Super dumb they don't have it by default, but there are third party projects to patch the functionality in at least
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PancakeLegend@kbin.social 10 months agoIf it follows the same pattern for all MS features, there will be a check box to turn it off, but it will be on by default. So if you don't like it, turn it off and save your outrage, like me, for the absence of a vertical taskbar in Windows 11.
neoman4426@kbin.social 10 months ago
metaStatic@kbin.social 10 months ago
turn feature off
windows needs to update
feature mysteriously turned back on
repeat ad nauseam
nicetriangle@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yeah I feel like people are being surprisingly optimistic about this
deleted@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I genuinely feel most of them are Microsoft bots.
PancakeLegend@kbin.social 10 months ago
There are some dark patterns in the setup experience that might cause that.
Turn off the "Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates..." and the "Suggest ways I can finish setting up..." options in settings.
I bet if you're having preferences change on you, it's because you're clicking ok or next without reading during these nag screens.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No. I have definitely had the “suggest ways to finish setting up” setting revert itself after quarterly Windows feature updates. There was no prompt and it never asked me. It also reverts my fast startup setting, which on my particular motherboard causes Windows to take half an hour to boot. So I tend to notice that one when it changes the setting behind my back.
I find this immensely irritating. (The “finish setting up” option is the one that causes it to nag you every ~5 startups to create a Microsoft account, if you are using a local account like a sane person.)
You can disable these in Group Policy Editor, if you are running Windows 10 Pro or any of its myriad enterprise versions, and have admin permissions. If you do that insofar as I have observed they stay disabled. If you are running Win10 home, I believe the trick still works where you can steal a copy of the Group Policy snap-in (gpedit.msc) from a Pro copy of Windows via flash drive or whatever and just plonk it in your Windows folder, and it works.