{"id":30684,"date":"2025-08-25T08:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=30684"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:11:02","slug":"lets-make-windows-11-a-little-less-annoying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/lets-make-windows-11-a-little-less-annoying\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Make Windows 11 a Little Less Annoying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s Make Windows 11 a Little Less Annoying<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The end of the Windows 10 era is fast-approaching, and many of you are or will soon be using Windows 11. Windows 11 has its annoyances – many more than we will cover here today, but this little tutorial will get you help you get started making Windows 11 just a little bit less annoying.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right-click on the Taskbar, choose “Taskbar settings”, and turn off “Task view” and “Widgets”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Next to ‘Search”, choose “Search icon only”. It has the same functionality as the full search bar but takes up less room.\u00a0 Taskbar space is valuable. Why clutter it up?<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, click on Settings > System (on the left) and turn off Notifications. Who needs all those annoying notifications popping up?<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, click on Settings > Personalization> Lock screen and uncheck “Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen.” It’s just another annoyance and another way for Microsoft to advertise.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Moving right along. Now, click on “Privacy & security” (on the left), <\/span><\/p>\n

Under “General,” turn all of the switches off.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Under Privacy & security > Diagnostics and feedback, make sure “Send optional data…” is turned off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, under Privacy & security > Search permissions, turn the switch off under “Search highlights”<\/span><\/p>\n

This is just a start, but just doing the little things above will help you make Windows 11 less annoying and less intrusive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let’s Make Windows 11 a Little Less Annoying The end of the Windows 10 era is fast-approaching, and many of you are or will soon be using Windows 11. Windows 11 has its annoyances – many more than we will cover here today, but this little tutorial will get you help you get started making Windows 11 just\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4221,4299],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30686,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30684\/revisions\/30686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}