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Why would you want to do this? Other than bugginess, but that's always there with Windows 10. Is there anything new that's bad?

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Some people want to do this precisely because it's hard to do. And getting harder with every update.

What's bad is losing control of the software running on one's system, not necessarily the content of the update itself.

I think it's the addition of adverts in explorer, although from my understanding, they are completely optional [1].

[1] https://betanews.com/2017/04/10/disable-ads-windows-10-creat...

There are advertisements everywhere in Windows 10 already: the start menu, the lock screen, the notification centre. That's just another brick in the wall.

The only place I have seen them pop up so far is in the lock screen. Maybe I've seen more, but just overlooked them.

The lock screen ads only show when you use the daily Bing images. You can either set your own lock screen image, or click "I don't like this image" and keep doing that every time an ad image shows.

It depends on where you live I think. The start menu by default looks like Broadway, full of colourful ads. The notification centre shows ads for Office 365 and OneDrive sometimes.

You don't have start menu items for Get Office and Candy Crush?

Also, I believe some of the pre-installed bloatware have ads (Money, Food, Weather, and maybe others).

I haven't updated to Creators Update, but I see no advertisements in any of those places (or anywhere else, actually).

I did turn off "Get fun facts, tips, and more from Windows and Cortana on your lock screen".

There's also a ton of garbage pinned on the start menu by default (which I've also removed), but I'm not really sure it qualifies as 'advertising'.

The "Windows Spotlight" lockscreen option occasionally displays ads (they're the "more" in "fun facts, tips, and more", apparently). The start menu frequently showed suggested apps for me to download from the store, until I disabled all the live tiles. The notification area told me to use Edge every time I started up another browser (disabled those notifications too).

These are all forms of advertising couched as "helpful tips", with the goal of encouraging me to use products that I'm not already using.

Are you asking why people don't want a potentially buggy update?

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