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May have been a free upgrade, however, it comes with ads pushed to the system using different avenues (even if you’ve upgraded for a fee, sadly). These ads appear at various places including Start menu, Action Center, as well as on the lock screen. These ads coax you to buy that you may or may not need. Owing to the fact mentioned, many users find these ads intrusive enough to degrade the overall user experience. Fortunately, there exist some useful tricks to disable or block most of the advertisements and that’s what we’re going to discuss in this article.

Below is a list of places where ads are shown and the tricks to disable them safely. Are you ready?

Read Also: Stop getting personalized ads Microsoft displays targeted ads on Windows 10 using a unique advertising ID. It tracks the app uses and Windows Store purchases to display personalized ads, which you’re most likely to click or follow. The best way to avert such targeted advertisements is to disable your advertising identity so that the company can’t show ads based on your interests. You can perform these steps to turn off your advertising ID: • Open 'Settings', click 'Privacy' and select 'General'. • Under 'Change privacy options', toggle off the option 'Let apps use my advertising ID for experiences across apps'.

Also, please do the following steps in every installed browser in your system, including the Microsoft Edge, to get rid of personalized ads while browsing the web: • Navigate to. • Toggle off the options named 'Personalized ads in this browser' and 'Personalized ads wherever I use my Microsoft account'.

Remove ads from the Start menu Start menu is the central launcher for everything, say files, apps, settings and more, and Microsoft has found a way to monetize the same by showing suggested apps. These ads suggest applications that are not available on your PC and Microsoft tries its best to convince you to try or buy them from the Windows Store. Fortunately, one can turn off these ads or suggestions by performing these steps: • Open 'Settings', choose 'Personalization' and click on the 'Start' option.

• Toggle off 'Occasionally show suggestions in Start'. Remove ads from Cortana search Cortana is your personal digital assistant that’s always available to offer tips, suggestions and help. It encourages and coaxes you to use its various AI-based features and also gives suggestions, which is a form of advertisement in itself. If you don’t want Cortana to offer you such ads, you can disable this feature by following these steps: • Open 'Cortana', click on the 'Settings' icon and toggle off 'Turn off the Taskbar tidbits'.

Remove ads from Action Center Action Center is the notification center introduced in Windows 10 – same as Android has its notification panel for showing notifications from apps. Microsoft also utilize this space to push tips, tricks, suggestions, and advertisements. In case you’re finding such ads and suggestions obtrusive, you can remove them using these steps: • Open 'Settings', click on 'System' > and select 'Notifications & actions'. • Toggle off 'Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you use Windows'. Remove ads from the lock screen The lock screen is a security screen that helps protect your PC from unauthorized access. It asks for your password when the PC is left inactive or goes to sleep or is turned on.