The 5 worst Windows 11 distractions and how to stop them

[Admin]

Windows 11 throws ads, unwanted web links, and annoying news headlines in your face. Here’s how to turn them off.

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[_dawn_chorus_]

THANK YOU. Valuable article. I had all of these changed but the "finish setting up Win" and the online results in my search bar but my god I hated those.
Great info

 

[Opticalla]

Thank you so much for this article! I was wondering how my personal computer never showed the onboarding pop up anymore yet the other computers in my house sometimes do. Apparently I had forgotten how I turned it off, so I just turned it all off for the other computers in the house, thanks!

Quick tip when disabling start menu web search if you want it to apply to all users.
If you want it to apply to all users on the computer and not just the current user, makes sure to create it in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key location instead of HKEY_CURRENT_USER which will show up like this:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer

for the regedit path.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

or weird stuff like people claiming they’ve had near-death experiences.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that Microsoft/Bing thinks is obsessed with death.

 

[mitch074]

Or get some scripts/software like O&O ShutUp10 to do that for you in a couple clicks - especially since Microsoft tends to reset those settings with every update.

 

[Blastomonas]

Thanks for the useful and fun article. I'm struggling to get my head around what Windows is becoming. Unfortunately, After using Windows for nearly 30 years, I am well and truly conditioned. I keep wondering what is stopping me from switching..

 

[Rabohinf]

Sophia Script for Windows on Github.

 

[Snookums]

This is one of the best articles I've read in a long time. I'm an author, I search a lot. Including for files in my drives, and I don't want to be distracted by nonsense. THANK YOU! I really appreciate these kinds of articles to make the windows experience what it should be instead of what MS wants to make money off of us.