{"id":202236,"date":"2017-03-10T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=202236"},"modified":"2017-03-10T11:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T09:24:50","slug":"microsoft-adds-onedrive-adverts-to-windows-10-file-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/202236-microsoft-adds-onedrive-adverts-to-windows-10-file-explorer.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft adds OneDrive adverts to Windows 10 File Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is showing adverts for its OneDrive cloud storage service in Windows File Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Users have <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Windows10\/comments\/5xec80\/is_nothing_sacred_advertisement_for_onedrive_in\/?st=j03ca54q&amp;sh=c456f191\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>that\u00a0adverts for the cloud service pop up when browsing files in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>The adverts\u00a0feature the pricing of OneDrive, along with options to &#8220;Learn More&#8221; or dismiss the advert.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has previously added adverts for Windows Store applications to its OS, with ads appearing on the lock screen and Start menu.<\/p>\n<p>If users wish to disable the OneDrive adverts in File Explorer, they can open\u00a0File Explorer and navigate to View &gt; Options &gt; Change folder and search options.<\/p>\n<p>Under the View tab in Advanced Settings, there is an option called\u00a0\u201cShow sync provider notifications\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Disabling this option will remove OneDrive adverts &#8211; and notifications &#8211; from appearing in File Explorer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OneDrive-Windows-10-Advert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-202238\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OneDrive-Windows-10-Advert-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"OneDrive Windows 10 Advert\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OneDrive-Windows-10-Advert-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OneDrive-Windows-10-Advert-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OneDrive-Windows-10-Advert-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OneDrive-Windows-10-Advert-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OneDrive-Windows-10-Advert.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/201490-microsoft-adds-mixed-reality-demo-to-windows-10.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft adds Mixed Reality demo to Windows 10<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is showing adverts for its OneDrive cloud storage service in Windows File Explorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,23371,26970],"class_list":["post-202236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-onedrive","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202344,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202236\/revisions\/202344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}