[Oscarmax]

Hi,

@Joss my old Acer laptop is slowing down and showing its age, I did buy a new Acer laptop as recommended by Which from Curry’s in January it was plagued with advertising and give up the ghost after a few days.

I did purchase a new windows single use package (I have the code) which hopefully I can use on my next laptop, I would like an Apple but to be honest I only use Excel and the internet, also I belive certain brands are worse for advertising.

• This topic was modified 1 month ago by wmcforum.

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In 2005 I suffered a brain injury which has left me with mental and physical disabilities.
Unfortunately I do get confused and get things wrong, so I apologise in advance.

Suzuki Across PHEV

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[kezo]

Lesson of the day – don’t trust which 😉

You can remove/disable many adds from the lock screen and start menu and elsewhere. Rather than me making a mistake or confusing you, follow the link. (win10 isn’t much different)

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-disable-annoying-ads-on-windows-11

 

 

[joss]

Hey @0scarmax

To be honest most laptops are loaded with bloat ware. (Software bloat is a process whereby successive versions of a computer program become perceptibly slower, use more memory, disk space or processing power, or have higher hardware requirements than the previous version, while making only dubious user-perceptible improvements or suffering from feature creep)

Not only that, windows it’s self is loaded with bloat ware. Unwanted  programmes that you wll never use. Not forgetting windows tracking and spying on you.

So what can you do about this?

Well take me for instance. I use a modified windows 11 Pro install on all my compters and laptops. This means most of the bloat ware and spyware is removed from windows. I also us Pro version of win 11 because this give you access to things like Group policy (Group Policy is a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that controls the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. Group Policy provides centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications, and users’ settings in an Active Directory environment. A set of Group Policy configurations is called a Group Policy Object.) Basically it allow you as admin to say how programs work or are accessed by the user.

For now watch this video and think, Can I do this? Then get back to me, here.

• This reply was modified 1 month ago by joss. Reason: forgot link

Joss
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"Men fight for liberty & win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves" - D.H. Lawrence

[ajn]

We upgraded our laptop, a while back, it was so difficult to use, almost like it was to busy doing its own thing, like it had issues with people trying to use it, we simply didn’t use it lol..

For us proved a waste of money, Mrs aj uses a company Dell most mornings from home, even she got fed up with the new thing..

 

[kezo]

@Oscarmax Are you running win 10 or 11 and are you running in S mode?

[Oscarmax]

I am running windows 10, it states my computer does have the requirements to run 11, what is S mode

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In 2005 I suffered a brain injury which has left me with mental and physical disabilities.
Unfortunately I do get confused and get things wrong, so I apologise in advance.

Suzuki Across PHEV

[kezo]

Oscarmax wrote:

I am running windows 10, it states my computer does have the requirements to run 11, what is S mode

Windows 10 has more bloatware than 11 but, 11 still has its fare share. However you can follow the above link or video to remove them.

In short  S mode you can only install apps from Microsoft and can only use the Edge  browser.

Win 11 Pro is another option as it would be cheaper than buying a new laptop only to have the same problem.

[Burgerman333]

Just replaced my still perfectly running 9yr old Acer Aspire i5 win 8 with WIN 11 Acer a315 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz 2.42 GHz  basic mid spec less than £400

Managed by chance to notice a currys short lived glitch and bagged it for the same price as the i3 version saving £ssss

Been dabbling with comps since XP virtual drives  partitions  running 3 operatng systems on the sam comp

Lost count of friends comps that I brought back to life

Personally would not get anything running less than i5 Intel(R) Core min 8GB  Ram as this is the sweet spot for my needs ( never been a gamer )

Firstly yes my new Acer was bloated with crap and its out of the box set up took me 3hrs to unpick/delete/block/set up and make my own

Anything Edge was shut down and replaced with Brave browser allowing me to enjoy all the latest releases if you get my meaning.

Another lesson learnt is to turn off auto microsoft updates

Not to say you should not update but I simply delay and wait and see if any released updates are causing people issues

Usually MS will follow up with another update to fix

Although a constant pain make sure to rejects 99% of isited sites cookies

I use chrome as little as poss emails/Drive/G MailGreat

step by step You tube vids out there showing how to minimis MS tracking

Being wary of sites visited and using free ccleaner will only help

I turn off ( not advising you do the same) windows defender as it can slow down the best of systems

My old 9yr old Acer still runs sweet but as no longer supported by MS it was time for this OAP to upgrade lol

The free PC Decrapifier may well be a good starting point for a novice

Remember to address what is allowed to start up and run on your system

rant over lol

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