You can check and choose junk files including unwanted apps such as Candy Crush etc. and click
Clean up.

All selected junk files and unwanted apps will be cleaned and thoroughly removed from your PC then.

 

Junk Mail folder in Windows 10 mail is not called "Junk Mail"

Hi Gordon,

The issue regarding Junk Email named as HM_BulkMail_ may have occurred due to some changes in the settings or an update in the Mail app is not compatible with the device. To isolate your concern, we'd like to ask the following:

• What's the domain name of the email account you're using in Mail app?
  
• Have you made any recent changes prior to the issue?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

In the meantime, we suggest that you run the Windows app troubleshooter to check and resolve any application issues. To do this, click on this
link.

Kindly update us with the result and let us know if you need further help.