That is the widgets not the start menu

how does granny have Wave Browser and One UI launch searchbar? Oh, she clicked on an article in the start menu, went to a site with a ton of ads, clicked yes on the "would you like notifications from this page" dialogue box, got an Edge delivery notification from a connected site of the site host saying "Your web experience may be slow, get this add on to make it better!" Goes to the Edge/Chrome add on page, adds a malicious extension that downloads the kit to install the programs, and then they bypass UAC to edit registry to persist even if they are uninstalled. And Windows Defender doesn't consider them malicious... Good job Windows.

windows 7 will always be missed

I really hate windows with burning passion, even tho I daily drive it. The audacity, the disrespect they have for their users is unmatched

That widget is like ADHD on a stick. Instant distraction from whatever the hell it was you logged on to do

Microsoft really are promoting reasons to switch to Linux. Subscribed

This ad crap needs to end. If users pay for MS 365 or have paid for a license (most don't though they claim) then this ad crap needs to go

Market share for Win10 went up, market share of Win11 went down, ha-ha!

The edge start page is bad enough, but MS putting that into the UI is bordering on criminal.

this only show why all ppl are moving back to win10, over 70% ppl are still on that old win rather than upgrading to win11, i tried it and win11 overall is awfull respect win10

"I switched to Linux" comments when someone says windows is bad: 📈📈📈📈📈📈

This problem can happen to anyone that uses the MSN website, regardless of the version of Windows. The site aggregates news articles from various reputable sources, but displays a large amount of adverts disguised to look like news. My 85 year old mum clicked on one of those, and got a fake AV message that went full screen, scaring her to death. Fortunately, through remote access, I fixed that pretty quickly. Then I changed her DNS to Quad9, hopefully to block other malicious stuff - she wont stop using MSN.

Linux is looking like a more attractive option every day.

1:00 this email is from India💀💀💀☠️☠️☠️.

Yep, disabled widgets first thing, if I want to see something I can find it myself (also disabled all suggestions from start menu)

This should not be present or installed in production environment, It's distracting to employees who work with their workstation. and now that microsoft announce the EoL of windows 10 on 2025. WTF Microsoft!

Lucky enough for me, the Widgets function of Windows 11 was disabled when I upgraded from Windows 11 Home to Windows 11 Pro (weird.) I never used it anyway. Plus, I use RetroBar for my taskbar and Start11 for my start menu. It's insane the idiocy Microsoft is pushing

Don't need to, I still use Windows 7 ;)

just one remark: if/when the PC becomes slow - 9 out if 10 it is indeed software problem, not hardware. Either bloatware or updated programms with higher system requirements. Rolling back to original software or just removing all the bloat easily makes the pc perform as when it was new.

First thing I install on windows 11 is windows tweaker and disable all add and online features of windows except mail. There are better alternatives for everything.

I can't help but wonder how well controlled the connection to the ad server is. Is this something an attacker will be able to Man in the Middle on a public wifi network and serve their own malicious ads?

When Win11 first hit here in Australia it checked my desktop and laptop for compatibility. The desktop failed, even though it was only a year or two old, Ryzen 7 chip, 16Gb ram. But Win11 said there was something in there that disqualified it. The Dell XPS13 laptop was OK. But I wasn't going to have two different systems so I'm still on Win10. Win11 still wants to me update and gives me reminders every few months. But the more I hear about Win11 the less inclined I am to go for it.

Linix Mint says hello

Can you do a video about windows 7?

Remember when the on by default taskbar news app was causing a CPU spike and crashing windows? All the current devs are just so bad. The only thing Ms does is add duplicate unremovable gigantic buttons that take an an entire row and have like save, print, send to outlook buttons. It's like they thought IE toolbars were the peak of technology

What hosts file do you suggest for everyday use? Last time I installed one, I had latency issues in online gaming

I love how the start menu is just straight up not a start menu anymore. Last time we saw a real start menu was on Windows 7

I didn't quite get in the controld website about its price, is it free for personal use? I don't want to create an account to discover it, and it only shows pricings for organizations.

What is the difference between Control D and Portmaster? Is Portmaster good enough?

When I click on MSN news articles from the start menu, is there a way to have those articles open in a different browser other than MSN or Edge?

I ripped out the start menu so much it doesn't even function as a search. It was so slow, that me pushing the windows key then typing brave, wouldn't register the *B* and then it would start searching *rave* which means I want the baltimore *rave* -ns right? Not the application I use, every day, in the same way. Having me, delay my typing, so the function could catch up to my typing, is such a fucking laughable situation when computers have surpassed windows 7 super computers and yet have a worse performance on every level. Bro LOOK AT THIS 0:01 When do you need to ever know anything shown on this screen without searching?

Can you make a video testing antitrack apps like Norton or others, please? There seems to be no reviews on KZfaq about these apps. Are they a scam?

whoa thank you for the info. And I'm a rare viewer of your videos. But I realize that I have a lot to catch up! Also nice sponsor :)

How is that you still have the old Email app from microsoft? I have the one updated from outlook and its a disgrace

I have witnessed on multiple occasions a user clicking on a link on the edge start screen, and it immediately go into one of those pop-up sides that says you've been infected to call the number on the screen.

Afrer installed the Windows 11, I just hide it the Windows Widget on the taskbar. Thank you for the news and tips, Leo!

I don't like that most sites and whatnot that offer "curated" info are little more than ad streams and I don't like that that includes email inboxes.

Worse is random software being promoted in answers on the Microsoft support forum. A user has a Windows issue and answers are given with links to little known or unknown software links.

Me: Laptop win 11 Also Me: disables all craps

I don’t know how, but I feel like this is Windows 8 all over again.

The only feature I like about the news and interest option is that I can see the weather in the task bar

Hey thanks for the information @The PC Security Channel Can you make a video about security features like in the google chrome enlargements?

Another reason I switched to Linux.

Yeah I switched it off in mine a week ago along with the widgets (not sure if they are the same thing). I've been using Win11 for around a month now, lol. Not due to malware but because of the shitty sites it spammed, like "10 ways to do X" with those fecking slideshows with ads every 2 slides or so.

Windows 11 wanting 4 Gigs of RAM is the ultimate sus that Windows users blindly accepts LMAO

already had it off , thank tpsc

You can disable ads and news from the settings in widgets, the option has been added since 23h2

windows having a popup to show weather and other information before login on boot up is also very worrying. Not only is a live session having adware under guise of boosting productivity but its being brought to other parts of the os very scary to what could happen if there are any vulns chained before even user input could log in with password.

Time to change the CEO of Microsoft and Google

Can i ask which web browser are you using as your main one? ^_^

Security Vector is increased day by day, what to include and what not is become challenging, the zero day should also be treated as extreme and treated accordingly, what if malware could use ai and do Hazardous things before user could notice or even knows it.

I don't think the sponsor link has anything in his link to tell them that someone came from you

I just removed literally all packages of widgets and copilot from windows 11

bro pls make a video about android emulators like bluestacks, nox player, ldplayer, hyperV... are they safe or viruses

May I ask if factory resetting a laptop locally and not by cloud would remove a malware, worms and Trojans?

is it outlook getting ads pretty soon too?

If you disable widgets with the task bar the process is still running so I found a script that completely removes it. Might have to do the same with Edge browser because that is always running in the background too.

OMG! 4:30 minutes into the video before you showed how to disable? You made the point in the first 20 seconds!

Never been much of a W11 critic, but the news panel pisses me off. We had a perfectly fine news app. Or weather. I don't want to read that from their repost website on the browser where I'm actually doing stuff.

Does Portmaster and ControlD play nice together?

I’ve been seeing more and more articles that were written (poorly) by AI linked by that menu lately.

how to use two anti virus softwares at the same time, at most times unsupported or at least third party do comes with risks as disabled defender and aggressive attack on third party av.

Can you make a video about the AI on Windows 11 and the way how to disable those?

Hey man do you recommend any free Vpns?

"If your computer is slow, if it's not working well, that's probably because your hardware is outdated..." Or... alternatively said you are using Windows... Sometime the PC users are shocked to see their 10+ years computers working just fine with some lightweight Linux distribution. Or, pretty recent PCs, which were marketed as "cheap" and "for home" and you find out that they sell it with 8 or even 4 GB of RAM. Yes, even nowadays you can buy such laptop... and not as bargain! Sometime even above $500!

I use W10 Enterprise IoT LTSC on my gaming PC. Other than that, I hope to never touch Windows ever again. It's either Mac or Linux.

I disable everything that MS keep throwing on the taskbar. Anything other than a Start button, open programs and the small bits to the right is not belong here, I disable them all. The taskbar is fine and is finished since Win XP era, it doesn't need anymore crap added.

Can't believe no AV's detect Windows 11.

at the works computer, every time I clicked on the edge's startpage "ads" it was a scam site lol

So have to skip a 3 min YT ad, just to see your 7 min ad for some software. welcome to my block list

When did windows change their start menu?

I wonder how long windows 10 will still be a good option?..guess I will just be stuck with whatever software is compatible with win 10 going forward.

How to deactivate Microsoft Start or the Widgets Icon with a Script?

Hi, does Control ID work worldwide?

Well sad to see windows fall apart like this... People are switching to older windows 10 which is less bloated and has better support for old hardware. And I have switched to Linux with a simple window manager.

Navigation was too fast for me in the video. For me this worked: Windows key + W (widgets), gear for settings, scroll down to Show or hide feeds, then turn off My Feed.

Been using Start11 since Win8

How does ControlD compare to Portmaster?

Same thing with youtube ads or facebook ads

no windows + nextDNS as provider = no windows malware or data to microsoft about my system usage!

The Windows start menu is a festering pile of crap. Just get Start 11.

Thank You Very Much This is great!

Disabled widgets with the crap feeds. Just got the weather app pinned to taskbar.

make a video about remote access tools and how to find out if you been infected with one because they dont even show up as virurses

I am the IT spec for a unit of about 50 people, we have a file server and thats about it and lots of random client stuff. Anyway, what is the #1 and #2 thing I need to make sure I am doing in this day and age. I know I need to get my backups backup and up to date, well real backups, like a tape or hard drive in a corner or something right now it all goes to a nas

The first thing to do with a new Windows 11 computer: Insert the Windows 10 install DVD in the DVD drive, then boot from it.

Please test Intego Antivirus

5:04 Why doesn’t ControlD work with VPNs?

I have MSN blocked in everyway shape and form. With fire walls and all my browsers. I ran into this some years ago with malware.

Is controld actually the best dns or is it just because theyve sponsoted you?

My Windows 11 start menu looks nothing like yours, but then I turned all that crap off when I first logged in.

Your first clue that this was a fraud, scam and phishing attack was the gmail account.

You going to talk about Kaspersky being banned in the US?

Beyond just Windows' sketchy business as of lately, I would really love some massive legitimacy inquiry campaign on advertisers as a whole. So many shady practices, so many downgrades in user experiences, so many threats towards security and privacy, so many wasted resources, all that for a drop of ads...

The fact that Microsoft does this when there are viable alternatives to their product is hilarious. The fact that users tolerate it is mindblowing.

This one of the many reasons I switched to linux like 4-5 days ago

wdym need? sane ppl use cut down iso and noobs just wont bother

WIndows is getting worse and worse. Im happy i use linux as a daily driver and if something doesn't work on linux i just boot into win11 thanks for the information!

TL;DR Turn off Microsoft Start from the Widgets if you feel like it, but unless you click on the links nothing will happen.

Sitting here wondering why I can't find that settings panel, realized I turned widgets TF off ages ago, & also don't log into Windows with a MS account... I used to joke & say Window was the most successful & prolific computer virus ever... Now I'm less sure it's a joke