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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

That’s the worst thing about dealing with Windows machines at work: it’s not just the browser that needs an adblocker!

And I’m not going through 20 laptops to disable that (is it even possible) unless I get paid for it.

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fubo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Remember when a “pop-up blocker” was a browser plug-in because the browsers didn’t yet consider it a competitive feature?

(Well, okay, Opera and iCab did.)

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realitista@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I installed with a local account using Rufus and I have no ads. Also went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack. It’s just a good old windows box again. Really works nicely.

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- A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  I installed with a local account using Rufus
  
  I don’t really understand this, sorry.
  
  went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack.
  
  This makes sense to me because most ads/unsolicited information seems to stem from there.
  It’s funny that on Windows you have to install a third-party app to change the OS’s behavior. I doubt I’ll be allowed to do that :(
  
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  - realitista@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    rufus.ie/en/
    
    This was also on my work machine. I had to use some utilities to extract my windows key and change some stuff in the bios to disable bitlocker, so it was not a small job but it’s increased my productivity a lot.
    
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    A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I know the Rufus software.
    
    So you’re saying you installed windows from a selfmade installation medium, that you further had to massage, without internet connection? That’s not really an option on our work laptops.
    
    I actually also did this to some machines; I gave them to their respective owners right away so I don’t know if they have no ads.
    
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    adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    shouldn’t need to worry about a windows product key if 10 or 11 was previously activated on the system and no significant changes were made to its internal hardware (like motherboard or nic). activation servers retain activation state and hardware hash, and that state is restored on reinstall. just choose ‘i don’t have a key’ when prompted during install and when windows is back it will automagically reactivate itself.
    
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