Unpopular opinion : I have no issue with Windows 11 and even like it more than Windows 10. It just takes a few minutes to debloat it, just like we needed to with Windows 10.
I'm building a pc soon and I'm gonna use windows 11 My main issue is that to initially set up the computer I don't wanna have to use an internet account I don't need to give microsoft more data than they already have The fact that I have to use indirect workarounds is ridiculous to me
I was SO MAD that they DISABLED the taskbar on top. I had to edit a registry key to re-enable it. WAY less mouse travel with taskbar on top - since window and application menus/controls are also on top.
Another way to bring up the snipping tool is win+shift+S. I memorized this because I use so many different computers throughout the day doing support work.
Great shortcut, especially for Windows 11. Another of note is Alt + PrtScn to capture only the active window you're working in. In Windows 10 this will copy it to your clipboard, so you'll need to paste it into another program to save it; in Windows 11, it'll both copy and save it to the Screenshots folder right away.
Install without internet: Windows 10 or 11: once prompted to connect to the internet: Shift+F10 to open command prompt. Type: OOBE\bypassNRO, enter. System reboots. Click "Don't have internet". Continue, with limited setup.
I think somebody on YT tried that and WORKED 😀👍 BUT, ended with a TON of missing Device Drivers and had to fix that After, Specially if you get No NETWORK Drivers 🤪🙃
My step 11 is creating a Macrium Reflect image, which I do every month for all my desktops and laptops after installing the monthly Windows updates. Store them off-line to protect them from ransomware. Data is back-upped more frequent.
One year late on the video and Windows 11 is creating problems for me. An unidentified Win11 update after fresh install is making my PC unresponsive, to be exact after restart. Whole system becomes inoperable I'm losing my mind. Fresh install - works perfectly - then update, then restart and seconds later can't do anything except moving mouse cursor Good tip with the restore point, thanks! It might save me some time figuring out what's causing the issue without having to reinstall every time
Windows 10 would have been fine. I think the reason most people like Windows 11 is because of the more modern and newer look to the UI, which looks awesome. I do feel like this didn't require a whole new OS. Just a big update to Windows 10.
For a local sign in for account instead of a MS account, when you install windows tell it you don't have a internet connection and it will setup a local account. Saves you having to sign in and then revert :)
When installing updates on Windows 11 make sure they once you've hit check for updates go to the advanced update options then click "optional updates." This is where you will find all your driver updates, in windows 10 it was just a simple option, but for some reason I'm window 11 they hid it under advanced options
I installed the basic Windows 11 Lite version on a spare computer. Installed in about 2 minutes. I'm not joking. THAT fast. The first time I did it, the screen resolution was stuck on 600x800. NOTHING could change it. I tried everything. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled hoping I might strike lucky. And I did. The resolution now has many options. It's perfect for my monitor. I think Lite is great. Makes the computer run very fast but I never use a browser with my passwords on it. Cheers.
There is a way to bypass the requirement to setup an online account during setup (worked last time I tried)... you don't have to wait till after it's installed: 1. At “Let’s connect you to a network” screen, press SHIFT+F10 keys together. It’ll launch Command Prompt window on the top of setup wizard window. 2. Now type ipconfig /release in Command Prompt window and press Enter. 3. Close Command Prompt window and the Windows 11 setup wizard will show some progress with the circle animation and continue with local account setup
The Onedrive integration in windows 11 caused so much frustration, I briefly considered getting a Mac, after I lengthily considered tracking down Bill Gates and doing to him literally what Windows 11 did to me figuratively.
1:20 Disabling system sounds is truly awful advice. If they are interrupting you, right click on the sound icon in the task bar, open Volume Mixer, and lower the system sounds for your active or desired audio output device. Getting audible feedback for off-screen errors or operations is invaluable. You really only have two kinds of feedback for most use-cases on a computer. Sound and Sight. If you don't see it, and can't hear it, you won't know about it.
5:50 You are incorrect, You can setup offline even if you have ethernet/wifi. Druing region setup press Shift F10 type taskmgr then kill network stack connection/socket. This will instantly take you to screen to setup local account :)
Protip: MS Account NOT needed at any point. I install windows 11 frequently fixing computers or setting up new ones to sell. All you have to do to skip sign in is plug in the ethernet.. when it asks to create or sign in, unplug the Ethernet after clicking create account and it will instantly just let you pick a name and move on (leave password blank etc)
I was about to say does no one know this. I install different OS's daily and never enter a username or password. Just leave the password field blank when it asks you to create one and when it tells you you will need to change it
That's exactly what I did a few days ago because believe me or not it's frustrating having to log into Microsoft Account every time you reinstall windows. Windows 10 doesn;t force you to do that.
Or..OR.. you could also just also press ALT + PtrSC, that way with the ALT modifier, it'll only Screenshot your currently highlighted/active program/window.
Thanks for making this guide. Ironically it landed on my play list the day before I am due to receive the parts I need in order to build my new Windows 11 gaming build.
God mode seems to be dead in windows 11 22h2 update, Anyone else have this issue with 22h2 update or am I doing something wrong?.... UPDATE Yes I was doing something wrong LOL did not copy paste the . (dot) when naming the folder it still works!
You forgot the most important one, set the pile of garbage on fire. Anyone know of a way to get it to stop giving me a blue screen of death and hard reboot every night while I sleep?
windows 11 updates are on the way for over an hour, had win 10 update take 6 hours and many reboots so I'm solving this with Fedora since I won't game with it anyway. I feel sorry for pc gamers that this is what they have to work with.
Talk about answer files if you didn't, rufus the bootable usb maker has customizable checkboxes like setting a local account, debloat, and more, these are in one place called an answer file, this is when you pick the windows 11 iso
1:20 I just bought Win 11 laptop and there IS an easy way now in System>Notifications, and under Notifications, there is an option to uncheck "allow notifications to play sounds." 2:08 Now you can right click and unpin
LOVE CLICKING ON A VIDEO LIKE THIS AND REALIZE... HE'S USING MY EXACT LAPTOP! Great feeling knowing I did the research and bought the right equipment. Pat on the back moment.
A quick tip is to go through the startup menu and stop a lot of, if all the unnecessary programs from starting. You don't have to uninstall them, but, you can use them later and they aren't always searching for updates every time you boot.
The tips do help but for as long as Gamepass/Forza Horizon/Motorsport allow it I will remain on WIndows 10. Or until MS kills the free update program. Gotta love how they keep trying to hide the Control Panel further and further away from us and we still find it every time. It's amazing that the user analysis of that translates to hide the Control Panel even deeper next Windows for MS. Can one set 11 to limit updates like one could with Windows 10 to some degree (where one set it to using metered connection which stopped most automatic system updates)?
It's from their poor interpretation of their telemetry data that tells them those menu's are the least used menus and so therefore we need to simplify the UI by removing them. But the thing is you only need them seldomly, but when you do... you really don't want to have to dig for eternity trying to find them. If they want to simplify then they should just integrate the god mode menu into a single item in the settings menu and be done.
with the current version of windows 11 it is *not* necessary to log into a microsoft account in order to create your initial account. if you tell it that you are setting this new computer up for work and that you want to join a domain, it will let you create a local account when you install windows 11. it won't even prompt you for joining any domain (you actually have to do the joining of the domain if that is, indeed, your goal by going to the accounts system settings and then clicking on access work or school OR more traditionally going to the system/about system settings, clicking on domain or workgroup, and then clicking "change" at the bottom of the system properties popup.) I've installed windows 11 on many machines (some of them domain joined, some of them not), and I have never used my microsoft account when setting them up.
IMHO it's a pretty good improvement over W10 once you de-crapify it. But the suggestion to create a restore point is a good one. Or do a clone using macrium reflect.
Win10 got the default programs setting right. Change for the sake of change just equates to messing up a good thing that works. And now it does't, thanks... change achieved.
@Alan Interesting ... while I'm certain you're experience is just as you say, it doesn't seem to make sense to me. A recovery partition is written by the OS during installation, so how would one install Windows 11 afresh on a blank SSD in the first place without a recovery partition being present? I wouldn't imagine a Windows install would tamper with your BIOS. However, you could've given a "reset to defaults" within the BIOS a go. Still, I grant you that you're experience is rather puzzling and I would have thought that if this were so then there would be a mass of reports such as yours all over the web. personally, I always keep a full drive image of my OS partitions prior to any upgrade and so I would've simply reverted to my last image in order to recover to Windows 10 and not rely on Microsoft to allow me to do this easily only within the first 10 days. Perhaps ironically, my wife has a new laptop arriving today with 11 pre-installed. I am curious now to see if I can boot it using a Windows 10 USB boot stick and see if I can see the SSD. P.S. One thought that has just occurred to me is whether the SSD in question was SATA or NVME? If it was the latter, then perhaps the Windows 10 boot stick did not have the required NVME drivers for your laptop model in order to be seen. The newer Windows 11 boot media probably comes with a more comprehensive array of NVME drivers and hence was able to "see" the drive. Although rare these days, there is a procedure to load third party drivers at a point during Windows install and perhaps that was a step required using the drivers originally provided with the laptop.
@Alan Interesting ... while I'm certain you're experience is just as you say, it doesn't seem to make sense to me. A recovery partition is written by the OS during installation, so how would one install Windows 11 afresh on a blank SSD in the first place without a recovery partition being present? I wouldn't imagine a Windows install would tamper with your BIOS. However, you could've given a "reset to defaults" within the BIOS a go. Still, I grant you that you're experience is rather puzzling and I would have thought that if this were so then there would be a mass of reports such as yours all over the web. personally, I always keep a full drive image of my OS partitions prior to any upgrade and so I would've simply reverted to my last image in order to recover to Windows 10 and not rely on Microsoft to allow me to do this easily only within the first 10 days. Perhaps ironically, my wife has a new laptop arriving today with 11 pre-installed. I am curious now to see if I can boot it using a Windows 10 USB boot stick and see if I can see the SSD. P.S. One thought that has just occurred to me is whether the SSD in question was SATA or NVME? If it was the latter, then perhaps the Windows 10 boot stick did not have the required NVME drivers for your laptop model in order to be seen. The newer Windows 11 boot media probably comes with a more comprehensive array of NVME drivers and hence was able to "see" the drive. Although rare these days, there is a procedure to load third party drivers at a point during Windows install and perhaps that was a step required using the drivers originally provided with the laptop.
I just run windows 11 off an old external Seagate drive, that I took out of the case and put it in my pc. Alot of the times your hard rive did not die. It was the usb board that powers it, that seems to be the problem. You lose the quick start up when you load the drive at first. But once it is loaded. It is smooth without any real hiccups. Windows 11 does not play the default when you want to install drivers and utilities
if you're toggling between languages, there's a nice floating language bar now that toggles between them so you can get those funny accents into your writing.
I swear Microsoft is constantly locked in a civil war, between it's Engineers and it's Marketing department. There's so much garbage in Windows 11 that no self respecting engineer ever would have signed off on. Windows is a platform that hosts tools. That's it. This constant insistence to push it into the forefront is the reason these updates keep failing. The OS should just shut up, get out of the way and let you do what you're trying to do.
I got bad news for everyone, when you install windows 11 it prompts you “are you sure, you cant go back to [Insert windows version your using]” if you want to downgrade you have to wipe the whole hard drive you or aren’t going back any time soon.
If Windows will move this way I'm seriously considering switching to Linux or Mac. The new taskbar is unacceptable. When I work with 2 documents I want to see them in the taskbar and just click document I want. Wtf is wrong with these UX/UI guys?
So many things are still missing from Windows 11, you can't shake a tab/window for it to then minimise all other windows. You can't drag an item from one folder and then hover over another folder on the taskbar for it to pop up and then drop them in there.
I have a new PC, which came with Windows 11 22H2. I don't like it. I have found that the only version of Windows that seemed to be worth a damn, was Windows XP.
Thank fek for this mate, damn machine kept going into bloede 'Power Save Mode' while I was in the middle of doing things and I was about to yeet it out the gd window 3 floors up.
You can bypass the Create MS Account requirement while initial setting up. Instead of clicking on Personal Use, change the setting to Business Login. This will change the way the account creation is set up. Then "after" everything is set up correctly and you have your account name/settings the way you want them, you can then "link" your MS account (if you so choose to do so) to the Local Account you created. Now your profile won't be your email name, it'll be what ever you wanted it to be from the start.
When I got my Asus ROG Zephyrus laptop, I couldn't sign in to my Microsoft account because I don't know my password. I use Lastpass, so I found a trick online to get into the OOBE command prompt during the setup and force it to allow me to set up an offline account. I had to make sure I wasn't connected to any of my networks, but it worked without signing in.
@@gtijason7853 Yeah, there was another command to run before that to force it to enable the account though. Don't remember what it was, but I'm sure some googling will help you find it.
@@danilol9417 Hope they fix some things before then.... Also W7 still works just fine for most things, its not like W10 will just self destruct in 2025.
oh wow i learned something from this video! it was the screen snipping thing i was manually screengrabbing or alt screen printing like a sucker for the restore point thing though I would just suggest people do a full disk backup using a program. i use macrium reflect (there is, finally, a jay-z video about this program) for my workflow and it has saved my butt a few times. imagine your entire plex server deciding to lose all customizations randomly. nooooooo Edit: okay it made prt scr show up the snipping thing in the middle of a game. if you're going to do this remember to use alt+prt scr if you need a quick grab
Dont know how i missed this Vid the first time around. I am actually subbed on your channel. Okay I have a suggestion that will greatly increase your freedom, your peace of privacy, and decrease the hoops you have to jump through on Winblows 11. Get Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon edition OS, or one of its many equivalents. No more sign ins, no more Microsoft looking over your shoulder, completely customizable Windows experience. It is yours, it truly belongs to you. Why do you think the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies use it over Windows.
There is no point for system restore anymore! Back in the old days yes, it was very usefull cause formating your pc was a nightmare and an absolute grind. These days every major OS that respect itselfs has mobile like ui and formating the os is a simple option in the settings. So when things slow down i just do a format-factory reset style from the options and im nice and done in matter of minuits. I wont even bother to use system restore
Your video highlights very good points and these are pretty much a must for Win 10 users transitioning to the 11. One my machine is a workstation and another one is a laptop. So the workstation is on Win 10 Pro as it can't be upgraded to 11(not that I want to anyway) and my laptop had Win 10 and I decided to upgrade to 11 but didn't like as some of the apps couldn't be installed, so I just reset it. Installed Win 11 so I could learn where important settings are hidden. Interesting that System restore was disabled on my laptop after I reset the laptop. Had to enable it to have a proper restore point. As for the widget, I still kept it on but heavily customized and it is showing just a weather in the taskbar.
Whats the point of creating a "restore point" when Windows eventually deletes it to make more space for new restore points??.. and yes, you can chose the size of the restore point alocated space but how far do you go with this?...
I must be one of the rare ones who actually likes Windows 11 as it is. The only thing that really bugs me is I can't show labels on taskbar icons and never combine them, to give the classic Windows taskbar look. But I actually like the settings menu, the start menu, and I don't feel the urge to install classic shell. And there's also other various UI tweaks that I like. I go back to trying to use the Windows 10 settings menu and I get frustrated.
Thanks for a great video. I’ve just purchased a brand-new Windows 11 pro laptop, and from day one having set it up, it keeps crashing with the blue screen of death. I cannot figure out why it is doing this but would you say, in your experience, that this would necessitate a cloud reinstall of windows? Do you think that would solve the problem? I gather that these blue screens are normally issues with drivers. Many thanks
I mean as a macOS and Linux guy, Windows 11 seems like an improvement to me over Windows 10 so far. Definitely agree with your changes though, for the most part.
If you install 'Windows11' on a local account from scratch, without the regular Windows, does this wipe off all the pre-installed programs that come with Windows? I ask cos a lot of vids show the 'Windows Icon pop-up window' after, that only has 'Settings' & one other on that pop-up. Thanks in advance! 👍
the laptop internet login bypass is a command prompt you need to to bring up cmp app then type an end the network should fix app it should fix it then allow you to bypass it but the issue is the Wi-Fi driver if you conect you have to hard boot tch tips ppl made a recent video on the work around
I hate windows 11. I keep having this issue where the searchbar or some windows prompt opens randomly whenever im playing games or even have some other app open. I've tried everything but windows is just such a piece of crap.
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Unpopular opinion : I have no issue with Windows 11 and even like it more than Windows 10. It just takes a few minutes to debloat it, just like we needed to with Windows 10.
I'm building a pc soon and I'm gonna use windows 11
My main issue is that to initially set up the computer I don't wanna have to use an internet account
I don't need to give microsoft more data than they already have
The fact that I have to use indirect workarounds is ridiculous to me
@@AceTheAro7 adamint set up a customers pc without connecting to the net as he didnt want to either recently, he typed some command in.
Why tf does it autosave everything to OneDrive and make it so hard to deal with OD?!
@@AceTheAro7 Microsoft getting that ai data
Same
I was SO MAD that they DISABLED the taskbar on top. I had to edit a registry key to re-enable it. WAY less mouse travel with taskbar on top - since window and application menus/controls are also on top.
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Excellent point! Glad I know where to look now!
how did you fix the problem that the windows preview doesnt show anymore when you have multi windows open of the same application?
How do you move it? I can't stand it on the bottom either!
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Another way to bring up the snipping tool is win+shift+S. I memorized this because I use so many different computers throughout the day doing support work.
I may also have to memorize this shortcut!
Great shortcut, especially for Windows 11. Another of note is Alt + PrtScn to capture only the active window you're working in. In Windows 10 this will copy it to your clipboard, so you'll need to paste it into another program to save it; in Windows 11, it'll both copy and save it to the Screenshots folder right away.
As a fan of both snipping and small keyboards this just changed my life
Yeah I use this method all the time when I want to take pictures of stuff and not my whole screen, It's very handy and comfortable!
that's useful
Install without internet: Windows 10 or 11: once prompted to connect to the internet: Shift+F10 to open command prompt.
Type: OOBE\bypassNRO, enter. System reboots. Click "Don't have internet". Continue, with limited setup.
That's another great way to do it as well
I think somebody on YT tried that and WORKED 😀👍 BUT, ended with a TON of missing Device Drivers and had to fix that After, Specially if you get No NETWORK Drivers 🤪🙃
@@benygh911 Well if you have no network drivers, then you won't be connected to the internet anyway
@@warthunder1969 🤪🙃 yeah, we're TOASTED, with M$
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i had to do this today it works
My step 11 is creating a Macrium Reflect image, which I do every month for all my desktops and laptops after installing the monthly Windows updates. Store them off-line to protect them from ransomware. Data is back-upped more frequent.
Backed-up*
Get rid of Bing search with a registry edit. I just did it and it makes the search function clean and not frustrating with web search stuff
One year late on the video and Windows 11 is creating problems for me.
An unidentified Win11 update after fresh install is making my PC unresponsive, to be exact after restart. Whole system becomes inoperable
I'm losing my mind. Fresh install - works perfectly - then update, then restart and seconds later can't do anything except moving mouse cursor
Good tip with the restore point, thanks! It might save me some time figuring out what's causing the issue without having to reinstall every time
Windows 10 would have been fine. I think the reason most people like Windows 11 is because of the more modern and newer look to the UI, which looks awesome. I do feel like this didn't require a whole new OS. Just a big update to Windows 10.
It’s the fact that it’s starting to take control out of the users hands
For a local sign in for account instead of a MS account, when you install windows tell it you don't have a internet connection and it will setup a local account.
Saves you having to sign in and then revert :)
When installing updates on Windows 11 make sure they once you've hit check for updates go to the advanced update options then click "optional updates." This is where you will find all your driver updates, in windows 10 it was just a simple option, but for some reason I'm window 11 they hid it under advanced options
Thank you I always wondered how I would get to update my drivers
Wow-I just found multiple updates in there. Geez!
Great Thanks for tip
I installed the basic Windows 11 Lite version on a spare computer. Installed in about 2 minutes. I'm not joking. THAT fast. The first time I did it, the screen resolution was stuck on 600x800. NOTHING could change it. I tried everything. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled hoping I might strike lucky. And I did. The resolution now has many options. It's perfect for my monitor. I think Lite is great. Makes the computer run very fast but I never use a browser with my passwords on it. Cheers.
Actually, the godmode text string is: "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" (without the quotes of course).
There is a way to bypass the requirement to setup an online account during setup (worked last time I tried)... you don't have to wait till after it's installed:
1. At “Let’s connect you to a network” screen, press SHIFT+F10 keys together. It’ll launch Command Prompt window on the top of setup wizard window.
2. Now type ipconfig /release in Command Prompt window and press Enter.
3. Close Command Prompt window and the Windows 11 setup wizard will show some progress with the circle animation and continue with local account setup
The Onedrive integration in windows 11 caused so much frustration, I briefly considered getting a Mac, after I lengthily considered tracking down Bill Gates and doing to him literally what Windows 11 did to me figuratively.
1:20 Disabling system sounds is truly awful advice.
If they are interrupting you, right click on the sound icon in the task bar, open Volume Mixer, and lower the system sounds for your active or desired audio output device.
Getting audible feedback for off-screen errors or operations is invaluable. You really only have two kinds of feedback for most use-cases on a computer. Sound and Sight. If you don't see it, and can't hear it, you won't know about it.
5:50 You are incorrect, You can setup offline even if you have ethernet/wifi. Druing region setup press Shift F10 type taskmgr then kill network stack connection/socket. This will instantly take you to screen to setup local account :)
Thank you! Just to clarify - simply unplugging my Ethernet cable before starting the installation would also work, right?
Protip: MS Account NOT needed at any point. I install windows 11 frequently fixing computers or setting up new ones to sell. All you have to do to skip sign in is plug in the ethernet.. when it asks to create or sign in, unplug the Ethernet after clicking create account and it will instantly just let you pick a name and move on (leave password blank etc)
I was about to say does no one know this. I install different OS's daily and never enter a username or password. Just leave the password field blank when it asks you to create one and when it tells you you will need to change it
well now I know 3 ways to get past MS account setup :)
Dude...game changer
Tysm
seems things have changed a tiny bit with 22H2. Seems you have to press Shift+F10 , type oobe\bypassnro to skip the sign up now.
i still don't understand why people hate edge browser. You can just change the browser engine in edge.
Seeing the taskbar moved to the left was very satisfying for some reason.
Step 1: Make a fresh install of windows 10.
That's exactly what I did a few days ago because believe me or not it's frustrating having to log into Microsoft Account every time you reinstall windows. Windows 10 doesn;t force you to do that.
You spelled Windows 7 wrong
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You all guys misspelled Ubuntu...
@@TheQuranIsTheWayYou spelled TempleOS wrong
God mode folder doesn't work for me
New desktop only has Win 11. this video is still very useful in 2023. Thanks.
I didn’t realize you could map snipping tool to printscr! That’s a game changer for my support workflow! Thanks!
win + shift + s by default
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@@highbred I use an ibm model m, I have no windows key.
@@joshhardin666 Win key is crucial for productivity. WIN + E, WIN + PRNTSCRN, WIN + D, WIN + R, etc.
@@RareFXChrisC I don't know what those are, but I can reassure you that my productivity is unhindered.
@@RareFXChrisC Bro ever heard of Auto Hotkey?
You can for sure setup your pc in offline mode with selecting domain join. It won't actually make you join a domain.
Or..OR.. you could also just also press ALT + PtrSC, that way with the ALT modifier, it'll only Screenshot your currently highlighted/active program/window.
Thanks for making this guide. Ironically it landed on my play list the day before I am due to receive the parts I need in order to build my new Windows 11 gaming build.
Have you finished your build, tested it for gaming yet?. My pc parts also on the way. Still can't decide if I stick with win10 or win11 fresh install.
New ride due next week :) it should be great once I come to terms with topics like covered here!
God mode folder name isn't correct. Doesn't work
God mode seems to be dead in windows 11 22h2 update, Anyone else have this issue with 22h2 update or am I doing something wrong?.... UPDATE Yes I was doing something wrong LOL did not copy paste the . (dot) when naming the folder it still works!
You forgot the most important one, set the pile of garbage on fire.
Anyone know of a way to get it to stop giving me a blue screen of death and hard reboot every night while I sleep?
windows 11 updates are on the way for over an hour, had win 10 update take 6 hours and many reboots so I'm solving this with Fedora since I won't game with it anyway. I feel sorry for pc gamers that this is what they have to work with.
Talk about answer files if you didn't, rufus the bootable usb maker has customizable checkboxes like setting a local account, debloat, and more, these are in one place called an answer file, this is when you pick the windows 11 iso
1:20 I just bought Win 11 laptop and there IS an easy way now in System>Notifications, and under Notifications, there is an option to uncheck "allow notifications to play sounds."
2:08 Now you can right click and unpin
LOVE CLICKING ON A VIDEO LIKE THIS AND REALIZE... HE'S USING MY EXACT LAPTOP! Great feeling knowing I did the research and bought the right equipment. Pat on the back moment.
A quick tip is to go through the startup menu and stop a lot of, if all the unnecessary programs from starting. You don't have to uninstall them, but, you can use them later and they aren't always searching for updates every time you boot.
Right click the audio icon in the taskbar, open volume mixer. Mute System sounds.
How to disable the opening Windows 11 desktop which shows "M/S search" and "content from M/S start window". And thank you from you presentation!
The tips do help but for as long as Gamepass/Forza Horizon/Motorsport allow it I will remain on WIndows 10. Or until MS kills the free update program.
Gotta love how they keep trying to hide the Control Panel further and further away from us and we still find it every time. It's amazing that the user analysis of that translates to hide the Control Panel even deeper next Windows for MS.
Can one set 11 to limit updates like one could with Windows 10 to some degree (where one set it to using metered connection which stopped most automatic system updates)?
It's from their poor interpretation of their telemetry data that tells them those menu's are the least used menus and so therefore we need to simplify the UI by removing them. But the thing is you only need them seldomly, but when you do... you really don't want to have to dig for eternity trying to find them. If they want to simplify then they should just integrate the god mode menu into a single item in the settings menu and be done.
with the current version of windows 11 it is *not* necessary to log into a microsoft account in order to create your initial account. if you tell it that you are setting this new computer up for work and that you want to join a domain, it will let you create a local account when you install windows 11. it won't even prompt you for joining any domain (you actually have to do the joining of the domain if that is, indeed, your goal by going to the accounts system settings and then clicking on access work or school OR more traditionally going to the system/about system settings, clicking on domain or workgroup, and then clicking "change" at the bottom of the system properties popup.) I've installed windows 11 on many machines (some of them domain joined, some of them not), and I have never used my microsoft account when setting them up.
IMHO it's a pretty good improvement over W10 once you de-crapify it. But the suggestion to create a restore point is a good one. Or do a clone using macrium reflect.
9 - Windows snipping tool, I use: Win + Shift + S to make a shot of something.
You are a pro at computers. Please slow down your presentation so the masses can follow you.
Win10 got the default programs setting right.
Change for the sake of change just equates to messing up a good thing that works. And now it does't, thanks... change achieved.
thx for the video. It would be nice if you could explain the prosses of accessing that created restore point in the case that something went wrong?
The best tweak to improve Windows 11 is to uninstall it and return to Windows 10 :) :)
@Alan Interesting ... while I'm certain you're experience is just as you say, it doesn't seem to make sense to me. A recovery partition is written by the OS during installation, so how would one install Windows 11 afresh on a blank SSD in the first place without a recovery partition being present? I wouldn't imagine a Windows install would tamper with your BIOS. However, you could've given a "reset to defaults" within the BIOS a go. Still, I grant you that you're experience is rather puzzling and I would have thought that if this were so then there would be a mass of reports such as yours all over the web. personally, I always keep a full drive image of my OS partitions prior to any upgrade and so I would've simply reverted to my last image in order to recover to Windows 10 and not rely on Microsoft to allow me to do this easily only within the first 10 days.
Perhaps ironically, my wife has a new laptop arriving today with 11 pre-installed. I am curious now to see if I can boot it using a Windows 10 USB boot stick and see if I can see the SSD.
P.S. One thought that has just occurred to me is whether the SSD in question was SATA or NVME? If it was the latter, then perhaps the Windows 10 boot stick did not have the required NVME drivers for your laptop model in order to be seen. The newer Windows 11 boot media probably comes with a more comprehensive array of NVME drivers and hence was able to "see" the drive. Although rare these days, there is a procedure to load third party drivers at a point during Windows install and perhaps that was a step required using the drivers originally provided with the laptop.
@Alan Interesting ... while I'm certain you're experience is just as you say, it doesn't seem to make sense to me. A recovery partition is written by the OS during installation, so how would one install Windows 11 afresh on a blank SSD in the first place without a recovery partition being present? I wouldn't imagine a Windows install would tamper with your BIOS. However, you could've given a "reset to defaults" within the BIOS a go. Still, I grant you that you're experience is rather puzzling and I would have thought that if this were so then there would be a mass of reports such as yours all over the web. personally, I always keep a full drive image of my OS partitions prior to any upgrade and so I would've simply reverted to my last image in order to recover to Windows 10 and not rely on Microsoft to allow me to do this easily only within the first 10 days.
Perhaps ironically, my wife has a new laptop arriving today with 11 pre-installed. I am curious now to see if I can boot it using a Windows 10 USB boot stick and see if I can see the SSD.
P.S. One thought that has just occurred to me is whether the SSD in question was SATA or NVME? If it was the latter, then perhaps the Windows 10 boot stick did not have the required NVME drivers for your laptop model in order to be seen. The newer Windows 11 boot media probably comes with a more comprehensive array of NVME drivers and hence was able to "see" the drive. Although rare these days, there is a procedure to load third party drivers at a point during Windows install and perhaps that was a step required using the drivers originally provided with the laptop.
@Alan Hi Alan. Thanks for the update. That will save me having to mess with a brand new laptop :)
@Alan you could of just bought a new ssd and programed that...
god mode is practically exec files you can find in the system32 folder, yes you can search for it but isn't it great to know the programs location
I just run windows 11 off an old external Seagate drive, that I took out of the case and put it in my pc. Alot of the times your hard rive did not die. It was the usb board that powers it, that seems to be the problem. You lose the quick start up when you load the drive at first. But once it is loaded. It is smooth without any real hiccups. Windows 11 does not play the default when you want to install drivers and utilities
You can set up Windows with local account. There are ways to do it, rather simple as well.
if you're toggling between languages, there's a nice floating language bar now that toggles between them so you can get those funny accents into your writing.
Uninstalling?
I swear Microsoft is constantly locked in a civil war, between it's Engineers and it's Marketing department. There's so much garbage in Windows 11 that no self respecting engineer ever would have signed off on.
Windows is a platform that hosts tools. That's it. This constant insistence to push it into the forefront is the reason these updates keep failing. The OS should just shut up, get out of the way and let you do what you're trying to do.
AMEN!! let us tinker with our computers!!
right? well said
How to fix it:
Don't upgrade
I got bad news for everyone, when you install windows 11 it prompts you “are you sure, you cant go back to [Insert windows version your using]” if you want to downgrade you have to wipe the whole hard drive you or aren’t going back any time soon.
You also have to know how to navigate the boot menu and you need a usb drive to boot windows 10 from
If Windows will move this way I'm seriously considering switching to Linux or Mac. The new taskbar is unacceptable. When I work with 2 documents I want to see them in the taskbar and just click document I want. Wtf is wrong with these UX/UI guys?
So many things are still missing from Windows 11, you can't shake a tab/window for it to then minimise all other windows.
You can't drag an item from one folder and then hover over another folder on the taskbar for it to pop up and then drop them in there.
Title bar shake is definitely there, just off by default. System > Multitasking.
I got a new PC and I wanted to know if it's worth changing to Windows 11. Is that much different/better? I will use my PC mostly for games.
I have a new PC, which came with Windows 11 22H2. I don't like it. I have found that the only version of Windows that seemed to be worth a damn, was Windows XP.
Thank fek for this mate, damn machine kept going into bloede 'Power Save Mode' while I was in the middle of doing things and I was about to yeet it out the gd window 3 floors up.
I fixed it by moving to Arch Linux (EndevourOS KDE Plasma) and couldn't be happier!
ha! fix it with fire
the god mode folder does not work anymore
YOU ARE A BLESSING!!!!!! 8&9 were my best! Thanks you just got a subscriber!
godmode folder no longer works
You can bypass the Create MS Account requirement while initial setting up. Instead of clicking on Personal Use, change the setting to Business Login. This will change the way the account creation is set up.
Then "after" everything is set up correctly and you have your account name/settings the way you want them, you can then "link" your MS account (if you so choose to do so) to the Local Account you created.
Now your profile won't be your email name, it'll be what ever you wanted it to be from the start.
ever since I installed Windows11, I cant download any files, it reports anit-virus may have blocked it
When I got my Asus ROG Zephyrus laptop, I couldn't sign in to my Microsoft account because I don't know my password. I use Lastpass, so I found a trick online to get into the OOBE command prompt during the setup and force it to allow me to set up an offline account. I had to make sure I wasn't connected to any of my networks, but it worked without signing in.
Like this ? Shift+F10
to bring up the command prompt.
Type CD c:\windows\system32\oobe
Type msoobe and hit Enter.
@@gtijason7853 Yeah, there was another command to run before that to force it to enable the account though. Don't remember what it was, but I'm sure some googling will help you find it.
install windows n version (you can still download store apps, w/o account)
using windows 11 for the first time in my life on a laptop I just bought. man I hate it so far.
The best tweak for windows 11 is to just keep windows 10 for now. There is just so much wrong with w11 it's too painful.
yes but in 2 years windows 10 wont be supportet anymore and then microsoft will force you to upgrade
@@danilol9417 Hope they fix some things before then.... Also W7 still works just fine for most things, its not like W10 will just self destruct in 2025.
@@bigblue4364 ye but you will not get any security updates anymore
The "God Mode" key doesn't work, says my folder is empty.
I would say immediately after getting your new laptop preinstalled with windows 11 is to format your drive and install windows 10
How did you enter that emoji?
@@DBgenerallike this
@@Tsnafu Where did you get that emoji🥲🥺
@@DBgeneral it was next to this one - seriously though, I think it's one of the BTTV options "Shows BetterTTV emotes on RUclips Live Chat"
oh wow i learned something from this video! it was the screen snipping thing i was manually screengrabbing or alt screen printing like a sucker
for the restore point thing though I would just suggest people do a full disk backup using a program. i use macrium reflect (there is, finally, a jay-z video about this program) for my workflow and it has saved my butt a few times. imagine your entire plex server deciding to lose all customizations randomly. nooooooo
Edit: okay it made prt scr show up the snipping thing in the middle of a game. if you're going to do this remember to use alt+prt scr if you need a quick grab
FYI Taskbar icons can simply be drag-and-dropped to or from the overflow menu....
1. Turn off background apps (settings-> privacy)
2. Turn off user account control
Solid guide! Thanks for this!
Can you not press alt + F4 anymore during windows 11 installation, when it asks to sign in? It worked for me a couple of times.
Dont know how i missed this Vid the first time around. I am actually subbed on your channel. Okay I have a suggestion that will greatly increase your freedom, your peace of privacy, and decrease the hoops you have to jump through on Winblows 11. Get Linux Mint 21 Cinnamon edition OS, or one of its many equivalents. No more sign ins, no more Microsoft looking over your shoulder, completely customizable Windows experience. It is yours, it truly belongs to you. Why do you think the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies use it over Windows.
Wait .. I do need Microsoft account ?
There is no point for system restore anymore!
Back in the old days yes, it was very usefull cause formating your pc was a nightmare and an absolute grind.
These days every major OS that respect itselfs has mobile like ui and formating the os is a simple option in the settings.
So when things slow down i just do a format-factory reset style from the options and im nice and done in matter of minuits.
I wont even bother to use system restore
Your video highlights very good points and these are pretty much a must for Win 10 users transitioning to the 11. One my machine is a workstation and another one is a laptop. So the workstation is on Win 10 Pro as it can't be upgraded to 11(not that I want to anyway) and my laptop had Win 10 and I decided to upgrade to 11 but didn't like as some of the apps couldn't be installed, so I just reset it. Installed Win 11 so I could learn where important settings are hidden. Interesting that System restore was disabled on my laptop after I reset the laptop. Had to enable it to have a proper restore point. As for the widget, I still kept it on but heavily customized and it is showing just a weather in the taskbar.
Straight forward guide, Thank You.
not being able to move the notifications is the worst
uh you forgot debloating windows? disabling telemetry?
just go back down to windows 10 that shouldve been the whole video tbh
Whats the point of creating a "restore point" when Windows eventually deletes it to make more space for new restore points??.. and yes, you can chose the size of the restore point alocated space but how far do you go with this?...
tech with tim +20 years
A software that is not effected by updated that fixes the start menu - makes it permement
I must be one of the rare ones who actually likes Windows 11 as it is. The only thing that really bugs me is I can't show labels on taskbar icons and never combine them, to give the classic Windows taskbar look. But I actually like the settings menu, the start menu, and I don't feel the urge to install classic shell. And there's also other various UI tweaks that I like. I go back to trying to use the Windows 10 settings menu and I get frustrated.
Windows 11 is fine and you all just want to be mad at something for no reason like drama queens
The way windows 11 makes you sign in with a Microsoft account to use the pc isn't a new thing it was the same for windows 10 too.
Thanks for a great video. I’ve just purchased a brand-new Windows 11 pro laptop, and from day one having set it up, it keeps crashing with the blue screen of death. I cannot figure out why it is doing this but would you say, in your experience, that this would necessitate a cloud reinstall of windows? Do you think that would solve the problem? I gather that these blue screens are normally issues with drivers. Many thanks
Well for me never installing Windows 11 should work for me. I disabled all the requirements Windows 11 needs to install on my pc in my bios.
His barber did him so dirty 💀💀
Without a doubt im keeping my windows 10.
I mean as a macOS and Linux guy, Windows 11 seems like an improvement to me over Windows 10 so far. Definitely agree with your changes though, for the most part.
Windows 11 pro will allow you to install with local account
I had to reinstall windows 11 because something disabled my tpm in bios.
Brilliant tips....Keep up with the good work !!
My new laptop comes with windows 11 so thanks for this video
If you install 'Windows11' on a local account from scratch, without the regular Windows, does this wipe off all the pre-installed programs that come with Windows? I ask cos a lot of vids show the 'Windows Icon pop-up window' after, that only has 'Settings' & one other on that pop-up. Thanks in advance! 👍
the laptop internet login bypass is a command prompt you need to to bring up cmp app then type an end the network should fix app it should fix it then allow you to bypass it but the issue is the Wi-Fi driver if you conect you have to hard boot tch tips ppl made a recent video on the work around
@UFD Tech:
"Windows 11 sucks"?
No it doesn't!
It might suck on unsupported hardware, but it works well on supported systems.
I hate windows 11. I keep having this issue where the searchbar or some windows prompt opens randomly whenever im playing games or even have some other app open. I've tried everything but windows is just such a piece of crap.