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What did you do to remove the news, ads etc.? A while ago I tried relatively hard to delete the news and I couldn’t.


https://www.webnots.com/how-to-completely-disable-ads-and-su...

that's a pretty good overview

Also do start --> "adjust the performance of windows" --> choose "adjust for best performance". You can turn on essential stuff to your liking.

If you want to go down a rabbit hole, checkout Windows 11 debloat on github and then selectively disable those services & settings .


also get the sysinternals suite on Microsoft Store and then run "autoruns" to disable all of your background / startup apps and services




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