TOC: 1:38 Initial Setup (you can skip this) 3:38 Check your specs to make sure you got what you ordered 4:28 Remove Bloatware 10:48 Install These Programs (if you want) 12:28 Secure Windows 11 Extra Credit! 15:38 Pick an Office Suite 16:21 Three Key Firefox Extensions 17:21 Customize the look (huge improvement)
Bro, I despise windows. Mint is great and all, but needing windows is terribly a thing. Is mac even in a good spot, compared to the invasion win10 is of that which used to be privacy, or the content ownership usurpation that is win11 we now know and love. Topical video would be sweet, a reply also would be appreciated. I know there's no easy answer.
Recommendation for getting rid of extras: Right click on the taskbar and turn off: News & Interests, Show Cortana, Show TaskView Button, Show People, Show Windows Ink Space, Search : Hidden -> Uncheck Show Search Highlights You can still press the windows key and search without having to have the search bar on the screen.
The sad fact of Windows operating system is that you have to De-bloat and turn off adware, spyware, and malware before you even use your computer should be quite concerning.
Especially the fact that a paid-for, non-free OS wants to force ads on their users... this is just beyond ridiculous. Microsoft is pushing people away as hard as they can.
it's not it's just a business ..like they pay them to be installed in thier laptop this is how you make money it's pretty simple nothing like goverment spying on you ordinary JOE : D
Man I am always so impressed with you how to set up your laptop after you get it. Please don't stop doing these videos. I learn so much from them. That keyboard at the end is pretty slick, but i just baught a very pricey keyboard from Glorious Gmmk full size custom with khail box browns switches and I just love. I will remember that keyboard might be really nice one to take with you places on trip for like laptop use. Have a good one my friend and God Bless.
Awesome video. Thank you! Very indepth and all in one place! I've been dreading setting up my new laptop arriving tomorrow. Having all this useful info in one place will make life a lot easier.
Bonus tip. For the newer Lenovo I had to be online to install windows. I haven't figured out a workaround for that yet :( 😞 However, we did figure out to create an offline user during setup. You just pick Domain user, and since you aren't joined to domain, you trick windows into creating a local user. Ty for video, btw
"I don't have Internet" is not available by default for the Windows Home edition, to bypass this: Follow the Windows 11 install process until you get to the "choose a country" screen. Press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt. Copy and paste OOBE\BYPASSNRO into command prompt, and press Enter to disable the Internet connection requirement. The computer will reboot, and take you back to the "choose a country" screen from there you can proceed with the "I don't have Internet" local account install.
And once you've finished all of that... create an image of the SSD to a hard drive. That way, you can simply restore that if it all goes tits up without having to go through the whole monotonous process again.
Followed your Windows 10 laptop setup guide from 8 years ago for 2 laptops, thanks for coming in clutch with a Windows 11 guide for my 3rd new laptop 👊
Great video and ofc always enjoying your music. For viewers; I recommend GpuZ, a tiny app that will let you have a quick view of Gpu temp and usage statistics, as well as Cpu temp. HWiNFO64, MSI Afterburner, Notepad++, CpuZ, IrfanView and Winamp (newly updated!) are a few others.
I download all the apps you listed on a new install except for Winamp. I switched to Foobar when Winamp was discontinued years ago and I can't go back, lol.
Getting ready to swap out the 2TB nVME in my Thinkpad P1 for a 4TB (huge dropbox for work) and wanted to play around with my current setup to try things out. This video was super helpful. Tried a windows debloat app (BloatyNosyapp), the checkmark on icons has annoyed me for months and never knew compact mode existed either. Explorer Patcher is the icing on the cake. Super mall task bar, legacy style taskbar without icons and Win 10 right-click (without reg edit), Win 10 start menu - now it feels like I'm running Windows 11 Pro for Workstations. Thanks!
Great video. Some updates: Windows 11 now has an EarTrumpet type functionality built-in. And HTTPS Everywhere's no longer available since Firefox comes with something similar built-in.
Dude! I didn't even know you were in a rock band until watcing this video. I retired from playing lead guitar many years ago due to illness. I hope you and your bandmates are well.
When you say things like Windows Defender is really good, it is better than everything else, I'm very curious where you got that information from? Could you possibly link some sources or say if it is based on your experience as a user in terms of how easy it is to use or whatever.
i just learnt from another video that when installing win 11 if you set it to english world it wont install all those apps like tik tok and disney etc, then you can just change it to english US after install
I work full-time for a software development company but I also own a computer repair business and I have a great collection of RUclips channels to stay informed. Just subscribed. I have been dual booting my main laptop with Windows 10 and Kali linux. Kali is awesome, i love cli.
I'm not sure if it works with a purchased pre-installed WIndows 11, but you can avoid all the bloatware by selecting "English (world)" as your language during installation. Never had bloatware since doing that. I also recommend "StartAllBack" as my favourite taskbar/start manager (it's less than the price of 1 coffee).
This is great! Just bought a refurbished T480 and it'll be my first ThinkPad since my X60 - which still works!! In spite of being dropped three feet in my rental SUV in Vegas back when it was new (2006?!) and the hard drive was spinning! A tank. Can't wait to try out my new-to-me i7 Lenovo ThinkPad T480 8650UU laptop and rest easy knowing I'm getting the initial setup right!
I can say with complete confidence that i7 will perform great for every day tasks and even some (VERY) light gaming. Shouldn't skip a beat other than graphics heavy tasks.
The last computer I did out of the box Windows 11 the option for no internet wasn't there. Had to Shift F10 and tick tack the magic commands to bypass that crap.
Thanks for the tips. However, I’m puzzled that you didn’t mention one of the most important Windows settings that must be changed - show file extensions in Windows Explorer.
The first thing I do is get the license-key from the motherboard, download a Linux-distro, put it on a USB-stick, boot from the USB-stick and remove all the partitions and make new partitions for UEFI, the Linux-distro and the home-directory and then install Linux. I used Windows XP, 7 and 10 and 11. I really can't tolerate Windows as since version 10. Version 7 broke my system more than one but when it worked I could tolerate it. Windows 10 got too bad with all the nag-messages, hiding extensions, incredibly weird sorting in the file manager (like sorting on name and still having the recently added files on top), lack of consistent dark mode (when I used W10 for the last time), the horrible update-process with countless interruptions. It even drove me nuts in the short time that I dualbooted with Windows10, anytime I started it up it was update-time first while I just wanted to play a game. Why are updates on Windows so slow? On Arch Linux a 2 GB update takes 2-3 minutes, and that is only because I have slow internet (8-9 MBps download).
One thing he missed, before turning on Bit Locker, be sure to install a printer, so that you can print and store the key. You can also sign in and out of your MS Account and back up the key there. Watch yourself here, some Laptop OEM Versions of Windows Pro automatically enable Bit Locker and I have had done initial updates, that caused the Bit Locker Screen appear after restart, this only happened once with a Dell, but if I di not have the printed Key I would have been SOOL and would have needed to download and reinstall Windows and Dell Apps and stated all over again!
What I can also recommend is to create a shortcut for the Reset in the taskbar. So you can just make a reset with one click instead going the way over the start button. Right click on the desktop, New, Shortcut, type shutdown /r /t 0 then next, you can name it Reset and finish Then right click on the icon, properties, shortcut, change icon, you can choose then the shutdown icon
Great video, thanks for making this. New to Windows 11 myself and this was very helpful. I do got to admit, I like some of the changes since I have the Surface Pro 9, and a lot of the changes are great for when I am using it as a tablet. But your vide was such a great help to get my machine dialed in for my perfect experience. Looks and works like a desktop/laptop when I have the keyboard attached, and great tablet experience when I use it in that mode. Perfect tips and tricks here. Followed you, excellent content!
I am away from my laptop at this moment. But i have just purchased extra storage and upgraded ram and ssd for it. Now, I can't wait to install my new ugrades and start fresh from scratch, using the information you provide in this great video. Thank you for helping those of us who are less knowledgeable about this stuff. Best video I've found yet. Thanks again.
Thank you for taking the time out of your day to break this down for folks who know a little about tech but not much about the importance of security in our systems. Much appreciated!
This video is underrated. It deserves millions of views! Microsoft is shoving so much garbage with Windows 11 and soon 12. Thanks a lot for your honest advice!
Speaking of anti virus. I tried different ones with my old laptop because it was just good enough to run most games at playable fps so every single frame mattered. Windows defender is really good for that. But actually Kaspersky lite (the free one) gave me an extra fps boost even over defender. But it has to be the free one, the full one is comparable to defender when it comes to its effect on the fps
As already mentioned “no one makes videos like this anymore.” And I “totally agree.” Clear concise speedy, very informative and intuitive. You have a new subscriber today. Absolutely amazing video love the topic. I love it when two minds think a like. Absolutely 👍👍 and of course ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Thanks so much my friend for all you do !!!
Interesting though one thing I normally do from a security standpoint is that I'll normally set up a local account with limited access rather than use a supervisor level account. If I need supervisor level, I'll temporarily go to supervisor level until I no longer need it. I'll normally set the supervisor up as a separate account rather than use the built-in account and I won't use the built-in guest account either. That's usually one of the last things I'll do when setting up Windows.
what is life? life is installing and uninstalling and updating and restarting and coffee-drinking and jittering and fidgeting and finally flatlining... .. . ______
Serendipity! My laptop was just delivered (upgrade from Windows 7). Thanks so much for all this info. I can venture forth with confidence and unbox this thing. And *maybe* retire my trusty 10 year-old PC.
Awesome demo. I thought I was savvy setting up new Machines but got into the habit of “same as before and before that and before that” this is a whole new way
I just recently got a laptop that came with Win 11. And during the setup on mine, there was sadly no window with the option to sign up without being connected to the internet. When trying to, it kept giving me messages like "oops, it seems you are not connected to the internet. Let's go back to the previous step/get you connected." And I had watched several videos on how to set up without a connection and without signing in to the Microsoft account. I did not manage to set up without signing into a Microsoft account either. When I tried it just kept telling me to get a Microsoft account and sign in. And I could not find a way to advance beyond those pages without doing it. It did not display any option to "skip". There might be new workabouts for this. But what is in the videos I have seen even a few months old ones, does not seem to work anymore. At least it didn't work with mine.
I found a way around getting around the being forced to sign into a Microsoft account. Where it requested my user name and password, I typed random keys for both user name and password and when I pressed sign in it just said that it doesn't work and then proceeded to register me as a local user.
Looking around online to see how much space I should allocate for a restore point, i found this... (mainly surprised about the deletion of restore points!) From windows support: "A space of approx. 10Gb will be enough for System Restore, because that will be enough for a few restore points and Windows updates automatically deletes restore points when a large Windows update is installed, so that space will be sufficient."
You cannot click on "I don't have a internet connection" with the home version of windows. You must have the pro version. Bit locker is also a pro only feature.
If you don't have the internet or you do not want to boot up your new laptop to create a Microsoft online account when booting up Win 11 for the first time just wait for that part of the process to come up & if you do not see the option to bypass the setting up of a network to continue the first time set up just press (Shift & F10) together to get the command prompt window then type this command (oobe\bypassnro) That will restart the computer & skip the setting up of the network adapter to connect online part & also that annoying part of the first time Win11 install process that normally stops a lot of new users from bypassing that part of the install to be able to finish the process to get to the desktop.
You really do have to go insanely far out of your way to stop Windows 11's tracking behavior but it can be done. Windows and google etc. all love to use footprint style dns requests and windows alone has consistent issues leaking DNS requests and information across programs and network adapters. Windows throws out all kinds of dns requests to various services if you so much as open the start menu. Whether this matters is dependent on you but be sure to take that into account if you're gonna use a VPN like PIA. Many times PIA software can falter when using split tunnel modes and cause your computer to use your normal IP addresses despite having programs set to use only the VPN. Pi-Hole, VPNs, VMs, Docker, and WindowsSpyBlocker are all great ways to combat this but it requires what I would consider an overbearing amount of self discipline to maintain for most people.
Wonderful video. One thing I would definitely have recommended is for users to consider tweaking their power settings whether it’s a laptop or desktop. You don’t always have to edit the settings but it’s always worth going through & perhaps creating a custom profile to run most of the time.
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TOC:
1:38 Initial Setup (you can skip this)
3:38 Check your specs to make sure you got what you ordered
4:28 Remove Bloatware
10:48 Install These Programs (if you want)
12:28 Secure Windows 11
Extra Credit!
15:38 Pick an Office Suite
16:21 Three Key Firefox Extensions
17:21 Customize the look (huge improvement)
Bro, I despise windows. Mint is great and all, but needing windows is terribly a thing. Is mac even in a good spot, compared to the invasion win10 is of that which used to be privacy, or the content ownership usurpation that is win11 we now know and love. Topical video would be sweet, a reply also would be appreciated. I know there's no easy answer.
Ts25 for vpn?
26:00 install power toys
Can you do the 2024 version of this please?
Does all this information still apply or has any of it changed if so personally I would LOVE an updated version of this
Recommendation for getting rid of extras:
Right click on the taskbar and turn off:
News & Interests, Show Cortana, Show TaskView Button, Show People, Show Windows Ink Space, Search : Hidden -> Uncheck Show Search Highlights
You can still press the windows key and search without having to have the search bar on the screen.
I don't see any options to get rid of News and Interests. I wonder if they disabled the option to disable lol
I tried to turn those off as well. No luck.@@furnitureandbedding776
Gonna be saving this for my windows 11 setup video. Remembering all this is impossible but that’s what windows has turned into.
I had one of these saved from 6 years back, glad you've done an update.
yeah, i concur. i really appreciate you for putting this together in the spirit of helping others. im set
It's always great to see this kind of video - very useful! It was actually the Win10 version which had me subscribe years ago.
The sad fact of Windows operating system is that you have to De-bloat and turn off adware, spyware, and malware before you even use your computer should be quite concerning.
Especially the fact that a paid-for, non-free OS wants to force ads on their users... this is just beyond ridiculous. Microsoft is pushing people away as hard as they can.
it's not it's just a business ..like they pay them to be installed in thier laptop this is how you make money it's pretty simple nothing like goverment spying on you ordinary JOE : D
Yeah that's why i prefer linux every day.😂
But to control the people chat they have no issue
I'm not worried. I spent a lot of money, I can spend a few hours setting everything up.
Man I am always so impressed with you how to set up your laptop after you get it. Please don't stop doing these videos. I learn so much from them. That keyboard at the end is pretty slick, but i just baught a very pricey keyboard from Glorious Gmmk full size custom with khail box browns switches and I just love. I will remember that keyboard might be really nice one to take with you places on trip for like laptop use. Have a good one my friend and God Bless.
Weird. I just reinstalled my OS yesterday. Timing of this video couldn’t be more perfect. Thanks!
OMG Thank you!!! That center task bar alignment has been driving me batty for months.
Awesome video. Thank you! Very indepth and all in one place! I've been dreading setting up my new laptop arriving tomorrow. Having all this useful info in one place will make life a lot easier.
Ty. I am glad this popped up to view. Such great timing .
Bonus tip. For the newer Lenovo I had to be online to install windows. I haven't figured out a workaround for that yet :( 😞 However, we did figure out to create an offline user during setup. You just pick Domain user, and since you aren't joined to domain, you trick windows into creating a local user. Ty for video, btw
"I don't have Internet" is not available by default for the Windows Home edition, to bypass this:
Follow the Windows 11 install process until you get to the "choose a country" screen.
Press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt. Copy and paste OOBE\BYPASSNRO into command prompt, and press Enter to disable the Internet connection requirement. The computer will reboot, and take you back to the "choose a country" screen from there you can proceed with the "I don't have Internet" local account install.
And once you've finished all of that... create an image of the SSD to a hard drive. That way, you can simply restore that if it all goes tits up without having to go through the whole monotonous process again.
"Everything will be so round we'll have to buy circular monitors" LOL
i like round. feels warm
The first thing I did after downgrading to Windows 11 was "upgrading" back to Windows 10
Great Video. No one makes this kind of content any more
I'm pretty sure a lot of RUclipsrs do.
They definitely do lol
no one??? lol
chris titus does lol
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Followed your Windows 10 laptop setup guide from 8 years ago for 2 laptops, thanks for coming in clutch with a Windows 11 guide for my 3rd new laptop 👊
honestly a really good and informative video, not treating the watcher like a total moron. cheers i got some nice tips.
I really appreciate these windows optimization videos
Thanks for everything you do Logan.
GREAT !!
For Debloating, I use the Chris Titus Debloat Utility.
For more Clean-up I use Glary Utilities
Great content with lots of information explained well. Thank you.
Great video and ofc always enjoying your music. For viewers; I recommend GpuZ, a tiny app that will let you have a quick view of Gpu temp and usage statistics, as well as Cpu temp. HWiNFO64, MSI Afterburner, Notepad++, CpuZ, IrfanView and Winamp (newly updated!) are a few others.
I download all the apps you listed on a new install except for Winamp. I switched to Foobar when Winamp was discontinued years ago and I can't go back, lol.
Getting ready to swap out the 2TB nVME in my Thinkpad P1 for a 4TB (huge dropbox for work) and wanted to play around with my current setup to try things out. This video was super helpful.
Tried a windows debloat app (BloatyNosyapp), the checkmark on icons has annoyed me for months and never knew compact mode existed either. Explorer Patcher is the icing on the cake. Super mall task bar, legacy style taskbar without icons and Win 10 right-click (without reg edit), Win 10 start menu - now it feels like I'm running Windows 11 Pro for Workstations. Thanks!
Great video. Some updates: Windows 11 now has an EarTrumpet type functionality built-in. And HTTPS Everywhere's no longer available since Firefox comes with something similar built-in.
This was great. Subscribed. Thanks for showing us these tools!
Dude! I didn't even know you were in a rock band until watcing this video. I retired from playing lead guitar many years ago due to illness. I hope you and your bandmates are well.
When you say things like Windows Defender is really good, it is better than everything else, I'm very curious where you got that information from? Could you possibly link some sources or say if it is based on your experience as a user in terms of how easy it is to use or whatever.
Windows hasn't needed third party anti virus for flipping years man. waste of money
i just learnt from another video that when installing win 11 if you set it to english world it wont install all those apps like tik tok and disney etc, then you can just change it to english US after install
Yes that would have been a better way to get rid of the bloatware....so much easier
i looove the 8-bit music thing in the background. chef's kiss
I work full-time for a software development company but I also own a computer repair business and I have a great collection of RUclips channels to stay informed. Just subscribed. I have been dual booting my main laptop with Windows 10 and Kali linux. Kali is awesome, i love cli.
I'm not sure if it works with a purchased pre-installed WIndows 11, but you can avoid all the bloatware by selecting "English (world)" as your language during installation. Never had bloatware since doing that. I also recommend "StartAllBack" as my favourite taskbar/start manager (it's less than the price of 1 coffee).
your right.
Uhgg I wish I had read this comment before starting my new computer!!!
Cool video, fun and informative with a solid delivery
This is great! Just bought a refurbished T480 and it'll be my first ThinkPad since my X60 - which still works!! In spite of being dropped three feet in my rental SUV in Vegas back when it was new (2006?!) and the hard drive was spinning! A tank. Can't wait to try out my new-to-me i7 Lenovo ThinkPad T480 8650UU laptop and rest easy knowing I'm getting the initial setup right!
I can say with complete confidence that i7 will perform great for every day tasks and even some (VERY) light gaming. Shouldn't skip a beat other than graphics heavy tasks.
The last computer I did out of the box Windows 11 the option for no internet wasn't there. Had to Shift F10 and tick tack the magic commands to bypass that crap.
Thanks for the tips.
However, I’m puzzled that you didn’t mention one of the most important Windows settings that must be changed - show file extensions in Windows Explorer.
Mine windows 11 new gaming laptop showed them by default.
Thank's for some really nice tips and hints! They are great time savers!
Thank you so much for making this video!! It has helped me tremendously
Great video, many thanks. I'm really digging your music too, great stuff.
The first thing I do is get the license-key from the motherboard, download a Linux-distro, put it on a USB-stick, boot from the USB-stick and remove all the partitions and make new partitions for UEFI, the Linux-distro and the home-directory and then install Linux. I used Windows XP, 7 and 10 and 11. I really can't tolerate Windows as since version 10. Version 7 broke my system more than one but when it worked I could tolerate it. Windows 10 got too bad with all the nag-messages, hiding extensions, incredibly weird sorting in the file manager (like sorting on name and still having the recently added files on top), lack of consistent dark mode (when I used W10 for the last time), the horrible update-process with countless interruptions. It even drove me nuts in the short time that I dualbooted with Windows10, anytime I started it up it was update-time first while I just wanted to play a game. Why are updates on Windows so slow? On Arch Linux a 2 GB update takes 2-3 minutes, and that is only because I have slow internet (8-9 MBps download).
are you in the u.k? i just checked out your channel and saw that you are subbed to gbnews?
One thing he missed, before turning on Bit Locker, be sure to install a printer, so that you can print and store the key. You can also sign in and out of your MS Account and back up the key there. Watch yourself here, some Laptop OEM Versions of Windows Pro automatically enable Bit Locker and I have had done initial updates, that caused the Bit Locker Screen appear after restart, this only happened once with a Dell, but if I di not have the printed Key I would have been SOOL and would have needed to download and reinstall Windows and Dell Apps and stated all over again!
Amazing video and ideas thank you my friend! Love from Greece!
What I can also recommend is to create a shortcut for the Reset in the taskbar. So you can just make a reset with one click instead going the way over the start button.
Right click on the desktop, New, Shortcut, type shutdown /r /t 0 then next, you can name it Reset and finish
Then right click on the icon, properties, shortcut, change icon, you can choose then the shutdown icon
Great video, thanks for making this. New to Windows 11 myself and this was very helpful. I do got to admit, I like some of the changes since I have the Surface Pro 9, and a lot of the changes are great for when I am using it as a tablet. But your vide was such a great help to get my machine dialed in for my perfect experience. Looks and works like a desktop/laptop when I have the keyboard attached, and great tablet experience when I use it in that mode. Perfect tips and tricks here. Followed you, excellent content!
I am away from my laptop at this moment. But i have just purchased extra storage and upgraded ram and ssd for it. Now, I can't wait to install my new ugrades and start fresh from scratch, using the information you provide in this great video. Thank you for helping those of us who are less knowledgeable about this stuff. Best video I've found yet. Thanks again.
Thank you for taking the time out of your day to break this down for folks who know a little about tech but not much about the importance of security in our systems. Much appreciated!
Thanks for tutorial. I would also add uncheck hide folder/file extensions.
This video is underrated. It deserves millions of views! Microsoft is shoving so much garbage with Windows 11 and soon 12. Thanks a lot for your honest advice!
It is if you like advertising!
His changes to Windows 11 makes it look like KDE Plasma.
Speaking of anti virus. I tried different ones with my old laptop because it was just good enough to run most games at playable fps so every single frame mattered. Windows defender is really good for that. But actually Kaspersky lite (the free one) gave me an extra fps boost even over defender. But it has to be the free one, the full one is comparable to defender when it comes to its effect on the fps
As already mentioned “no one makes videos like this anymore.” And I “totally agree.”
Clear concise speedy, very informative and intuitive. You have a new subscriber today. Absolutely amazing video love the topic. I love it when two minds think a like. Absolutely 👍👍 and of course ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thanks so much my friend for all you do !!!
Old school IT professional here (think punch cards through Win 10). I love your style. Excellent content. You got a sub.
You should know that firefox has an https only mode - no plugs needed.
I know one thing I need, I need to be able to disable super (windows key) + C so that Cortana is not accidentally triggered.
Wish he covered Cortana removal
try o&o shut up
Interesting though one thing I normally do from a security standpoint is that I'll normally set up a local account with limited access rather than use a supervisor level account. If I need supervisor level, I'll temporarily go to supervisor level until I no longer need it. I'll normally set the supervisor up as a separate account rather than use the built-in account and I won't use the built-in guest account either. That's usually one of the last things I'll do when setting up Windows.
HTTPS everywhere is no longer available. Any alternatives you recommend?
Hey good ol tek syndicate been a minute! Good video brother thanks!
the most detailed and useful information on new laptops for dummies 💯
what is life? life is installing and uninstalling and updating and restarting and coffee-drinking and jittering and fidgeting and finally flatlining... .. . ______
Getting new laptop soon, this is gold, thanks fella.
Thanks - That was informative, and you are a great orator!
Thanks so much for this
Love these kind of videos alongside NAS videos.
Great video. As a legacy PC user who’s been in the Mac game for a while this is a nice intro to getting a newly acquired laptop setup.
Best advice there is, tanks. I followed nearly all of it, worked perfectly.
Serendipity! My laptop was just delivered (upgrade from Windows 7). Thanks so much for all this info. I can venture forth with confidence and unbox this thing. And *maybe* retire my trusty 10 year-old PC.
One more thing i always do:
Show file extensions for known file types.😊
Yeah, why?
I have a huge proponent of ReviOS. It's a stripped version of windows 11. Everything useful still works, with zero bloat.
its i am s huge proponent.
HEY, I just found your channel and subbed! I love it already. Thanks for sharing
Logans the man
Awesome demo. I thought I was savvy setting up new Machines but got into the habit of “same as before and before that and before that” this is a whole new way
i love how your videos always leave me smarter than before!
Thanks for these and compact view because it was driving me crazy!
thanks heaps it helped lots
Awesome video! So helpful. Thanks
Do you have a video for the steam installation in a separate folder?
Thanks for the video ... getting a new Windows 11 laptop in next week ... can't wait to de-bloatify it using your tips!
Thanks man. I'll be having a new system by tomorrow and will use most of this steps.
I just recently got a laptop that came with Win 11. And during the setup on mine, there was sadly no window with the option to sign up without being connected to the internet.
When trying to, it kept giving me messages like "oops, it seems you are not connected to the internet. Let's go back to the previous step/get you connected."
And I had watched several videos on how to set up without a connection and without signing in to the Microsoft account.
I did not manage to set up without signing into a Microsoft account either.
When I tried it just kept telling me to get a Microsoft account and sign in. And I could not find a way to advance beyond those pages without doing it. It did not display any option to "skip".
There might be new workabouts for this. But what is in the videos I have seen even a few months old ones, does not seem to work anymore. At least it didn't work with mine.
What brand is your laptop?
That UAC tip is really good, thanks
Really organized and beyond helpful. Amazing work.
Truely not all hero wears cape.
The copy of Windows 11 I have bypasses ALL of the options during install and goes right to the desktop. Office 2021 is included :)
Does ur children steal candy, why, man sorry balles in mirror to blame
@@jussikankinen9409 No idea what that's supposed to mean.
In my case turning off the Internet did not work. I used a wrong MS account and then it offered me the option to go ahead with local account.
This is such a fantastic video! Thank you sooo much!
I found a way around getting around the being forced to sign into a Microsoft account. Where it requested my user name and password, I typed random keys for both user name and password and when I pressed sign in it just said that it doesn't work and then proceeded to register me as a local user.
Same here
Without this helpful video I would have signed up though.
Looking around online to see how much space I should allocate for a restore point, i found this... (mainly surprised about the deletion of restore points!)
From windows support: "A space of approx. 10Gb will be enough for System Restore, because that will be enough for a few restore points and Windows updates automatically deletes restore points when a large Windows update is installed, so that space will be sufficient."
You cannot click on "I don't have a internet connection" with the home version of windows. You must have the pro version. Bit locker is also a pro only feature.
You can click it, but it requires using the command prompt
Thanks for the tip on Lenovo. My last computer was Dell and it was full of useless programs. I'm decided to upgrade to Lenovo.
i decided to.
cranking these videos out since windows 8 keep it up
If you don't have the internet or you do not want to boot up your new laptop to create a Microsoft online account when booting up Win 11 for the first time just wait for that part of the process to come up & if you do not see the option to bypass the setting up of a network to continue the first time set up just press (Shift & F10) together to get the command prompt window then type this command (oobe\bypassnro) That will restart the computer & skip the setting up of the network adapter to connect online part & also that annoying part of the first time Win11 install process that normally stops a lot of new users from bypassing that part of the install to be able to finish the process to get to the desktop.
You really do have to go insanely far out of your way to stop Windows 11's tracking behavior but it can be done. Windows and google etc. all love to use footprint style dns requests and windows alone has consistent issues leaking DNS requests and information across programs and network adapters. Windows throws out all kinds of dns requests to various services if you so much as open the start menu. Whether this matters is dependent on you but be sure to take that into account if you're gonna use a VPN like PIA. Many times PIA software can falter when using split tunnel modes and cause your computer to use your normal IP addresses despite having programs set to use only the VPN. Pi-Hole, VPNs, VMs, Docker, and WindowsSpyBlocker are all great ways to combat this but it requires what I would consider an overbearing amount of self discipline to maintain for most people.
I use 2 piholes plus the vpn... I've made videos on the pihole before, it might have been too much to include in one video, but you are right.
Love the video! thank you again. I've used this now 3 times! Keep up the good work!
Used your Whokeys code and link, thanks!
Th for this video, I do have a question. Can't we just uninstall the bloat through settings- Windows apps??
Wonderful video. One thing I would definitely have recommended is for users to consider tweaking their power settings whether it’s a laptop or desktop. You don’t always have to edit the settings but it’s always worth going through & perhaps creating a custom profile to run most of the time.
if you get an enterprise key you can eliminate all tracking completely. which is nice.
can you please elaborate? ty
Waow
Can’t wait to try all this
Beautiful video
Thank you Thank you this video helped huge, anyone who just got a new laptop or pc this is the only video you need to watch to get you started
worthy guide for Windows 11 but i would still prefer windows 10 ,8,7. only choose 11 cause i am bound to use it while work and study
Sir, would you do a video on how you install Steam?
Thanks