Windows 10: Microsoft ads invade Windows 10's File Explorer

Microsoft (just like the banks) can alter their side of the bargain any time they like. *Sad

Hopefully people will start screaming on "farcebook" and "twatter" and MS will panic about the bad publicity.

It's a pity that Windows isn't OSS, because by now we'd have dozens of W7 forks to choose from.

 

Things change every time a new build gets released. Good or bad, that's the way it is now. I'm not sure I like or dislike the way things are going? I'm trying to stay optimistic though.

 

Plus we have Shawn.*Wink
Shawn will fix it, he always does*Smile

 

So far, for me, I haven't had to resort to gpedit or regedit. What I don't like I can turn off via settings or control panel. When that changes I'll resign my MVP status. Plain and simple.

 

I am getting One Drive pop-up ads when I do a "File" > "Save as" especially on Office programs and even on third-party programs. This usually happens just the first time I do a "Save as" in a day. I reboot every day.

JohnD

 

Meanwhile at Microsoft:

 

*What No, they wouldn't?

I'm still not seeing any *Smile

 

Nichts, niets, nothing, nada ads*Cool

 

I haven't seen a single ad ever since the initial install on all my machines. You know the live tiles, that you just have to unpin. That has been it.
Probably because I use the same Microsoft account on all machines, and sync the settings, so all the "informational ads" settings are turned off before Win10 even gets to the desktop the first time. Those who use Local accounts, get what they deserve*092*Devil

 

Pretty much the same here. Although I don't sync everything between every machine. Also have some local accounts and wasn't bothered there also.

 

Good to know*Biggrin If after turning it off in file explorer, they still show, maybe we EU folk have better cards8consumer protection). Just a hypothesis until someone(from EU) says otherwise.

 

I don't see any either....but I use an add blocker (not sure if that has anything to do with it). What I do see from time to time is that damned Edge popup....telling me Edge is x times faster then Chrome and FF.

But none the less, I did uncheck that box for "show sync provider notifications".....nice tip!

 

I've not seen anything in Explorer at all, I do have the option in the settings, (which I switched to off yesterday), I also run either Pro or enterprise on all my systems which may have a more significant effect on any ads (or infomercials), I may see or not by being in the EU, (for a while anyway *Wink *Tongue )

 

I knew I read it somewhere:

How to disable advertising in Windows 10 File Explorer | InfoWorld

 

Depends on how you log on. If you use a local account instead of an MS account, you will probably not see the ads.


PS: I "disabled" this issue when brink released the tutorial -------