A Handy Guide To Make Windows 11 Less Awful
Putting Most Of The Known Tweaks In One Place
Windows 11 continues to provide a never ending source of frustration for those of us that know how we want our computer set up and are willing to fight to make it so. Microsoft has their own ideas on how your machine should look and seem to try to revert any custom settings we applied to how they think your computer should work with every other update. There are numerous guides on how to tweak your Windows 11 machine to make it look like how you want it to, not how Redmond wants it to, but they’re scattered all over the interwebs.
That’s why you might want to bookmark this guide from TweakTown on how to customize your Windows 11 to make it less annoying. It covers everything from making UAC prompts less common to getting your Start Menu back to how it should be and even speeding up your boot times. The one thing that isn’t covered is getting most of the AI out of Windows 11, but don’t fret as we’ve got you covered for that too!
Of course, if you want to avoid this altogether you could always try out Bazzite.
From sluggish startups to nonstop ad interruptions, Windows 11 can be incredibly frustrating. I felt the same way-until I did what most users never bother with: fine-tuned key settings, changed some defaults, and reined in ads and notifications.
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