Disable Suggested Apps Windows 10 Start Menu
There are a couple of ways to turn off or manage these suggested apps. If you see one, right-click on it and select an option from the context menu.
If you don’t want to see the app being displayed, select Don’t show this suggestion.To completely turn off the Suggested apps section, select Turn off all suggestions.
The other way to get rid of Suggested apps is to head to Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off “Occasionally show suggestions in Start.”
After you get rid of the Suggested apps section, there will be some space left over, and you can rid of it by resizing the menu. Move the pointer to the top of the Start menu and move it down a bit and close the gap.
Obtrusive Ad Policy?
Personally, I don’t consider these to be “ads” per se. Yes, it does allow app developers to showcase their apps in the Store, but they aren’t paid ads. I believe this is a good way to learn about an app that I might not have known about before. What I would be more upset with is if they were ads for Viagra or something that isn’t related to Windows 10 or Microsoft at all. But something that annoying doesn’t look like it will be happening. According to a Microsoft spokesman about the issue: I can also see the other side where users don’t want Microsoft pushing app ads on their Start menu, and the feature is turned on by default. If you fall into that camp, the good news is you can turn them off. What’s your take on the Suggested app section in the Start menu in Windows 10? Do you consider them obtrusive ads, and will you turn them off? Leave a comment below and tell us. Codenamed: Threshold 2 which we have been covering. https://www.groovypost.com/news/windows-10-preview-build-10565-available/ And that update is said to be coming at some point next month. Leave it to Microsoft to get the most basic of light switches .. or binary.. wrong. Basic Light Switch, like binary .. is either 1 or 0 .. on or off .. yet somehow even microsoft fails at the basics. Its like long ago, when living in an apartment complex, they had storage in the basement. And to allow people to see the had a rotating light switch timer, so that the person walks in the door, rotates the knob to 10 mins and it ticks away until back to 0. That’s what microsoft is like on many things it seems. Thanks and best regards, If that’s not paid advertising…… Really disappointed with all the crap I feel compelled to turn off in Windows 10. New Microsoft apps are one thing. Junk games are spam. I wouldn’t mind it if Windows were free – in fact I would expect it in that case. This is just a case of MS not having enough billions. However, I disagree with you that they are anything but ads; and we should be demanding this be removed completely. My desktop is a platform to get work done. The core user interface is NOT the place to display ads. The ad in my startmenu that brought me to your site to get rid of it, was an ad for the facebook app. Thus, an ad for an app for by a company that does nothing except sell ads. If facebook wants to showcase that it has an app, it can bloody well do it to its own users on its own website. There is no reason facebook needs micorsoft pushing it on my start menu. If I want to discover apps I’ll use the web, or the app store. There is simply no good reason to push them into the core user interface of windows itself. Its offensive. 2) Removing / disabling Suggested Apps from Start menu: GPO Cloud experience doesnt seem to work, I am still getting facebook on my Start menu. Any Idea on how to get rid of those two things: Environment: Windows 10 Enterprise (build 10586.164) 1511 Joined to domain I have also used a customized Start menu layout, that means I have set up my own tiles and taskbar. So far, I havent seen any “suggested” apps on my start menu, maybe because winows store is disabled. Hope that helps. Eden Not everybody objects to being given unsolicited advice, but, that’s just another way of saying that not everybody objects to intrusions. No one is under any obligation to find every intrusion intrusive, the world is wide enough for many kinds of people; but, it seems quite obvious that many people will find intrusions intrusive, because of what they are. So it does seem strange to me, to even ask whether ads are intrusive. Comment Name * Email *
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