Windows 10 Start menu ads: How to remove them from your PC

[Jacob Siegal]

• Microsoft quietly started putting weird ads for Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word in the Start menu of Windows 10 PCs without giving users advance warning.
• These apps are actually links that open up the Microsoft Edge browser, but if you don't know that, you might think that you have been hacked.
• Thankfully, the apps are very easy to remove from your Windows 10 PC.

Windows 10, for all its flaws, is one of the more stable and usable versions of the operating system that Microsoft has ever made. Some of those flaws are far more egregious than others, though, such as the ads the company runs for its own products in the Start menu. As spotted by Born's Tech and Windows World (via gHacks), Windows 10 users have begun to see entries for Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word in the Start menu of their computers running Windows 10 version 2004, despite never having manually installed any of those programs.

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