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How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Nonononoki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Rufus can bypass all that crap and you get to install on unsupported hardware as well.

[-] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Look for Tiny10 and Tiny11 versions.

[-] b000urns@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

What's that?

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A barebones stripped down version of windows. Basically the smallest install possible to run windows. I use it on my Mac to virtualize windows.

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