For those who personal a Home windows 11 laptop, you’re about to start out seeing adverts for apps that you just haven’t downloaded within the Begin menu. Fortunately, there’s a straightforward solution to disable them.
This week, Microsoft started rolling out the KB5036980 cumulative replace to Home windows 11 customers. The replace includes a assortment of adjustments and enhancements, together with “suggestions that can assist you uncover nice apps from the Microsoft Retailer underneath Really useful on the Begin menu.” Microsoft examined these “suggestions” on Home windows Insiders within the Beta Channel earlier this month, and now they’re coming for all of us.
“These apps come from a small set of curated builders,” Microsoft claims in its replace notes. “This can allow you to to find among the nice apps which might be out there.”
As famous above, you aren’t caught with the adverts, as Microsoft offers a easy methodology to disable them eternally. If you wish to take away the adverts, go to Settings > Personalization > Begin and switch off the toggle for “Present suggestions for ideas, app promotions, and extra.”
Different adjustments within the KB5036980 preview embody your most often used apps showing within the Really useful part of the Begin menu (a lot better than adverts), enhancements for Widgets icons on the taskbar, and extra dependable Widgets on the lock display.
Microsoft says that it spent the previous two weeks gathering suggestions, however it’s exhausting to think about any Home windows 11 person responding positively to extra adverts. Regardless of the case, they’re right here now, however at the least we will flip them off earlier than they begin bothering us.
