Windows 11: Good lord, what is that company doing to its OS

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Windows 11: Good lord, what is that company doing to its OS

Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

I'm setting up a new one of those Mini PCs as a personal web server / media center. It comes with Windows 11 Pro installed....the search panel keeps panel pops up with all this dumb NFL crap, US news stories, and lovely app links. Can I turn all this poo poo off?

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Cyril Sneer: Aug 8, 2004; Life would be simple in the forest except for Cyril Sneer. And his life would be simple except for The Raccoons.

Quixzlizx posted:

You might want to reinstall from a clean Windows image, who knows what kind of crap the OEM crammed into the default install.

You're not wrong, though I'm planning to switch to Linux once I play around with it a bit.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 00:27

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