Win11 Setup

1. initial setup
   1. When setup to “Connect to wifi” part, press Shift+F10, it will pop up cmd, type

      OOBE\BYPASSNRO

   2. then it reboot, network part shows a skip option, now skip wifi part to create a Local account
   3. choose “continue with limited setup”
   4. create admin account, set QuestionNAnswer
   5. Privacy setting: off for all
2. Once login
3. create standard local user account
   1. Settting > Accounts > Family & other users : other users - Add Account
   2. enter username + pass + QuestionNAnswer
4. (optional) Custom Explorer
   1. Menu > Option: General tab
      • Open Explorer to : This PC
      • (optional) Privacy: uncheck - show frequently used folder in quick access
   2. Menu > Option: View tab
      1. check “display full path in title bar”
      2. uncheck “Hide extension for know file types”
      3. Top part: Apply to All Folders
   3. always show full list of Right-click-menu, run this cmd and restart

      reg add HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32 /ve /d "" /f

5. (optional) Custom account setting
   1. (optional) System:Notifications - OFF; uncheck Welcome/Offer/tip at bottom
   2. (only once on admin) System:Nearby sharing - rename Device Name - Restart
   3. Devices:AutoPlay - off
   4. (only once on admin) Personalize:lock screen (to disable lock screen, and see directly on login screen, use this reg)

      win11_lockScreen_off.reg

      Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
       
      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization]
      "NoLockScreen"=dword:00000001

      or use this one line in cmd

      reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Personalization" /v NoLockScreen /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

   5. Personalize:Start
      • (optional) show recently opened item in Start/Jump/Explorer = off
   6. Personalize:Start:Folders - show [Setting / Explorer / Documents / Network / Personal folder]
   7. Personalize:Taskbar
      • OFF for [widgets, chat]
      • taskbar behaviors [align: left], [show on all display: off]
   8. App:Startup - turn off [one drive]
   9. Accounts:Sign-in options - turn OFF “use my sign-in info to automatically finish setup”
   10. Time n Language: add input method
   11. Privacy n Secuirty:General - turn OFF all
   12. (optional) Privacy n Secuirty:Inking n typing - turn OFF personal dictionary
   13. Privacy n Secuirty:Activity history - uncheck “Store my history”
   14. Privacy n Secuirty:Search permission
       • turn OFF for “cloud content search”
       • (optional) turn OFF search History
       • turn OFF “show search highlight”
   15. (only once in admin) Privacy n Secuirty:Account info - turn OFF
   16. (optional) (only once in admin) Privacy n Secuirty:Contact - turn OFF
6. back to admin account, install all standard softwares

Common App (once install once on admin account)

• 7zip 64bit win: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html
• firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
• chrome: https://www.google.com/intl/en_sg/chrome/
• xnview: https://www.xnview.com/en/xnview/#downloads
• notepad++: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
• krita (image editor): https://krita.org/en/download/krita-desktop/

some quality of life improvement tool for win11

• https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher