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How to turn off some of windows 11's worst time-wasters - robkelk - 07-22-2025
If you're forced to use Windows 11, here's how to steal some of your time back
tl;dr: "Every Windows time suck has the same basic solution: turn it off. The only question is how to disable each annoyance so that it doesn't come back." The article gives instructions on how to turn off the widget board, Windows Spotlight, search highlights, Bing search results in the local search box (needs admin rights), the "Let's finish setting up your PC" screen, the hiding of file extensions, the Narrator keyboard shortcut, and non-necessary notifications.
RE: How to turn off some of windows 11's worst time-wasters - Labster - 07-22-2025
I had a better idea and just installed Kubuntu on my laptop. The drivers are not amazing, but at least my computer is not going to send screenshots of my computer to the cloud every three seconds (yes this is a real thing Windows 11 is doing). Thankfully Steam games work pretty great via Proton.