Windows 11 Settings You Should Change NOW!

Navigate through Windows 11 like a pro with our guide on essential settings to tweak for a smoother, more private, and clutter-free experience. Learn which default settings you might want to change immediately to enhance both privacy and usability in Windows 11.

🖥️ What You'll Learn:
▪️ Clear the Clutter: Simplify your Start menu and jump list by turning off certain options in the Personalization settings.
▪️ Stop Annoying Notifications: Disable Windows tips and suggestions to avoid unnecessary distractions.
▪️ Block Ads: Learn how to remove promoted apps and suggested content across various parts of Windows 11.
▪️ Enhance Privacy: Adjust settings in the Privacy and Security section to control what data you share with Windows.
▪️ Control App Permissions: Fine-tune which apps have access to your location, camera, microphone, and more for added security.
▪️ Safe App Installation: Set preferences for app installations to protect your PC from unwanted or unsafe applications.
▪️ Manage Startup Apps: Optimize your system's boot time by managing startup programs effectively.
▪️ Switch to a Local Account: If you prefer more privacy, learn how to switch from a Microsoft account to a local account.

00:00 Change These Windows 11 Settings Right Away
00:26 Recommended Items
01:13 Notifications and Ads
01:52 Privacy
02:53 App Permissions
03:49 Block Apps
04:24 Startup Apps
05:06 Sign In With Local Account
06:00 Wrap Up

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[JCRoberts]

I'm in Desktop support myself and always looking for something I overlooked or forgot. I just wanted to say I believe you did an incredible job on this. Thank you for putting it out there.

[cenevspeed]

Legendary video! I have 1 more tip other than all the useful ones you mentioned.
Tip: Apps that were installed from the Microsoft Store run in the background unnecessarily. You can modify those apps by going into Settings > Apps > Choose The App > Modify > Turn off running in background. This has helped me a lot!!

[daverhoden]

This was surprisingly helpful. Usually these types of videos suggest things that are very obvious or things that would cause more problems than they solve. Your tips are clear, direct, and most of all, useful. Plus bonus points for not having a long boring intro but actually getting to the point.

[HyperionTitanus]

Very well made video, concise and short, all the info you need, without fluff.
Much appreciated.

[juliaa]

Wonderful!
Concise, clear and slow enough for newbies to understand what to do.
Thank you a lot for the video!

[kevinlancelotta]

Seemingly simple fixes but incredibly useful. Most of these changes helped eliminated the small nuisances I have lived with on my Windows 10 and 11 machines for the last 5+ years. The fact that this was just ~6 minutes long made it easy to engage in this video and get a ton of helpful information in a short amount of time. Just subscribed to this channel. Thanks Leila!

[lindagiovannazambanini]

This was such useful and WELL PRESENTED information! No excess verbiage - direct, simple, and to the point! I hate it when these self help presenters rattle on and on before getting to the point. You're an excellent teacher! If you're not a professor, you should be! Thank you!

[diagnosticgreenllc]

Excellent video. This saved me a ton of time as I was trying to sort through all of these settings myself. You pointed out a number that I had missed. Thanks!

[hunteruk]

Definitely one of the best Windows 11 Tutorials I've seen, clearly demonstrated and spoken at a reasonable speed, rather than gabbled at 100 mph like many others, even we Silver Surfers can understand. Many Thanks! 👏👏

[reefhugger]

Thank you so much. Instructions are perfectly clear, easy to follow and understand. There were so many more catagories to inspect than I had anticipated.

[wayneedmondson]

Thanks Leila. So many settings! Hard to know which ones to modify. Thanks for the advice. Thumbs up!!

[thatsrich]

You can also uninstall many of the bloatware apps that Microsoft either installed automatically or added links to install, to free up space, declutter your menus and improve overall performance a little bit. Right-clicking the icon should give an option to uninstall rather than tracking each folder down. There are also little tweaks that allow you to fix the annoying spaced out icons and to fix the right-click menu debacle introduced in Win 11. There are many guides on YT for these.

[WuteverCanada]

Great Tips. I am very savvy with Windows. Came as far back as IBM Punch Cards & Olivetti Computers running MSDos at AT&T Canada in 1985, so I've had every Windows OS since the beginning. Now retired & back into the music biz working on my two Windows 11 Laptops doing digital music recordings here in my studio. Just wanted to say that I enjoyed your video and sending it all my friends. You've saved me much of what I wanted to mention to everyone. I'll say this Leila, "You're One Smart Computer Cookie". I'm now watching your other videos so that I can brush up on some apps I now need in my music biz. Thank you.

[kirkaur]

Love this! Thank you. I went through them all with you. Thank you again.

[ZaHrius]

Concise, clear and informative - Great video thank you!

[cyclerider]

Excellent video. Thank you so much setting up my new windows 11 computer.

[kirkdillon]

I never followed so much advice from any source before. I had to pause dozens of times to make all of the GREAT suggestions. Thanx a lot

[irwineinstein]

So glad I came across your channel. This is great stuff!! Just got my new Windows 11 machine. Thank you Leila

[judiperkins]

Very helpful. I don't generally subscribe to stuff, but I just got a new computer with windows 11 and there's all sorts of of annoying stuff very different from what I'm used to. Very easy to follow and provided me with good general familiarity of the settings, so very different from older computers. Windows has a lot of "improvements" that are most definitely NOT improvements - and some that are, but just require the learning and changing. Big brother is becoming increasingly invasive however, under the illusion of "this will help you."

[abijahmaniaco]

Awesome video, Leila! One of the most annoying things I'm grappling with is all of the save-to-OneDrive defaults. I want almost everything saved locally and I certainly don’t want OneDrive as my default save location every time that I do anything.