{"id":4069,"date":"2016-08-23T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T08:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2024-06-18T05:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:06:16","slug":"how-to-prevent-ads-showing-on-windows-10-lock-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-prevent-ads-showing-on-windows-10-lock-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent Ads Showing on Windows 10 Lock Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/iDsyR78657bc0c0b5097e022674600.jpg\" alt=\"last-version-windows-644x250\" width=\"644\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #313131;text-align: justify\">Some people have been logging into Windows 10 only to find that Microsoft\u00a0is now pushing advertisements through the lock screen.\u00a0Is this happening to you? You aren\u2019t the only one, and there is a way to disable this nonsense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #313131;text-align: justify\">All you have to do is disable the\u00a0<strong>Windows Spotlight<\/strong>\u00a0feature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #313131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mLziK91457bc0d16461b2258000346.png\" alt=\"windows-10-lock-screen-spotlight\" width=\"640\" height=\"586\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Open the Start Menu, type in\u00a0<strong>lock<\/strong>, and select the<strong>\u00a0Lock Screen Settings<\/strong>\u00a0option. This is the quick way to navigate where you need to be instead of trudging through System Settings and dozens of mouse clicks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the Lock Screen Settings window, look for the setting labelled Background. Change it from Windows Spotlight to either Picture (static wallpaper image of your choice) or Slideshow (many wallpaper images that rotate). That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">You may also want to disable the setting labelled \u201cGet fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen\u201d in case that ends up being another avenue for advertisements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have been logging into Windows 10 only to find that Microsoft\u00a0is now pushing advertisements through the lock screen.\u00a0Is this happening to you? You aren\u2019t the only one, and there is a way to disable this nonsense. All you have to do is disable the\u00a0Windows Spotlight\u00a0feature. Open the Start Menu, type in\u00a0lock, and select [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-firewalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4888,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}