How to skip the “Out of Box Experience” when setting up Windows

1. Go to the Command Prompt To start, you need to open the Command Prompt during the OOBE process. Press Shift + F10 on your keyboard to bring up a Command Prompt window. 2. Go to the System32 Folder Type cd\Windows\System32\oobe into the Command Prompt and press Enter. This will take you to the folder …

How to disconnect a device from Azure Active Directory

When setting up a new PC, if you had to use a Microsoft account for the initial setup but want to set it up for local administration and you have exhausted other options for removing the Microsoft account from your PC, you can try the following method:  1. Download PsExec from Microsoft (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/psexec) and extract …

Disable Microsoft Recall

Microsoft Recall is a new AI-powered tool for Windows 11 that allows users to search and retrieve anything they’ve seen or done on their PC, functioning like a personal historian. It logs activities across apps, tracks communications in meetings, and remembers websites visited, all accessible through an explorable timeline interface.  It does so by taking …

How to get computer make and model, RAM, HD information via CLI

Open a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and type one of the commands in bold below: wmic computersystem get model,name,manufacturer,systemtype Output:  Manufacturer  Model                 Name      SystemType Dell Inc.     Latitude 7390 2-in-1  HOUPC401  x64-based PC wmic MEMORYCHIP get BankLabel, DeviceLocator, Capacity Output: BankLabel  Capacity    DeviceLocator BANK 0     8589934592  System Board Memory BANK 1     8589934592  System Board Memory …