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    1 day ago

    Yea, that’s a Windows Home thing.

    Upgrade to pro, where that stuff doesn’t exist.

    Not to justify it, but the thinking by MS is “this OS is free, so you get ads”, like commercial TV or the rest of the nonsense on the internet.

    Also, I’ve run Windows with updates disabled since Windows XP, and have rarely run into problems. I say this as someone who’s been in IT since the early 90’s. I’ve seen 10x more problems caused by updates at work than anything else.

    At home I enable updates every 6 months, then go manually grab the updates I need, or else it’ll update things that will break my system.