In message <vsdoat$3v857$1@dont-email.me>, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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On Mon, 3/31/2025 5:04 AM, John Hall wrote:

Until a year or so ago Windows Notifications via the toolbar were only
used to tell me about issues with my machine that could be important.
Now I have started to get a lot of Notifications that seem to be no more
than adverts for some Microsoft product or other. Is there any way to
shut off the adverts whilst retaining those Notifications that might
be useful?

In Settings : System : Notifications are three entries that
are anti-consumer. In the sense that, a Windows Update can turn
them back on.

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https://i.postimg.cc/6qnjp5D2/W10-Notifications.gif

The Windows 11 version of that, adds a few more twists. Microsoft
has added additional "defensive" options, to increase the puzzle-like
nature of the interface and slow the user down in their mission to
rid the machine of such things.

Paul

Thanks. I confess that the existence of Settings : System :
Notifications had failed to register with me.
--
John Hall
"I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
will hardly mind anything else."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)

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