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Ads and nagging in the OS
You bought the machine and it still advertises.
Suggestions in the start menu, prompts to finish setting up an account you finished setting up, a full-screen offer after an update, a browser that asks again every time. Each one is a setting somewhere, and each update turns some of them back on.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on Microsoft Sucks
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Account lockout2026-08-07
Locked out of the account your computer signs in with
When the login for your email is also the login for your laptop, your Office licence and your encrypted drive, one account decision reaches into the machine sitting in front of you. Here is what to do — and what to set up now so it cannot.
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