{"id":40787,"date":"2023-08-22T08:11:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=40787"},"modified":"2023-08-28T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T13:37:16","slug":"microsoft-makes-it-harder-to-do-a-clean-install-of-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsoft-makes-it-harder-to-do-a-clean-install-of-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft makes it harder to do a clean install of Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">In the past, it was easy to do a clean install of Windows by wiping the hard drive and starting from scratch. Microsoft is however making it difficult to do this, with the company now preinstalling a variety of apps and services that many users don&#8217;t want or need.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">A clean install of Windows 11 now includes Microsoft Edge, Teams, the Microsoft Solitaire Collection, and a variety of other apps. Microsoft also prompts users to sign in with a Microsoft account during the OOBE (out-of-box experience) process, which can be annoying for users who don&#8217;t want to do this.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">The process once involved wiping the slate clean, installing a Windows operating system free of unnecessary software, and enjoying an original desktop environment. But, the advent of bundled third-party software (&#8220;bloatware&#8221;) and Microsoft&#8217;s own additions have complicated this practice.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">In addition, Microsoft has been adding more and more bloatware to Windows 11 through the Microsoft Store. A clean install of Windows 11 now includes Spotify, Disney+, Prime Video, and Netflix, all of which take up space on the Start menu.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/08\/windows-11-has-made-the-clean-windows-install-an-oxymoron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ArsTechnica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, it was easy to do a clean install of Windows by wiping the hard drive and starting from scratch. Microsoft is however making it difficult to do this, with the company now preinstalling a variety of apps and services that many users don&#8217;t want or need. A clean install of Windows 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-40787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40789,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40787\/revisions\/40789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}