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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I had Debian Ubuntu and Void use little over 1 GB in the past

For windows it's insanely low RAM usage. For me 3-3.5 GB RAM used on idle was the windows standard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've never seen windows idle that much from a clean install.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Every time before I found out about LTSB and these scripts my idle usage wasn't lower than 3-3.6gb. I went through all those running processes and said myself that there has to be better way. (And boy how I was pissed off when I found out about the telemetry..) It led me to Linux, but sometimes I need to use Windows so I have dual-boot with LTSB.