How to remove clickable links on the lock screen in Win10?

I like this new feature in Windows 10 when it randomizes the picture that is shown on the lock screen. What I can't stand are those clickable links that they put on it. These things:



Does anyone know how to remove them?

My main gripe with those links is that I often hit them by mistake when I try to unlock my PC so I then have to either click on an empty space or then close some annoying page that comes up in a web browser. It just kills productivity.

PS. I tried following these steps to use GPOs but it doesn't seem to do anything in my case. I also tried changing in the Settings so that not to allow spotlight, but then it removes this randomized wallpaper thing, which I like. I'm asking only about the links on it.

have you tried navigating to the notifications tab in settings and turning off " Show notifications on the lock screen " ?.. I've never had this on my lock screen so this might be why i don't.. not entirely sure tho.

i only use Picture as my lockscreen.. perhaps that is why i don't have this issue.

@BrandonR188: Notifications have nothing to do with this question. Those are "toast notifications". These things.

@dalchina: yes, of course I can load up a whole bunch of images and use the slideshow. This question is not about it, either. The "beauty" of that spotlight setting is that it picks images for you, which is pretty cool.

What I also noticed is that once you boot up your computer fresh it doesn't have those links and only shows them after some time. (I'm guessing because some service isn't running yet.) Only if I knew which service it is. In that case stopping it would solve the issue.

ahmd said:

What I also noticed is that once you boot up your computer fresh it doesn't have those links and only shows them after some time. (I'm guessing because some service isn't running yet.) Only if I knew which service it is...

Not sure if this helps you, but the links on the Spotlight images only seem to appear when the screen has been locked after you have logged on. If you boot up or log out you don't see them.

I think I might have solved it. It's kinda strange how it works though. All I did was this -- I set up these two GPOs in User Configuration node of gpedit.msc:



At first it didn't do anything (even after a reboot.) But a few days later I don't see those links anymore! So go figure. Might be another bug in Windows 10 (among many.)

Argh. Nevermind. Those annoying things just came back!