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[-] Skies5394@lemmy.ml 103 points 1 year ago

It’s basically just their Outlook web app. It offers no extra function, and breaks a LOT of old functionality.

There’s a registry key to turn off the button.

[-] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 77 points 1 year ago

There’s a registry key to turn off the button.

Of course it's a registry key.

[-] emptyother@programming.dev 50 points 1 year ago

A registry key which is probably reset every 3rd update anyway, as usual.

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Don't even need the damn button. Yesterday while playing some fullscreen game with critical network usage (CSGO) my windows 10 with edited group policies and registry keys to block updates just switched to the outlook from the old mail program and ran it in the foreground (behind the game).

Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about the user consent, the settings for updates, settings for game focus, out-of-the-way advanced user controls etc. These settings don't even need to be defaulted without consent via updates, it seems they outright don't work.

[-] nihth@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Had a similar issue where my computer (w10) would restart while I was away and update my gpu driver which would crash regularly. There's two different places in windows where you can disable this, one in general and one for specifically the device. None of them worked. Basically was forced to do the whole restart to safe mode -> destroy driver -> restart -> install driver -> restart every day. What solved it was a gpo but at that point I was so fed up I ended up switching to Linux

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Oof. If you aren't using them, you can uninstall the default included MS Store Apps with PowerShell. Could have saved you some trouble.

I was going to say I had a similar setup and didn't get that update, but I remembered I had uninstalled the mail app.

[-] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about users.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you mean CS2? I wish I could still play csgo....

[-] ky56@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I heard you still can through the beta tab?

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but you can't play because all of the official servers are offline. Only custom servers I think.

[-] ky56@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

That sucks. I barely even played the original. Only just sort of got into multiplayer gaming.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Well, it's intended for companies, so for them there's InTune policies or is GPOs. For us plebs, we just have to not press the button.

[-] Caaaaarrrrlll@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GPOs

Group policy can be modified by a laymen by launching gpedit.msc from Super+R or the start menu.

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] kite@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Not on Home edition

You can do it on home. Takes a lot of googling and monkeying around, but I did it on my father's computer years ago.

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