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> Are these ads only bundled with a certain versions of Windows?

Yes. Enterprise customers can get builds without them, but home users can't.



I keep hearing that, but I still see plenty of ads (and other dark patterns like data collection you can't turn off) in Enterprise builds.

I heard Win10 LTSC was somewhat better so I'm hoping there will be a Win11 LTSC coming out at some time with longer support.


You can absolutely turn off everything, but you don’t change those settings on the Win10 enterprise machines themselves. You can, technically, but it’s registry stuff. You put the machines in an Active Directory domain and you configure group policy to turn those things off, and you push those policies to the workstations in the domain.

This is 100% normal everyday stuff for enterprise customers, and an enormous pain in the ass for someone who pirates Windows Enterprise.


I'm running Windows 11 Home 23H2 22631.3737

No ads - like anywhere.




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