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I have two machines in the household that use Windows 10 -- my flagship desktop PC, and my old laptop.
The flagship PC is the center for all my day-to-day business. For a household of three elderly people, I manage ten bank accounts, budget and disburse bill payments, manage our automobile repairs and consult factory shop manuals, archive all incoming medical, real-estate and financial documents in a document management system, oversee most of our e-mail activity, shop for everything from groceries to adult diapers to PC and automobile parts. It's integral to my life and facilitates the daily lives of my family.
I recently had a motherboard go south on this system, and I spared nothing to get it all back up and running in an improved, better-than-before configuration. Nothing was lost.
Sometime over the last three or four months, my machine had a Windows feature upgrade which changed the way EDGE works together with my desktop.
It somehow grabbed the "Loading . . . " screen of my Assetto Corsa racing simulator, so that I may leave the machine for a period of time and find it staring at me with the time boldly displayed on the lower left of the monitor screen. A mouse-click -- or two -- makes it disappear like a curtain rising on a stage, leaving my desktop visible again. Other times, I notice that this same feature displays a page of advertisements, suggested links and pictures I never asked for, never wanted. It, too, disappears with a mouse click.
I want to get rid of this behavior. I've poked around a bit in EDGE to try and find out where it might be configured, but -- no cigar. Maybe it's some feature of Cortana. But I just don't know where to go to turn the f***ing thing off.
There was a time decades ago when I could do things in MSDOS that amazed even me. When Windows first came along -- 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98 . . . . through Win 7 -- I felt like I had control of with the OS was doing. Now, Windows 10 seems to behave like my US Mail, filled with local commercial business solicitations and advertisements, real-estate promotions wanting to buy my house, and all that garbage that takes time to sort out and throw away in the trash can before returning to my house.
Does anybody know what I'm talking about, and does anyone have any insight about how to get rid of it?
Thank you.
The flagship PC is the center for all my day-to-day business. For a household of three elderly people, I manage ten bank accounts, budget and disburse bill payments, manage our automobile repairs and consult factory shop manuals, archive all incoming medical, real-estate and financial documents in a document management system, oversee most of our e-mail activity, shop for everything from groceries to adult diapers to PC and automobile parts. It's integral to my life and facilitates the daily lives of my family.
I recently had a motherboard go south on this system, and I spared nothing to get it all back up and running in an improved, better-than-before configuration. Nothing was lost.
Sometime over the last three or four months, my machine had a Windows feature upgrade which changed the way EDGE works together with my desktop.
It somehow grabbed the "Loading . . . " screen of my Assetto Corsa racing simulator, so that I may leave the machine for a period of time and find it staring at me with the time boldly displayed on the lower left of the monitor screen. A mouse-click -- or two -- makes it disappear like a curtain rising on a stage, leaving my desktop visible again. Other times, I notice that this same feature displays a page of advertisements, suggested links and pictures I never asked for, never wanted. It, too, disappears with a mouse click.
I want to get rid of this behavior. I've poked around a bit in EDGE to try and find out where it might be configured, but -- no cigar. Maybe it's some feature of Cortana. But I just don't know where to go to turn the f***ing thing off.
There was a time decades ago when I could do things in MSDOS that amazed even me. When Windows first came along -- 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98 . . . . through Win 7 -- I felt like I had control of with the OS was doing. Now, Windows 10 seems to behave like my US Mail, filled with local commercial business solicitations and advertisements, real-estate promotions wanting to buy my house, and all that garbage that takes time to sort out and throw away in the trash can before returning to my house.
Does anybody know what I'm talking about, and does anyone have any insight about how to get rid of it?
Thank you.