Click Yes ;) Or don't use windows
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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idk what this is i've never encountered it, but if it's a web page u can just block it with ublock
It's not. It's a Microsoft signed executable that gets dumped in the temp directory and run. I was pretty angry when it popped up (not least because Windows had just bluescreened while trying to resume from hibernation - hibernation because modern sleep is shit). Rather then hunt down exactly how Microsoft got it onto "my" system, I just killed it and got on with my day.
It's a work laptop but I'm sorely tempted to drop NixOS on it anyway.
win11
Just switch your search to bing. Do it DrGonzo. Join us. Join us. Join ussssssssssssss.
Have you tried clicking "Don't switch"?
Yes, it continues to prompt occasionally afterwards.
They have a bunch of these things that get prompted periodically even if you said no initially (like things on install/upgrade). SOME of them only come back once. But Microsoft dynamically chooses what to push on people so that can change at any time.
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