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Win11 College: choose "English (Global)" when installing the machine, and third-party applications will not be pre-installed.

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 18:30:34 10月01日 Update

CTOnews.com August 3 news, source @ ThioJoe recently discovered a trick to install Win11 systems "cleanly" without the help of complex scripts or third-party modification tools.

@ ThioJoe found that during the installation of the Win11 system, after selecting "English (Global)" under "time and currency format", TikTok, Instagram, ESPN, Spotify and other applications will not be pre-installed.

After the user selects this option, an error may jump during OOBE (first boot).

The operating system will take a while to load the initial area selection screen and then throw a typical "Something wrong" error with the OOBEREEGION code.

Users can choose to bypass this problem, please click Skip-you can change your region and format later in the Settings application.

After entering the desktop, the start menu is no longer preloaded with third-party applications. Next you can go to Settings > time and language > language and region, and set your own country and region format.

CTOnews.com note: this approach can only prevent pre-installation of third-party applications, such as Mail & Calendar, Climchamp, Edge, Teams, Cortana, maps, weather and other stock applications will still be pre-installed.