Basically, install Windows as you normally would, but when asked for Time and Currency format, select English (World) instead of your country.
Then let the installer do its thing. Eventually, you will see a window with an ice cream cone on the floor with the words “Something went wrong” and the error message “OOBEREGION.” This cryptic message means that the “out of box experience” (OOBE) didn’t launch because it didn’t know which region to launch.
Click Skip, though, and Windows will install just fine. You won’t be prompted to buy Microsoft 365, you won’t be prompted to pay for a OneDrive subscription, and your Start menu won’t be cluttered with apps.
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Pretty @#%^ing ironic posting this shortly before the W11 23H2 build releases and literally un-does everything all over again.
The only answer is refusing to use Microsoft malware full stop.
After the install. Create admin and user accounts not tied to ms. Use the user account normally, and when you need admin you enter the second account details.
Use Sophia script to clean up all the advert apps bundled with win11.
I wish I could find a script to remove the advert features from edge for when I have to office. Mozilla Firefox is your day to day browser.
Use chocolatey.org to install ur apps. When you do updates, one command can do it all.
Check start-up scripts, and ensure there is nothing that doesn’t need to be there. Teams no, zoom also no.
I grew up on Windows, but Microsoft is seriously pushing me towards Linux. Gaming is all that keeps me here. I have a Steam Deck and I love what Valve is doing for gaming on Linux, so I hope that gets better and multiplayer games become possible.
I mean a lot of multiplayers alr do
I actually managed to excise Edge from my system entirely, so pressing F1 in explorer doesn’t launch it anymore.
Dsspite some people warning that Edge was needed for some “core web functionality” it has broken nothing except the handful of places where they want to force you to launch a link in Edge. In that case nothing happens, but that’s not a big deal since I know how to use search engines to find information, which is the only purpose those features served.
It took quite a few steps but I got there. There are a few extra steps to stop it coming back in the next update but you can do it.
Check start-up scripts, and ensure there is nothing that doesn’t need to be there.
Nothing better than Autoruns for this.
I like to use Winget instead of chocolatey
Jesus Christ feels like using a treadmill!
Any reason to use chocolatey over winget?
Because you like poorly maintained hacky amateur install scripts
Such a shame that winget is no longer preinstalled in Windows 11. have to install the msix bundle first and remove msstore as source.
::gestures broadly::
I’m not OP but some applications are not available on Winget.
Im assuming this is the Sophia Script you’re referring to? https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows
Does the Sophia script allow you to pick and chose what apps to remove? Some of them are actually useful.
Yes, it does.
Isn’t it ironic how you need instructions now to install Windows with a bearable level of bloat? Kinda like installing Arch just for uninstalling/skipping instead of installing.
The sad truth is that most people don’t care about all the bloat and adware.
I do, i slipstreamed windows 11 both DISM and NTLite and guess what, unbootable! Great!
Everyone keeps telling me Linux is hard to install and use and then I find crap like this and I get confused. I don’t have to worry about any of this shit with Arch.
In fairness, I don’t have to worry about any of this with Windows.
So Arch works with every hardware imaginable without issues?
I haven’t had a single issue with anything I’ve installed Arch on in the last half decade. I use Debian on all my servers and haven’t had any issues there either. Bluetooth, wireless, display drivers with both nvidia and AMD.
I’ve created a powershell script for fresh installations that removes all the unnecessary preinstalled garbage and copies a cleaned up startmenu layout file to the appdata subfolder of my user and the default user because in a professional setting, people shouldn’t see tiktok and Disney+ and shit like that. Fuck Microsoft. In private, I’ve switched to Linux and couldn’t be happier.
Got a GitHub link fren?
No, sorry. But the line in question is just
copy-item start2.bin C:\users\default\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperiencehost_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\
Replace default with your actual username. Default is the one that gets used for new users when they log in for the first time.
You need a clean start2.bin file ofc. To get that, just manually create a start menu you like and copy the file from the above location.
The old export-startmenulayout commands from windows 10 don’t work for windows 11.
Warning: had to type the directory structure on mobile, might’ve made mistakes.
Have you tried with the newest version of powershell (whatever they’re calling it now) think you still have to go out and download it but I’m not sure.
Thanks for the direct info share!
I think it is still called PowerShell, but to differentiate the installation source, Microsoft seem to be referring to the cross-platform version you can download from GitHub or via WinGet as
PowerShell Coreand the version that ships with Windows asWindows PowerShellNot quite what I’m referencing, but yeah there are two versions of powershell in this sense, I’m just talking about the latest version (7.X), windows only comes with 5.X AFAIK, but 7 has some cool new features and what not. Wasn’t sure if the 7.x reincorporated/added whatever way it might be worded to mean “working again in”
I should’ve clarified that in the original, my b
post a link to your script somewhere
See my other comment, it’s not worth posting a script for that. The garbage removal is also just using winget remove or remove-appxpackage to get rid of OneDrive, the preinstalled Teams, Xbox stuff and so on. You’ll write that yourself in 5 minutes.
How has it been like 20 years since Slashdot was relevant, and we’re still getting the same, “LOL install Linux instead” comments?
Like, I’ve been using and loving Linux since the late '90. But damn, I’m expecting to see “Micro$oft” in these comments any moment.
Slashdot or not, Microsoft sucks. The underlying truth of the “meme” will keep it alive forever.
Reminds me of the PC Master Race people that comment on Console related posts. Like, cool we get that you’re insecure about your platform of choice, we don’t need to be reminded.
Lmao I’m surprised I don’t see Micro$oft anymore, was literally just thinking about that the other day for some reason.
I still chuck an “M$” into conversations sometimes. Everyone still knows what it means.
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Look for Tiny10 and Tiny11 versions.
Do not recommend Tiny10/11. They are modified Windows ISOs and we have no way of knowing what actually was modified and if there’s anything malicious under the hood.
Besides it also completely breaks a bunch of actually useful features.
The developer behind tiny10/11 publishing scripts on his GitHub that you can use to make your own tiny windows install.
What’s that?
A barebones stripped down version of windows. Basically the smallest install possible to run windows. I use it on my Mac to virtualize windows.
If you really need to use Windows for some reason–for instance, my job requires me to use software that isn’t available for Linux (or, for that matter, Mac)–what you want to look for is a long-term service channel release of Windows. They’re difficult for end users to find, but It’s more or less just the OS, and not much of anything else. Updates are security only, not features. You’ll typically need a Windows license, and then will have to buy an additional Win LTSC license on top of your existing license.
If you really need to use Windows
What if I want to use Windows for many reasons? I mean in cases where Linux could work, but it is a personal preference?
I get you’re trying to help with your suggestion, but the way you started that comment isn’t needed at all - it stinks of elitism.
You could have just said:
Another way to get Windows without all the bloat is to install it using a Windows long-term service channel release.
This falls a little flat to me. I’ve been using desktops since the IBM 8086 clones of the 80s; I don’t recall ever seeing anyone that was passionate about Windows (or MS-DOS before that). Perhaps there were, but I don’t remember them. Microsoft products were just kind of the default after a little while; people used them because it was convenient. Plenty of people are deeply passionate about Macintosh, or whichever Linux distribution they like, but I just don’t see that in Windows. Most people seem to use it because that’s what they have to use in order to play games, or run work applications.
But hey man, if Windows is really your jam, but you don’t like the bloat, then you go right ahead! You are more than welcome to like what you like, and it’s really not my place to tell you that you’re wrong. I use Windows 99% of the time because I’ve got, uh, fuck, 35 years (?!?) of experience using Microsoft products, and the documentation for Tails is really, really spotty. (OMG, I just realized that I went to college the first time using DOS 6.22; I didn’t even have Windows 3.1.)
You can have a preference without being passionate or evangelical about the thing you prefer.
I feel an operating system is a really weird thing to be passionate about anyway. And judging others for their personal preference in OS says more about the person doing the judging if you ask me…
I find merit in each of the major operating systems I use: Windows 11, Mac OS 13, Ubuntu, Debian, Manjaro, Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS, and Alpine Linux - and those are just the ones I run currently. In the past I used OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, HPUX, Slackware, SUSE, Fedora, Redhat, Windows 3.11/95/98Se/2000/XP/7/10, and Mac OS 9 through 12 (with the exception of Cheetah and Mavericks).
But to act like you’re better than someone else, and make it clear you think less of them, because of your choice in operating system is telling. As mentioned else where ITT it’s like the console vs PC master race crap you get in gaming communities - it says more about the insecurity of the person trying to elevate themselves than anything else.
someone please
photoshKrita this onto an angle grinder.So i tried this one and for some reason i cant find candy crush in my start menu. What did i do wrong?
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature 😎
How do I install my Game Pass games?
Rufus can bypass all that crap and you get to install on unsupported hardware as well.
The stuff Rufus doesn’t block is the everything horrific. It’s great at removing/side-stepping the annoying and does nothing to remove the excrement.
I do like rufus though.
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It will be fixed pretty quickly
You’re better off removing everything from power shell since you’ll be in there to install apps anyway
The cleanest windows 11 install topped off with formatting the drive and installing Linux.
Really cleanse yourself by booting into Linux
Can’t play the game I want on Linux.
Some may have that problem. Check https://protondb.com to be real sure of it though. Pretty much every game I’ve wanted to play has been compatible on Linux. If you really can’t even with WINE then you could boot windows from a separate drive.
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“He only beats me when I deserve it”
An illiterate man has no use for books
The admin was so offended he deleted my comment
An illiterate man has no use for books
Yeah sure Mr vegan of the electronic world, just don’t make me an essay about why should I install linux (insert the most shittiest distro).
I choose antartica as region, and appers to be the same
I think you mean “how to polish a turd”
I love this description of trying to make windows bearable!
Because Windows will never be bearable in my book.
Mythbusters managed to do that pretty well
Lol
Microsoft is a “New Oil” drilling company. Expect the Enron like approach
