Installing Windows 11? Don't Let THIS Happen

Installing Windows 11 is supposed to be fairly straightforward, but there are still issues you can run into. Learn about some of them here, and what to do about them.

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[KubiG]

Windows 15 offline installation: You have to disconnect the internet, select North Korea as your country, and Chinese as your language, when prompted for a username type in a 10 lines of custom code, not use mouse during whole installation, flash bios twice during restarts and walk backwards 15 times around your house.

[ArtdesTests]

I can't stress enough how important the "remove other drives" step is

[TetraSky]

Insane how Microsoft is phased out Offline installation for no good reason. Let me install the darn thing without internet access. Exactly for the reason you mentioned, lack of drivers.

[InfernosReaper]

It is interesting to me how much of a big deal Microsoft made about getting people on Windows 11, while also going out of their way to make it as hard as possible to actually do so for a lot of users.

[ClellBiggs]

1:21 This is important. Windows loves to put the Windows install and boot files on different drives for some reason. Always disconnect the drives that you aren't installing Windows to.

[charginginprogresss]

You forgot to tell people to disable drive encryption.
It's automatic, enforced, and assumes you have a ms account.
Meaning that if you have a local account, if your system ever gets locked and asks for a bitlocker key, you will not have it, because without a ms account you simply couldn't have had it in the first place.

[tarcutefan]

If you want to create a local user account without a Microsoft account you still can without command line. When you are asked if you are going to use your computer for work or personal use select work. That will show a text box to insert your email address but if you click the "Sign-in options" link you will get the option to "Domain join instead" which will let you create a local user account whithout ever needing to sign in into a Microsoft account or joining a domain. Thank you for hiding this Microsoft!

Edit: For Windows pro and up.

[brandonengel]

As a domain admin, not being able to set up a local account by default before domain joining a computer is absolutely infuriating. Why do I have to use command line ticks to set up a device just to manage it and not have a Microsoft account? It's ridiculous.

[PapaMike]

I agree with the title: I will definitely not let an installation of Windows 11 happen on my PC.

[infradragon]

the english (world) option only removes the shortcuts to programs in the start menu, the programs are still installed. this is because its a deprecated locale from much older versions of windows, and it does not contain language strings for many of the modern programs included on windows, causing the shortcuts to not be created

[dvdemon]

Here in Germany the local offline account is an absolute necessity! I have to be able to set up my client's new machines without having to enter any private information.

[TTM]

How about... don't install Windows 11

[JasonKjellberg]

Removing extra drives, yes. My 10 install is scattered like that, I'm going to remember this when I fresh install 11...

[dupajasio]

Windows 16 installation steps. 1. login to M$. 2. hold your birth certificate to the camera 3. swipe credit card. All that for safe keeping, you know.

[Arshoon]

"Just install Linux." "But I don't want to use the command line and jump through hoops." Microsoft: "Oh, you want hoops? How's these new hoops?"

[davidozzo]

If you flash the iso with rufus, you can check some option to create a local account for you and skip online requirment, and skip privacy answer, you don't need to click anything in the oobe, in a few minute you have the desktop

[Melissalove]

It's a shame that you can no longer activate your Windows without internet. Now I would like to know if anyone has a good key site?

[Ann_]

ayyyy no I already did everything and nothing happens I'm about to cry

[Draelren]

My main one that I always told people was remove all other drives while installing. I had that happen to me once over a decade ago, had sold my old drive, I had to learn how to rebuild a boot record real quick. Never made the mistake again, and always advocated for people to do this since. Glad you guys brought more awareness to it.

[Tommy_The_Gun]

If Windows 10 won't be usable one day and W11 won't have some kind of reliably working anti-bloatware installer like tiny 11, then I am going SteamOS. I don't believe windows 12 will be any good. This is what happens when there is no competition. Products are not made with costumers in mind, but with corporations in mind.