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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

www.theverge.com

@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago
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Microsoft has paused its latest pop-ups, for now.
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    1•2 years ago

    How? Please, please let me know. That sounds like a fun project, and I’ve already got a Windows VM I don’t use.

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      @theshatterstone54 It basically a registry entry that you change.

      superuser.com/questions/1016380/how-do-i-replace-the-system-shell-explorer-exe-with-another-process-in-windows#1016381

      I’ve used litestep in the past for about 10 minutes.

      litestep.net/

      But there are others:

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_shells_for_Windows

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        Okay, I was hoping this could pave the way to more tiling window managers on Windows, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

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