Solved Windows 11 pro sign in screen is showing amazon delivery info. How do I stop this?

johnlgalt · Dec 3, 2023

No. Picture of the info showing on your lock screen (which is kinda hard to take a screen cap of when it is locked lol).

NM, I missed your post where disabling the spotlight fixed it.

Cheers!

antspants · Dec 3, 2023

johnlgalt said:
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As per your pre-edit

JRT10 · Dec 3, 2023

johnlgalt said:
No. Picture of the info showing on your lock screen (which is kinda hard to take a screen cap of when it is locked lol).

NM, I missed your post where disabling the spotlight fixed it.

Cheers!

Yeah it's all good now. The main problem is that I order a LOT of stuff from amazon. So I would have literally gotten that stupid notification pretty much forever.
But it's gone away now that i've slected "photo".

JRT10 · Dec 3, 2023

Thanks for pointing me in that direction. The lock screen pics that change every time you logon was annoying me anyway, so I like this better all around.

antspants · Dec 3, 2023

JRT10 said:
If you mean System > Notifications, I turned off everything in there.

I don't doubt you did, but it seems impossible that if this is turned off, you're still getting notifications from Amazon. I can't see amazon overriding Windows settings. Unless you have Phonelink setup.
Spotlight as far as I understand windows, shouldn't have anything to do with it. But whatever worked I suppose

JRT10 · Dec 3, 2023

antspants said:
I don't doubt you did, but it seems impossible that if this is turned off, you're still getting notifications from Amazon. I can't see amazon overriding Windows settings. Unless you have Phonelink setup.
Spotlight as far as I understand windows, shouldn't have anything to do with it. But whatever worked I suppose

that's not it though, it's not amazon doing this, it's microsoft monitoring my hotmail account that I use for amazon, and alerting me to new emails.
This all started when I used Edge browser for the first time for the sole purpose of logging into the hotmail account, because I had another hotmail account open in firefox and didn't want to quit the session.

dacrone · Dec 3, 2023

then use gpedit to disable lock screen:
Computer Configuration > All Settings > Do Not Display The Lock Screen > Enable
User Configuration > All Settings > Turn off all Windows Spotlight Features > Enable

i don't even have a lock screen.. just log on screen and no notification ever show when locked.

dacrone · Dec 3, 2023

JRT10 said:
that's not it though, it's not amazon doing this, it's microsoft monitoring my hotmail account that I use for amazon, and alerting me to new emails.
This all started when I used Edge browser for the first time for the sole purpose of logging into the hotmail account, because I had another hotmail account open in firefox and didn't want to quit the session.

also, you could just clear out the saved creds in edge so it cant track that in the background... i personally keep edge disabled using sordum's portable tool until i need it, then just enable it briefly (if i ever do need it)

johnlgalt · Dec 3, 2023

In Firefox, Container tabs allows you to use multiple logins for the same domain, just in separate containers, so you can do that.

antspants · Dec 3, 2023

johnlgalt said:
In Firefox, Container tabs allows you to use multiple logins for the same domain, just in separate containers, so you can do that.

JRT10 · Dec 3, 2023

dacrone said:
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then use gpedit to disable lock screen:
Computer Configuration > All Settings > Do Not Display The Lock Screen > Enable
User Configuration > All Settings > Turn off all Windows Spotlight Features > Enable

i don't even have a lock screen.. just log on screen and no notification ever show when locked.

I looked into a fix like that, but it removed the login function.

JRT10 · Dec 3, 2023

dacrone said:
also, you could just clear out the saved creds in edge so it cant track that in the background... i personally keep edge disabled using sordum's portable tool until i need it, then just enable it briefly (if i ever do need it)

can you link that application? I never use edge, so it wouldn't even effect anything day to day.

JRT10 · Dec 3, 2023

johnlgalt said:
In Firefox, Container tabs allows you to use multiple logins for the same domain, just in separate containers, so you can do that.

I did not know that. < said in my best Johnny Carson voice.

dacrone · Dec 3, 2023

JRT10 said:
can you link that application? I never use edge, so it wouldn't even effect anything day to day.

Edge Blocker v2.0

If you want to block EDGE, the default Windows 11 and 10 browser, for any reason, you can use free and portable Programm Edge Blocker.

www.sordum.org

curious.. what did it disable? i haven't noticed any differences other than no useless lock screen covering the logon screen

*side note - i also keep edge as my default browser so that clicking on url's doesnt work. i dont trust most urls.. so this way i will have to copy and paste it into a new window (from outside of my browser that is)

antspants · Dec 3, 2023

JRT10 said:
that's not it though, it's not amazon doing this, it's microsoft monitoring my hotmail account that I use for amazon, and alerting me to new emails.
This all started when I used Edge browser for the first time for the sole purpose of logging into the hotmail account, because I had another hotmail account open in firefox and didn't want to quit the session.

But it shouldn’t be happening with any notifications from anything, that is rather intrusive. I am surprised.

dacrone · Dec 3, 2023

antspants said:
But it shouldn’t be happening with any notifications from anything, that is rather intrusive. I am surprised.

Surprised that Microsh!t is intrusive?! Nooooo. I disable so much garbage in these OS’ lol

BamaInArk · Dec 3, 2023

There are some settings in Edge you can disable as well to help prevent this. Some having to do with Shopping, etc. Is your Edge logged in with your Microsoft account?

JRT10 · Dec 3, 2023

antspants said:
But it shouldn’t be happening with any notifications from anything, that is rather intrusive. I am surprised.

I am too, but it's obviously more than a coincidence that I had just used edge and that homtail account at the same moment. still, it's disappointing that I turned off so many settings for notifications, and none of them did the trick.

JRT10 · Dec 3, 2023

dacrone said:
Edge Blocker v2.0

If you want to block EDGE, the default Windows 11 and 10 browser, for any reason, you can use free and portable Programm Edge Blocker.

www.sordum.org

curious.. what did it disable? i haven't noticed any differences other than no useless lock screen covering the logon screen

*side note - i also keep edge as my default browser so that clicking on url's doesnt work. i dont trust most urls.. so this way i will have to copy and paste it into a new window (from outside of my browser that is)

no, I didn't try the one I saw, but it seemed to say that would happen.
also i'm in group policy editor, and i've selected the computer configuration, but I don't see the option for "all settings"

Edit* by the way, I think it's great that someone actually coded such an app, lol.

antspants · Dec 3, 2023

dacrone said:
Surprised that Microsh!t is intrusive?! Nooooo. I disable so much garbage in these OS’ lol

lol
But it’s a setting that is provided and I can’t find any documentation anywhere on the net (yet) that states Edge overrides the notification settings. I also don’t understand what Edge has got to do with emails other than being a carriage to log into Outlook. Also, if you can see Amazon emails on lock screen, you should see all emails. Unless the account is for Amazon only.