Ask Paul: March 5 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and welcome to March: Spring is not quite in the air yet, but it will be soon, so let’s kick off what I hope will be our last cold weekend of the season.
Settings header in Windows 10
MartinusV2 asks:

During last week Windows Weekly, you lost your Windows Settings Header. Since then, did it came back? Or are you are like many of us that never had this feature when opening Windows Settings?

It didn’t come back on my NUC, no.

Mary Jo did get the story on this feature, however: The header is the new interface, and it will be rolling out to all users. People who had the header and then lost it are experiencing a bug that will be fixed. But the header is the correct/new UI.

Related to this, JustMe asks:

Regarding the Windows settings header - is there an official word as to when or what version of Windows you should see it in, and do you know if there is a mechanism within windows (group policy?) to turn it off. There are at least a couple methods of turning it off on the web, but they are inconsistent (as in, a tool will turn it off, Windows gets updated, and it comes back on so you have to use the tool again).

My understanding is that the new header should appear in any supported Windows 10 version, but I only have 2004 and 20H2 on my PCs now. Microsoft told Mary Jo that it was “slowly rolling out” the new Settings UI that includes the header, and that the experience differs slightly between those who sign-in with a Microsoft account and those who do so with an Azure Active Directory (AAD) account.

I’m not aware of any method, policy-based or otherwise, for turning this off, sorry.
Missing Edge feature
MartinusV2 also asks:

And talking about features that are there or not. Edge on my work computer had the coupons notifications features but not on my home computer that have the same version of Edge. And today, after upgrading my work computer with the new version 89 of Edge, The coupons feature is no longer available. Why is Microsoft doing this? Why removing feature that you have added in the previous version?

The shopping features in Edge are generally available, so it’s not clear what’s happening here. Oddly, I just upgraded to Edge 89 on my desktop and I’m also not seeing coupon offers, though I can see the shopping option is toggled on in settings. I did install a Rakuten extension recently to test it, and I wonder if that is somehow overriding it? (And perhaps similar extensions like Honey.)

This is most curious.
Dialing back on social media
SeattleMike Alpha Member #105 - 17 hours ago

My wife and I have been going through what I like to call a "social media diet". Meaning we're dialing back significantly on using or consuming social media during the next couple of months. I was curious what your view of your social media usage is, how much an impact it has on you and your work, and if you've ever considered something similar (i.e. dialing back your usage/consumption)?
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