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by notarget137 828 days ago
This is borderline trolling. "Candy Crush Saga" or Netflix is on the right side tabs right at the menu on a fresh install. I did install 22H2 a month ago and saw this atrocity. You are simply mistaken. Also News that I don't really care or wish to see.
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maximus-decimus 828 days ago
If you're in the EU, you do have a less shitty version of Windows : https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-microsoft-will-chang...

> Some apps that are bundled with Windows now have the option to be uninstalled. That list includes the Camera, Photos, and Cortana apps. In the EEA only, Windows users will have the option to uninstall Microsoft Edge and the Web Search from the Microsoft Bing component.

You can uninstall Edge, over here Microsoft doesn't even let you open all hyperlinks with something else that edge. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-do...

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FirmwareBurner 828 days ago
How is my experience being different to yours considered trolling?

I don't have Candy Crush or Netflix. Probably because I'm in the EU and didn't connect it to the internet when I installed it.

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jpsouth 828 days ago
Recently bought a Win 11 laptop (past two months), and to any average consumer it was impossible to not connect it to the internet when you first boot it.

It took me, a fairly savvy user, a couple of tries to figure out what was required, which is pressing Shift + F10, opening a terminal, entering a command, hoping for the best. That didn’t work, so I then needed to do the same process a second time and run a second command to open regedit and amend a registry value from 1 to 0. My father wouldn’t have known where to start.

Anyway, the moment it was all installed and hooked up to the internet to update the ads appeared so I downloaded TronScript and gave that a run to remove all the bloatware and ads.

Edit: Also EU.

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