Everywhere you look, ads are all around, even in Windows 10. But you don’t have to just accept it — in this guide, we show you have to remove them. - How to remove those nagging ads from Windows 10

# Windows 11 ⮺

Microsoft spent four years stuffing Windows 11 with ads, forced Copilot integrations, and bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it.

By October 2025, Microsoft had systematically hunted down and killed every single workaround for creating a local account, the oobe\bypassnro command, the BypassNRO registry toggle, the ms-cxh:localonly trick, even the old fake email method.

• I Ran Wireshark on Windows and Ubuntu. I Wasn’t Ready for This. - windows phoning home / telemetry and ads from the start.
  • Windows 504 packets / Ubuntu 66 packets - both idle, nothing open.
  • you need to block ipv4 and ipv6 traffic if you want to block telemetry.

# see also

• How to Get Windows 11 or Windows 10 for Free (or Under $20)
  • download Win11 from M$
    • bypass Ce PC ne peut pas exécuter Windows 11
    • Installer Windows 11 sans compte Microsoft

# dev

• Things you should know about Windows Input, but would rather not
• Windows dynamic linking depends on the active code page / HN - “Microsoft-ism”; in MS documentation, “ASCII” consistently means “single-byte or MBCS” and is interpreted relative to the current codepage.

# usmt.ppkg

• Deleted usmt.ppkg, nothing works anymore (Windows 10)
  • Recovery/Customizations/usmt.ppkg suddenly occupies 5.6gb or 6% on my ssd