How to Disable App Suggestions and Advertising in the Start Menu

By Timothy Tibbetts

The Start Menu can often suggest apps or games from the Microsoft Store. You can spot them with the words Suggested and frankly, they don't seem to get the suggestions right, especially if you've already made some privacy tweaks yourself.

You might also want to consider How to Disable All Advertising and Sponsored Apps in Windows 10 which includes how to disable this and all known Windows 10 advertising.

This video guides you through the steps of disabling all advertising and sponsored apps in Windows 10:

Go to Start > Settings > Personalization > Start.

Uncheck Occasionally show suggestions in Start

That's it!

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