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Turn off focused inbox6/23/2023 ![]() Whether you disable Internet Explorer or not, it’s time for Windows users to stop using it on a daily basis and instead use Chrome, Firefox or even Microsoft Edge. Since Microsoft cybersecurity expert Chris Jackson has advised anyone still using Internet Explorer to give it up and Microsoft officially discontinued it in 2015, it is a good question why it was installed on Windows 10 machines by Microsoft at all. If this sounds scary, Microsoft has supplied a somewhat complicated set of instructions on how to disable Internet Explorer on Windows 10. This follows a report last April that stated even if you don’t use Internet Explorer, a certain kind of email attachment could launch it and let hackers steal your data. If the user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker might do even more damage. “Stop using Internet Explorer immediately also, why are you still using Internet Explorer?” was the headline of a late September Mashable article that noted the day before Microsoft warned users of Internet Explorer that a critical vulnerability in the browser allowed malicious actors to hijack the computers of those running the outdated program. It is possible that I accidentally clicked the button, but then I turned it off in both versions – and it hasn’t reappeared since. First of all, you should know how to log in so you can in case of an emergency and secondly, after I turned off Focused Inbox in my desktop version, it unexpectedly reappeared months later at about the same time as an automatic update. I strongly believe you should do this in both places even if you don’t think you will use Outlook on the web.
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