Windows 10 Anniversary Update will double the number of Start Menu ads

[Darth Shiv]

Microsoft is tired of having customers.

Yep customers are the worst!

 

[Mercosity]

Step one when installing Windows 10, install Classic Shell so you don't have to look at any of that crap in the start menu.

Step two, disable all the telemetry that comes enabled by default.

Step three, disable the auto updates so you never get inconvenienced by a restart for no reason.

Step four, enjoy what is essentially Windows 7, with exception to the additional settings panel, but you still have the old control panel so it's not such a big deal to me anymore.

It's still disgusting that Microsoft feels they have the right to do this and force promoted apps on the general public, this is the real problem, people who don't know any better that are being taken advantage of without knowing how to protect themselves, and or disable all this crap.

Sounds like skipping step one all together is the easiest way to avoid the crap that's going to come down the win 10 pipe,I've been an insider,installed on 4,rolling back a second one now, I may keep it on one just for shits and giggles ,and to prove a point.

so I installed with the gpu on the 3570 k, then tried to jnstall a graphics card later ,and the system keeps hanging on boot,do I have to uninstall the onboard gpu driver(don't remember installing one)to install a dedicated gpu?or install again with the dedicated gpu in the system..? I never had this issue before,anyone else?

Fixy:- Shutdown. Put the video card(vc) in slot. Close up. Switch PC on again. PC may automatically pick up vc. If it doesn't it should pick up the onboard. Download IObit DriverBooster and run it. Update any out of date drivers. If you have plugged the vc in correctly DriverBooster should download and install all the drivers your system needs. Set DriverBooster to restart the PC/Laptop. Go have a cup of tea, take a walk. If the new vc doesn't operate now you may need to check your BIOS..........

 

[Ascaris]

Currently I see absolutely NO advertisement for anything, my system uses about the same amount of RAM as it did when running Windows 7 but it is faster in some regards, starting up and shutting down in particular, but my old Windows 7 OS had gotten pretty janky due to the hundreds and hundreds of updates it had over the years.

I don't doubt that you've gotten rid of all of the crap-- I did too on my Win 10 test machine. I was just responding to the "never saw any ads" statement people were making by pointing out the sheer number of ads that are in there (some of which most people don't immediately recognize as ads) from the start. I find it unacceptable that MS would load the OS with ads in that way, but that's hardly the worst part about Windows 10.

I don't think it is the hundreds of updates that made your Windows 7 janky, though. I'm on Windows 7 now, fully updated (with a few exceptions... namely any update that mentions "the latest version of Windows"), and it's not janky at all, on my Sandy Bridge main PC or my Core 2 Duo laptop. It's fast and smooth on both. There's not really much of a difference between Windows 10 and 7 in terms of how quick they feel on either; there are a few things that 10 seems to do a bit faster, but it's not a huge difference.

Windows 10 should be a bit faster than 7 in general, but a lot of the improvement people are reporting is probably more about having a fresh Windows install vs. one that is several years old in 7. Windows is prone to gradually get slower over the years; some even go so far as to reinstall Windows fresh periodically (which I personally have not done since the Windows 95 days). They call it Windows rot. Personally, I think it's the years of accumulated adware, malware, other PUAs, bits and pieces of programs that didn't uninstall cleanly left in the file system or in the registry, as well as general corruption in the registry or elsewhere.

 

[Sancticide]

It takes like 30-45 second to login before removing them 1-by-1 with CCleaner because you can't uninstall many of them with Windows.

If they don't let you uninstall via right-click, you could also use a PowerShell script -- http://www.askvg.com/guide-how-to-remove-all-built-in-apps-in-windows-10/

Just be aware that removing the Store itself makes it hard to get it back, so leave that be.

 

[Raoul Duke]

The irony of having the Get Office ad when I already use Office Home and Business 2016. WTF they want me to subscribe at the same time LOL

 

[needforsuv]

Stop turning windows into andriod, overloaded with bloat useless and needlessly complicated
keep it simple keep it iOS keep it WIN 7

 

[Tribalcheetah]

To be honest, as long as you can disable it - what is the problem?...

There is no problem.

People will make issues out of anything. Like not being able to use the bathroom they want.

Guarantee you almost no one will even notice the ads, as most users use programs linked to the desktop, and not under the start menu. The only time I use the start menu is to shut down my computer.

 

[Boilerhog146]

so I installed with the gpu on the 3570 k, then tried to jnstall a graphics card later ,and the system keeps hanging on boot,do I have to uninstall the onboard gpu driver(don't remember installing one)to install a dedicated gpu?or install again with the dedicated gpu in the system..? I never had this issue before,anyone else?

Well unfortunately that is what Windows 10 does with new hardware, it'll install the best available driver, sometimes it's the right one, other times not so much. Now in itself that should not be causing the issue you are having, as far as I know you can use multiple GPUs of different makes and have done so, but I have not tested this with an integrated GPU on the CPU. Why this would be different I don't really know but this is a question you should be asking on the forums. You might get more help there, personally I would try to uninstall the integrated GPU driver via device manager, reboot into the bios and turn off the on board GPU. Then install the dedicated GPU and try to boot, if still no luck then I'd look at the graphics card being part of the issue. Again start a thread in the forums section for further help.

Step one when installing Windows 10, install Classic Shell so you don't have to look at any of that crap in the start menu.

Step two, disable all the telemetry that comes enabled by default.

Step three, disable the auto updates so you never get inconvenienced by a restart for no reason.

Step four, enjoy what is essentially Windows 7, with exception to the additional settings panel, but you still have the old control panel so it's not such a big deal to me anymore.

It's still disgusting that Microsoft feels they have the right to do this and force promoted apps on the general public, this is the real problem, people who don't know any better that are being taken advantage of without knowing how to protect themselves, and or disable all this crap.

Sounds like skipping step one all together is the easiest way to avoid the crap that's going to come down the win 10 pipe,I've been an insider,installed on 4,rolling back a second one now, I may keep it on one just for shits and giggles ,and to prove a point.

so I installed with the gpu on the 3570 k, then tried to jnstall a graphics card later ,and the system keeps hanging on boot,do I have to uninstall the onboard gpu driver(don't remember installing one)to install a dedicated gpu?or install again with the dedicated gpu in the system..? I never had this issue before,anyone else?

Fixy:- Shutdown. Put the video card(vc) in slot. Close up. Switch PC on again. PC may automatically pick up vc. If it doesn't it should pick up the onboard. Download IObit DriverBooster and run it. Update any out of date drivers. If you have plugged the vc in correctly DriverBooster should download and install all the drivers your system needs. Set DriverBooster to restart the PC/Laptop. Go have a cup of tea, take a walk. If the new vc doesn't operate now you may need to check your BIOS..........

I didn't mean to hijack the thread, it was an upgrade to 10 from 7, the cards were all ready installed ,but were removed on the test bed cause I was having random reboots,,in power saver mode I was able to get windows to upgrade,however when I reassembled the rig with the cards I get the hang ,can't find a driver to uninstall ,no restore points to try,z77 sabertooth has the lucid logics chip which allows to use the igpu,when not gaming ,then the cards when needed,

anyway the igpu apparently has failed and is now artifacting,thanks to paying for IPR (instant product replacement) that I purchased extra,board and cpu are going back for upgrade,unless they still have same kit around,just wondered if anyone else had similar issues on the windows 10 upgrade.,,

I also notice no aero glass ,most eyecandy has been stripped,so it can run on any hardware,I no eyecandy I no like, its ok for a work machine I guess,which is why I liked Vista ,There, I typed that out loud.lol.it was hard on resources ,but it was pretty,,dreamscenes and gadgets..

can classic shell be installed after the upgrade?

 

[FroStyNeavus]

They are not ads from the Start Menu.They are ads from the applications.I guess if you remove these application from the start menu the ads will be gone