i want to remove the ad sidebar in windows outlook email

Hi Michelle,

We understand how you feel about the advertisements posted on your mailbox.

There's no option in removing the ads in free Outlook.com account. You can remove it by upgrading your account to Ad-free Outlook. You can check out this article for more information about it.

You may still read your emails in full view. Here's how:

1. Go to www.outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft account
2. Go to your inbox
3. Open an email
4. Click the Full view button which is at the upper right corner of your screen beside the up and down arrows

Feel free to post back if you have other concerns.

Best regards,

Mark M.

Forum Moderator

I do NOT like the side bar with the ads!! If it is not able to be removed I will drop this email acct.  I have had this email address for many, many years but it can go.  It is useless and aggravating.

I want to read my email in full screen.

WOW!! - You Sir/Madam are a STAR!!! 

I was about to quit using this useless new Outlook....but this WebMail Ad Blocker works a treat!

Thanks :)

Thank you.

This was most helpful and seems to have done the trick for me at least, but I'm still not over impressed with the whole thing and the enforced changeover, though.

Change for change's sake - it has no particular advantages over Hotmail for me.

If you happen to use either FireFox or Chrome as your Web browser, there is an add on available that gets rid of the side bar ads.  It is called WebMail Ad Blocker. I use it, and it works.  It is free.  Just search for it in FireFox's add on area, or online.

It works along with the browser, so you do not have to "re-click" anything to keep the ads from coming back. I hope this helps you.

Good Luck!