I had to install a clean boot of Windows 11 yesterday. All the measures I tried that I saw on KZread didn't work. I got in touch with a Dell employee in California who sent me a link to Microsoft to do a fresh install. I tried copying some photos from an SD card to a hard drive since the XPS 8960 has an SD card reader. Apparently, something corrupted the PC and I was stuck in a "restart loop" and going nowhere. One comment about this fresh install, I had to do those registry hacks from your privacy video all over again and with regedit, to lock in the 23H2 version. One thing with this "fresh install" is that it's not very welcoming to anyone wanting to open a local account. I'm using a local account but apparently I can't edit it, like changing the password for example. They really want people to sign in with a Microsoft account. Is there a registry hack to circumvent this? Keep up the good work Brian.

@ericsbuell

4 ай бұрын

I have a win 11 pro machine fully activated but without any personal accounts on it which I use for benchmarking. Stay away from regedit and consider this solution which worked for me. "USE AN OFFLINE ACCOUNT - How to Install Windows 11 Without Logging into Microsoft - Easy Hack" (copy and paste) It's from Tek Syndicate Good luck mate also without your "account" the number of running processes drop dramatically which is good for my work.

Thank you for a very informative video. I knew about msconfig for startup and boot options but not about performing a clean boot.👍

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

hi Britec awesome help with windows on my pc thanks a lot -i wasnt sure how to apply msconfig ,usually im enabling parked cores lol-but for troubleshooting definately a good piece of info

Great stuff Brian I had forgotten about this msconfig stuff and am going back to see what is happening because my main laptop is steadily becoming slower at boot and between apps. Now just out of interest I used to set the boot section go to advanced and select multiple cores etc as I thought it would speed up the boot etc. So what are your thoughts on that boot section in msconfig??

Are there any other hidden tools in Windows 11? If there are, please make a video on that.

Always learning, re-remembering and re-learning. Thanks. OneLove.

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

You are so welcome. Bless up

I thought it was my Bios, but it turns out it was one Intel driver and an AMD audio driver, I reinstalled them and now my computer starts within 38 seconds, I was worried it was taking forever to post from the bios to Windows, but, it works fine now, Thank you Brian.

@Kdog307

5 ай бұрын

38 seconds dam what you running? win95 on a celeron?

@Paulzpc

5 ай бұрын

@@Kdog307No lol, you would think though right? I think that the bios was corrupt, I pulled the CMOS battery after this and it's loading much faster.

@michaelmcdonald3275

5 ай бұрын

Lol my linux PC with OnlyOffice desktop editors for full MS Excel, Word, etc compatibility boots in 6 seconds.

Cool feature to know about. Thanks :)

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome

Thanks 👍 for another amazing video Britec and it's appreciated. Great to know about this tool if we have problems/issues with Windows.

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@AnthonyManzio

4 ай бұрын

@@Britec09 How do i bring back on config.sys after changes to notify me to restart my pc, I get no prompt to notify me restart. How do i bring that back?

Thank you for sharing this.

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Ummm.... isn't there a system log that you can inspect for any crash errors before you even start to disable services??? I would think that checking the system log would help the process of elimination go much quicker!!! 😬

extremely important!! thank you!

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

Thanks, very useful

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Love your channel. No frills, does what it says on the tin!

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Brian coming with awesome PC tips as usual. Is that enough for the algorithm? 😀

Good diagnostic tool ! :O)

I did one "clean boot" or something like that for one of my mouse display "Blicking" issue with McAfree Web Advisor Tool recently. And it works but it is hell to pay for whole 2-days period of nightmare. But when you know the issue, you will feel a sense of relief.

Lately, I am having trouble connecting a gaming foot pedal to my laptop, it says "device not recognized". Lets see I will try this method to fix it.

@ericsbuell

4 ай бұрын

DONT !

Hello! Unrelated comment from this video but I couldn’t apply the settings of DefenderUI on Windows 11, how to apply the save on DefenderUI? Whenever I go click to scans in DefenderUI it keeps redirecting me to Windows Security page and then asking for IT professionals admin permissions

You are a real professional tech I appreciate your channel very much

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

@markodzo

5 ай бұрын

so true

@bison345

5 ай бұрын

I agree totally

Do you recommend disabling Fastboot?

This reminds me of troubleshooting extensions in Mac OS 7. Disable all of them and re-enable a few at a time until you replicate the problem. A very long process.

always helpfull ta

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that

If you cannot boot at all, how do you get to the settings (MSCONFIG, etc...) to perform a clean boot?

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

Like I said in video, you can't

That's been around since at least WinXP, I think I also used it in Win98

I know about this "trick" long time ago. About 18 years (I think around 2001-2002) 😂 This is exactly method witch I used many years. P.S. sorry about (possibly) bad English.

@tinicum54

4 ай бұрын

I just posted a similar comment.

You forgot klick "Apply" after config !

Beware if you have set up a PIN to log in....

Mini Dump still around?

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

yes

It has been on Windows 10 for years.

I dont like click bait titles, that done tell me whats its about

@Britec09

5 ай бұрын

Maybe KZread is not for you then. Plus this is not clickbait

@tinicum54

4 ай бұрын

Maybe you should stick with your Lose Weight Quick & Gain channel

I haven't seen such uninformed nonsense and potentially destructive operating system guesswork in comments for years. Stop guessing and learn.

brilliant thanks...!