Bad Windows, bad!

Collection of fixes for things I find annoying about Windows 11

Start menu microsoft account nagging

To disable this, in group policy editor (gpedit), navigate to:

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Account Notifications

then enable the setting:

Turn off account notifications in start

Start menu web search

To disable this, in group policy editor (gpedit), navigate to:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

then enable the settings:

Do not allow web search

and:

Don't search the web or display web results in Search

Context menu - show more options

To get the old flat context menu, run this registry file:

./files/classic_context_menu.reg

Recall AI (future)

This is the AI enhanced automated big brother constantly looking over your shoulder. To disable this, in group policy editor (gpedit), navigate to:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows AI

then enable the setting:

Turn off saving snapshots for Windows