Did you configure your windows 10 lockscreen to include the spotlight feature or other items?
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Not that I'm aware of, but I'll double check.
Most likely it's an ad from one of your open Firefox tabs. Try exiting all your web browsers and see if that fixes it.
Thought of that as well, but all ads are blocked and I get this popup even with the browser closed and after a full reboot (not just suspend and reactivate), so it must happen on system level, I assume. Checked my run on startup applications and services, and they appear to be clean as well.
I've never seen ff do that for anyone.
Have u tried tiny 11. And Chris Titus debloater can kill a lot of crap with those as it removes most of the shit.
Have u considered running windows in a vm or using https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary
I haven't heard of either, let me check if I can run those with my user profile and not break anything I need to log on to our corporate network in the process.
Oh, Windows 10? I wouldn't know....
Not that I understand linux. I'm actually using an older computer. That's right.....Windows 3.1 baybee! Have you guys heard of this program called......MSPaint??? I can draw a cow!
I'm pretty impressed you got Lemmy to work in Netscape.
That doesn't sound safe. I hope you sent this message with your phone. If you did it from the old computer and happen to have valuable data please feel free to share your IP address, someone might appreciate it...
My IP address is......192.168.1.1
Ahaha we've got you now!
I have noticed a similar behavior on one of my machines recently. Usually it's a video (or recently played Spotify song) that gets 'stuck' there. Have you tried opening a new instance of Firefox, playing a video, then lock the computer (win + L) to see if it- at the very least- changes/updates to the newly opened video?
I tried and it doesn't update, even after a clean reboot with no browser open whatsoever. However I did find another entry in the Firewall that comes up right on boot, which is a service called MS.Edge.Webview2, which seems to be triggered through the Teams App. I've now completely uninstalled Teams, and after a fresh boot the ad (or "media control") seems to be gone now. Guess I'll be using Teams from my phone or via browser in the future.
Good to know, thanks for sharingn Glad to hear you've found a solution.
There's gpo and registry settings to turn that crap off. Sadly there's a ton of it.
Whats stopping you from running windows in a VM?
My employer. Who owns the laptop. And forbids me to fuck around with it...
My condolences