Why you NEED to turn off Microsoft Start in Windows 11

[AshnSilvercorp]

how does granny have Wave Browser and One UI launch searchbar? Oh, she clicked on an article in the start menu, went to a site with a ton of ads, clicked yes on the "would you like notifications from this page" dialogue box, got an Edge delivery notification from a connected site of the site host saying "Your web experience may be slow, get this add on to make it better!" Goes to the Edge/Chrome add on page, adds a malicious extension that downloads the kit to install the programs, and then they bypass UAC to edit registry to persist even if they are uninstalled. And Windows Defender doesn't consider them malicious... Good job Windows.

[arshkhanlm]

"I switched to Linux" comments when someone says windows is bad: 📈📈📈📈📈📈

[dend]

That widget is like ADHD on a stick. Instant distraction from whatever the hell it was you logged on to do

[rakly]

Market share for Win10 went up, market share of Win11 went down, ha-ha!

[Nigel_B]

This problem can happen to anyone that uses the MSN website, regardless of the version of Windows. The site aggregates news articles from various reputable sources, but displays a large amount of adverts disguised to look like news. My 85 year old mum clicked on one of those, and got a fake AV message that went full screen, scaring her to death. Fortunately, through remote access, I fixed that pretty quickly. Then I changed her DNS to Quad9, hopefully to block other malicious stuff - she wont stop using MSN.

[bruend]

this only show why all ppl are moving back to win10, over 70% ppl are still on that old win rather than upgrading to win11, i tried it and win11 overall is awfull respect win10

[shurmurray]

just one remark: if/when the PC becomes slow - 9 out if 10 it is indeed software problem, not hardware. Either bloatware or updated programms with higher system requirements. Rolling back to original software or just removing all the bloat easily makes the pc perform as when it was new.

[Finnisher_DAD]

Yep, disabled widgets first thing, if I want to see something I can find it myself (also disabled all suggestions from start menu)

[StaceyAyodele]

Lucky enough for me, the Widgets function of Windows 11 was disabled when I upgraded from Windows 11 Home to Windows 11 Pro (weird.) I never used it anyway. Plus, I use RetroBar for my taskbar and Start11 for my start menu.

It's insane the idiocy Microsoft is pushing

[Kim_Miller]

When Win11 first hit here in Australia it checked my desktop and laptop for compatibility. The desktop failed, even though it was only a year or two old, Ryzen 7 chip, 16Gb ram. But Win11 said there was something in there that disqualified it. The Dell XPS13 laptop was OK. But I wasn't going to have two different systems so I'm still on Win10. Win11 still wants to me update and gives me reminders every few months. But the more I hear about Win11 the less inclined I am to go for it.

[serversCnc]

This should not be present or installed in production environment, It's distracting to employees who work with their workstation. and now that microsoft announce the EoL of windows 10 on 2025. WTF Microsoft!

[Plazmal]

Linux is looking like a more attractive option every day.

[jirib.]

"If your computer is slow, if it's not working well, that's probably because your hardware is outdated..."
Or... alternatively said you are using Windows... Sometime the PC users are shocked to see their 10+ years computers working just fine with some lightweight Linux distribution. Or, pretty recent PCs, which were marketed as "cheap" and "for home" and you find out that they sell it with 8 or even 4 GB of RAM. Yes, even nowadays you can buy such laptop... and not as bargain! Sometime even above $500!

[IamLookingforWoody_________]

1:00 this email is from India💀💀💀☠️☠️☠️.

[Pewafamath]

I ripped out the start menu so much it doesn't even function as a search. It was so slow, that me pushing the windows key then typing brave, wouldn't register the *B* and then it would start searching *rave* which means I want the baltimore *rave* -ns right? Not the application I use, every day, in the same way. Having me, delay my typing, so the function could catch up to my typing, is such a fucking laughable situation when computers have surpassed windows 7 super computers and yet have a worse performance on every level. Bro LOOK AT THIS 0:01 When do you need to ever know anything shown on this screen without searching?

[wisteela]

Microsoft really are promoting reasons to switch to Linux.

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[sharpshooter-otew]

windows having a popup to show weather and other information before login on boot up is also very worrying. Not only is a live session having adware under guise of boosting productivity but its being brought to other parts of the os very scary to what could happen if there are any vulns chained before even user input could log in with password.

[adhithyamuthumani]

I just removed literally all packages of widgets and copilot from windows 11

[rmt]

I am surprised no one has commented that it's NOT the start menu. It's the widget menu. I always disable it and I change the start menu immediately as well. Both suck.

[Alberos]

I disable everything that MS keep throwing on the taskbar. Anything other than a Start button, open programs and the small bits to the right is not belong here, I disable them all. The taskbar is fine and is finished since Win XP era, it doesn't need anymore crap added.