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Why am I getting this "Let's finish setting up your device" blue screen?
I've got Windows 10 Pro. I'm currently at release 2004 (OS Build 19041.508). Some months back, my machine was really screwed up when the upgrade to Windows 10 came along. I got one of those "Let's finish setting up your device" messages, which I did. At that point, it corrupted all the profiles on my Windows 10 system. I vowed to NEVER again run that!
So, I purchased an SSD drive, replaced my old hard drive, installed Windows 10 Pro on it and that's the way it's been for 4 or 5 months.
But every few days I get this threatening message:
Here's that extremely irritating msg
however, now it gives me the information that it's going to pester me again in 3 days if I don't click the Continue button.
First, I do NOT want to do that, because of how it corrupted all my profiles the last time.
Secondly, I've already done everything that worthless, irritating, continually in my face message talks about.
- I cannot use Windows Hello on this PC, as the motherboard does NOT support it
- I've already linked my phone to my PC
- I already synchronize my history to OneDrive
- I already have set up a Microsoft 365 subscription, which I utilize on this PC
- Like I said previously, I've already got OneDrive connected AND running, on this PC
So, how do I stop this useless message popping up over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, without totally corrupting all of the Windows profiles on my machine? This irritating message is the equivalent of that irritating UAC popup that Windows Vista plagued everyone with.
Hello Rod-F,
Go to Settings > System > Notifications & actions and uncheck Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows option. This should turn off that screen.
If that doesn't works, try the registry based Method 2 mentioned here:
https://www.kapilarya.com/how-to-disable-get-even-more-out-of-windows-screen-windows-10
To help you more on this, here's the video fix:Hope this helps!
Note: Included link in this reply refers to blog post by a trusted Microsoft MVP.
*This reply was updated with additional information.
Hello Rod-F,
Go to Settings > System > Notifications & actions and uncheck Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows option. This should turn off that screen.
If that doesn't works, try the registry based Method 2 mentioned here:
https://www.kapilarya.com/how-to-disable-get-even-more-out-of-windows-screen-windows-10
To help you more on this, here's the video fix:Hope this helps!
Note: Included link in this reply refers to blog post by a trusted Microsoft MVP.
*This reply was updated with additional information.You need to be on W10 version 2004 or newer. The settings to disable these were added in build 18945 from what I see online. So this will not likely work on 1903, 1909, etc.
I am on 20H2 and it works fine on multiple machines, either going through notifications and actions via Settings or just setting the registry key.
How about the MOTHER**bleep**ERS at M$hit DONT **bleep**ING DECIDE FOR US AND LOCK US INTO THE MOTHER **bleep**ING SCREEN.
Have you pieces of **bleep** ever heard of the option: Cancel? Is this concept to complex for microShit to understand and implement? Or is it a itch that you need to scratch to show power, LOOK WHAT WE CAN!! WE CAN LOCK YOU INTO A SCREEN.. **bleep**ING BITCHES
How about you at MicroSHIT LET USE DECIDE WHEN WE PAY THE **bleep**ING MONEY!!!
- Rod-F, Thank you so much for posting this!
I needed help for this same thing but for different reasons. At some point I allowed some of my OneNote notebooks to OneDrive and then I noticed some corruption of my pages, so I tried to migrate back to local computer only. Unfortunately somehow my files had been changed in OneDrive, and I was unable to edit any of the pages on my notebooks once I got them back on my computer only. I decided I can't allow my files to live on OneDrive ever again.
So I need a way to keep that "welcome" screen from returning every 3 days.
I really appreciate your thorough explanation of the problem you were having! - greedy people at Microsoft want you to spend money on there products. the windows setup screen is basically an advertising screen for office 365 and one drive and they think people are to stupid to see though it
- I mainly agree.
I am not sure how greedy they are. Microsoft is like the Roman, or British or US empire.
These people created the civilisation, trade system, currency, or platform that we now enjoy by the sweat of their, or their forebear's brow, and since it is software and not hardware it does not need to be renewed, so lacking anything new to offer, they can either disappear or, their very existence in jeopardy, keep on thinking of ways to encourage us to pay for stuff that we don't want. The most convincing way of perpetuating Pax-Microsoft is by offering "security," in 'the war on viruses.'
By the way, to get to settings you can press "CTRL" plus "i" - Exactly what he said. They conveniently put the two offers for Microsoft products at the very end then it immediately finishes...the first 80% of the popup is to make you think its not about the last 20%. Considering I paid full price for my OS, I think this is a despicable thing todo for a company that is worth billions. Get you **bleep** together Microsoft...and people wonder why we hate on Microsoft.
On Windows 11 I have just found that you have to go to
Settings --> System --> Notifications
then under Notifications from apps and other senders, disable BOTH "Startup App Notifications" AND "Setup (via phone link)". Otherwise it periodically annoys with the same idiotic wizard. It would be amusing if it weren't so annoying that it also insists that you connect to your microsoft account, and tells you that when you press "Next" you agree to all terms and conditions - but if you don't press Next (and provide your login .. which you may or may not remember at that time...) it won't let you go back and use the machine.
- Can you press windows+p on the setting up new laptop?
Sorry, I have a dissenting opinion.
I work in an educational environment.
We have over 200 public and 300+ staff PC's running on WIN10 version 21H2.
The public PC's have a software FREEZE applied to prevent accidental virus's or hard drive erasure.
Or software / malware installs.
"Let's finish setting up your device" pops up regularly, every couple months.
We un-freeze, clear the, Blue Screen, re-freeze and darned if it doesn't return.
Randomly and sporadically on these PC's. No consistent pattern or schedule.
It's Continuous labor, off schedule.
Delaying other projects
I'm sure a bunch of us here are working in education/public service/etc. We use Faronics Deep Freeze at a few of my sites and have used things like Clean Slate, Centurion Guard (with and without hardware keys), and even Steady State back in the XP days.
Deep Freeze works fine with the public Win10 computers but you need to set them correctly with group policies and if you have upwards of 200 PCs then you'd be crazy NOT to be using WSUS along with GPOs tailored to those frozen PCs. Using WSUS, Faronics, and proper GPOs on the frozen machines we haven't had any problems with these post-feature update screens because we are approving the updates from WSUS anyway (as one should in a production environment) and can easily tell when the screens might appear.
It's all the OTHER random machines that are annoying (home, small sites, etc), because these screens would often cause the PC in question to not even load startup programs and some services.
It's gotten less bad with newer versions and if you have that many PCs, you should have an AD infrastructure in place already where this shouldn't be an issue. Check your WSUS and other GPO settings, especially the ones tailored to your frozen machines.- Thanks LastWraith,
We are a smaller Non-Profit.
We have a WSUS server, used for Public & Staff PC's.
But these public PC's aren't in AD, so no group policy.
I'll need to talk to the boss about taking this to the next level, kick it up a notch.
Thanks
- This is a dark pattern. They have hidden the settings to disable marketing in a weakly-travelled settings page. This experience has catalyzed a search for Linux alternatives, considering we have now *paid* over 300CAD each for degenerate, privacy violating software. Microsoft can only gouge Win32 and DirectX for so long before folks have had enough.
HOW ABOUT YOU MOTHER**bleep**ERS DONT ASK ME EVERY MOTHER**bleep**ING TIME.
YOU CAN ASK ME IF YOU WANT TO SUCK MY **bleep**!!!
YOU INVASIVE PIECES OF SHITS!!!WHERE IS THE, I DONT **bleep** CARE, IM NOT A MS EMPLOYEE SO MY HAND DOESNT NEED TO BE HELD EVERY **bleep**N STEP.
You know what.. MS, this is the last time I bought windows.
- **bleep** your greed,
- **bleep** your entitled american mentality that thinks you know better how WE should use OUR products we PAID for,
- **bleep** your stakeholders,- **bleep** your popups..
4 years later of the first post about the "Let's finish setting up your device", one year later of Microsoft creating the most amazing AI and still the same message every few days on my PC also. And I've to say that:
- Yes I've pay every year for the Office 365 suscription, I pay for the Windows Pro suscriptions, I pay for the ChatGPT suscription, I pay for the GitHub suscription, I pay for the Visual Studio, etc etc etc
- Yes backup my files on Onedrive
- Yes I use Edge
- Yes I have and Microsoft 365 suscription
- Yes I allready backup my phone Images
- Yes I've Windows Hello with a PIN, with a fingerprint and face recognition on my Laptop
And after all that time Microsoft CANNOT FIX A BUG FOR 4 YEARS, REALLY!?
