How to Install Windows 11 Without All the Extra Junk

Skillet— Tiny11Builder is a third-party script that can take a Windows installation ISO, which you can get from Microsoft, and strip it of all of the annoying extra features. Install Windows using this tool and you'll have a truly clean installation: no News, no OfficeHub, no annoying GetStarted prompts, and no junk entires in the start menu.

TechSpot—Microsoft rolls out update to fix a bug that was installing Copilot on Windows 11 PCs. In an update on its Windows 11 Release Health page, Microsoft announced that the latest Edge browser update (version 124.0.2478.67) removes the "Microsoft chat provider for Copilot in Windows" package from affected servers. Consequently, users will no longer see the Copilot app in their Installed Apps list following this update.Read Entire Article

TechSpot—New bypass trick makes Windows 11 installation on unsupported systems a breeze. A recently discovered "trick" for bypassing the Windows 11 system requirement check during the OS installation is much more potent than initially thought. The same bypass method works for Windows IoT, which is just your regular Windows experience with the option to take up less storage space on smaller devices.Read Entire Article

Neowin—Microsoft raising Windows 11 24H2 system requirement to block CPUs without SSE4.2 and PopCnt. Microsoft recently added a compatibility block wherein very old unsupported CPUs like Intel's Core 2 Duo, are no longer able to bypass Windows 11 system requirements during version 24H2 setup.