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9 Windows 11 setup moves I always do, and you should too

Windows 11 looks polished out of the box, but the default setup leaves performance, privacy and reliability on the table. I ...
Ars Technica

Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron

I just installed a bunch of Windows 11 instances in a VM for product testing, and the amount of popups and notifications is making me livid. It. Never. Ends. At this point the culture at Microsoft is ...
ExtremeTech

Windows 11 Smart App Control to Require Clean Install of Windows

As part of its recent campaign to make Windows the platform of choice for "hybrid work," Microsoft is rolling out a new security feature. It's called Smart App Control and it's kind of like Windows ...
Ars Technica

Dozens of things you can do to clean up a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 and Edge

Microsoft should be the one to clean up a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 and Edge, NOT the users. If they did just that I bet MANY Win10 users with suitable PC's would be willing to install 11. As ...

Some of the best PowerToys tools for Windows 11 are getting important new features

PowerToys is an open-source set of useful tools for Windows 10 and 11, and two of them, one of our favorites, may be getting ...
HotHardware

Facepalm: Microsoft's Huge Incoming Windows 11 Security Upgrade Requires A Clean Install

Do you remember when Microsoft said Windows 10 is "...the last Windows?" We sure do. It is obvious now that the Redmond software giant has walked back on that claim, as it has since released Windows ...
Redmond Magazine

Windows 11 Configuration Checklist, Part 1: Personalization

From cutting the bloat to setting your preferred Start menu items, here are some of the basics everyone should run through after installing a clean version of Windows. At the moment, I am in the ...