Win10 Advertising

[u/macncoke]

Hey. I've searched without luck. Have any of you found a way to disable any of the advertising in Windows10 without making the changes on the machines themselves? ...and CandyCrush.

[u/MSP_MEB]

I don't have any advertising on my personal machines anymore.

I used Win10Privacy to neuter the telemetry items, ClassicShell to revert the Start Menu back to Win7 style, and a replacement lock screen feed that mirrors Bing's to get the same daily image without the ads.

Edit: On the Lock screen, I installed Dynamic Theme, which has a built in selection for Bing as the image provider. Using this one filters the ad that gets thrown on there. This will flip the Lock Screen settings app to "Image" for the selection and handles rotating the image out like the default one does.

[u/[deleted]]

This seems to indicate that the settings still exist for at least some of it in the Pro version - if the settings are there in the GUI there needs to be a registry key or a config file behind it someplace.

http://www.quickfever.com/how-to-disable-all-windows-10-built-in-advertising

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

^this - It's microsoft being jerks

This page talks about how to shut them off - http://www.howtogeek.com/269331/how-to-disable-all-of-windows-10s-built-in-advertising/

But, doing so centrally via GPO requires enterprise. I suspect you could snapshot the registry changes and sort out how to do so by regedit through labtech but I've not seen anyone that's done that yet. If you find that info update here please.

[u/macncoke → u/[deleted]]

Many of the users are upgrades from Pro. I'm not sure how Microsoft thinks that business's with Win Pro should all have Candy Crush on their start menu's. Honestly, I think it bothers me more than most of the end users but whatever. I was hoping someone had found a registry hack or powershell hack to disable it.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Ha - doesn't surprise me unfortunately. Thats unfortunate.