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Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users (www.techspot.com)
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[–] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Off topic, why does clicking keep windows 10 trigger the admin pop up? What does it need permission to do? It ain't for removing the ad because I still get it most boots

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because it wants administrative privileges to reverse the changes it already made to your PC

[–] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh.. well I've been constantly hitting no after it asked once and nothing changed. I initially thought it would disable the windows 11 prompt entirely