Remove Ads and improve user experience

Problem

Want to improve user experience by removing suggested content and other adds and tweak some core windows UI features.

Solution

You will need to change the following registry keys:

To hide tips on lock screen navigate to:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager

There change or create a REG_DWORD value named SubscribedContent-338387Enabled and set it to 0.

To hide suggestions in Start Menu navigate to:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager

There change or create a REG_DWORD value named SubscribedContent-338388Enabled and set it to 0.

To hide the search box in the taskbar, navigate to:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search

There change or create a REG_DWORD value named SearchboxTaskbarMode and set it to:

• `0` to disable it
• `1` to show the mangnifying glass icon only

To disable combining task bar items, navigate to:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

There, create or change a REG_DWORD value named TaskbarGlomLevel to:

• `1` only combine when taskbar is full
• `2` never combine

Helper Script

Automates the above using my preffered defaults: