Is Microsoft trying to take over everyone's PC again?

onomatopoeia99

peter021072 said:

DE_612183 said:

I suspect that you may be clicking "accept" to things like upgrades without reading the default - such as resetting the default search engine.

Where does the bing search bar appear?

what browser are you using? - If it's Edge, then better to move to chrome if google is your preferred route.

edit - my auto windows update settings are turned off for some reason, but they are up to date anyway see below.

If Windows update says you are up to date then updates are on and your screenshot shows nothing indicating they are off .  The "as soon as they are available" setting that is off just means you won't get feature updates when they are released but after a delay, while you will get security updates as soon as they are available.

In Windows 10 and 11 completely disabling Windows updates is non-trivial to achieve.  

Lorian

The prompt screen the OP is referring to is trying to get them to login with a Microsoft account rather than a local account. Skip for 3 days does get you past this until next time 

km1500

onomatopoeia99 said:

peter021072 said:

DE_612183 said:

I suspect that you may be clicking "accept" to things like upgrades without reading the default - such as resetting the default search engine.

Where does the bing search bar appear?

what browser are you using? - If it's Edge, then better to move to chrome if google is your preferred route.

edit - my auto windows update settings are turned off for some reason, but they are up to date anyway see below.

If Windows update says you are up to date then updates are on and your screenshot shows nothing indicating they are off .  The "as soon as they are available" setting that is off just means you won't get feature updates when they are released but after a delay, while you will get security updates as soon as they are available.

In Windows 10 and 11 completely disabling Windows updates is non-trivial to achieve.  

actually it is comparatively easy to totally disable updates on window 10 and windows 11

GDB2222

km1500 said:

onomatopoeia99 said:

peter021072 said:

DE_612183 said:

I suspect that you may be clicking "accept" to things like upgrades without reading the default - such as resetting the default search engine.

Where does the bing search bar appear?

what browser are you using? - If it's Edge, then better to move to chrome if google is your preferred route.

edit - my auto windows update settings are turned off for some reason, but they are up to date anyway see below.

If Windows update says you are up to date then updates are on and your screenshot shows nothing indicating they are off .  The "as soon as they are available" setting that is off just means you won't get feature updates when they are released but after a delay, while you will get security updates as soon as they are available.

In Windows 10 and 11 completely disabling Windows updates is non-trivial to achieve.  

actually it is comparatively easy to totally disable updates on window 10 and windows 11

I see the botnet is on a recruitment drive again.

MouldyOldDough

Remove Edge

https://www.intowindows.com/2-ways-to-uninstall-microsoft-edge-from-windows-11/

chunter

Try stopping Office from saving all your stuff to Onedrive. Including your Outlook emails.

If you're computer savy you can divert the stuff onto your own computer,
but the amount of people who have no idea their files are going to the cloud is astonishing.

I consider Onedrive to be a form of bullying.

Neil_Jones

chunter said:

Try stopping Office from saving all your stuff to Onedrive. Including your Outlook emails.

If you're computer savy you can divert the stuff onto your own computer,
but the amount of people who have no idea their files are going to the cloud is astonishing.

I consider Onedrive to be a form of bullying.

Tick the highlighted box in Office options to stop stuff being saved to Onedrive:

Or alternatively look at the screen before you click save, because even with the above option disabled you can still save locally.

As for Outlook, that depends on which flavour of Outlook you're referring to:

Outlook as in what used to be Hotmail

Outlook as in Outlook that comes with Microsoft office

Outlook for Windows that will ultimately replace the Mail app,.