Windows 10 File Explorer now shows Microsoft OneDrive “ads” for online storage
- Thread starter froggyboy604
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I'll look up a way to remove it.
I killed onedrive off on my machine. And the ad won't show up thanks to my locked down firewall
firewall for the win.
If you read the full article at, Windows 10 File Explorer now shows Microsoft “ads” - SlashGear you can learn how to disable the ads.
There are also third-party File Explorers like Total Commander which don't contain ads. But, you may need to pay some money to unlock all the features, and more advance features. I'm guessing, more people will be switching to third-party file explorer programs instead of using Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer is not very good in my experience since it seems to crash a lot when I used it in Windows 98, Vista, 7, etc.
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The fact that you even have to turn off advertising in these places in Windows 10 (the start menu, file explorer, office? Any others I've forgotten?) is obnoxious, as if people don't get enough things advertised to them in a day. And from their OS no less... It's a disgusting practice. (Especially now that they're charging for copies Windows 10 to basically be advertised to? How about no.)
As for explorer replacements, Multi-Commander is pretty good. It's free and is decently powerful. Moreso than Windows built in one.
As for explorer replacements, Multi-Commander is pretty good. It's free and is decently powerful. Moreso than Windows built in one.