Windows 11 Settings You Should Change NOW!

[@LeilaGharani]

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[@hassangammudi3212]

If I signed in with local account will my win11 login or I have to create password

[@BerserkPublishing]

@@hassangammudi3212 You can use a blank password. Personally, I create a password and then create a 4 character pin via Windows Hello. Pins are terrific as it can be simple, but also very powerful. For instance, in the newest Chrome, if you use Chrome, you can encrypt your saved passwords and use the Windows Hello Pin to access your encrypted passwords. Most people don't realize zero passwords can leave you vulnerable should a hacker get remote access via a link or a compromised website. Using Windows Hello with a password and pin can help you lock down vital areas of your system so that even if someone gets access to your desktop, they still can't get to your most critical data.

[@henriktiren2674]

👍👍👍👍👍Thanks! But as parental control I use time boss app.

[@JCRoberts]

I'm in Desktop support myself and always looking for something I overlooked or forgot. I just wanted to say I believe you did an incredible job on this. Thank you for putting it out there.

[@archangelmusic13]

instead of doing all this just use classic shell and it will make your windows 11 look like windoes xp or windows 7.

[@PlanetC64]

Thanks! I just bought a new laptop and this is GOLD. How much of my sanity have you just saved not having to see all of those ads???!!! Nice coffee mug too 😊

[@kevinlancelotta6046]

Seemingly simple fixes but incredibly useful. Most of these changes helped eliminated the small nuisances I have lived with on my Windows 10 and 11 machines for the last 5+ years. The fact that this was just ~6 minutes long made it easy to engage in this video and get a ton of helpful information in a short amount of time. Just subscribed to this channel. Thanks Leila!

[@LeilaGharani]

Happy to have you aboard, Kevin!

[@lutherthompson8547]

​@@LeilaGharani could you tell me how to get my hp laptop screen moved back to the left on windows 11,, as a 64 year old I'm illiterate on this stuff lol

[@tomgarrett3480]

By the way, Microsoft Family Safety does not work with a local account, so you should use other parental control apps for your kids (K9, Time Boss, Net Nanny...)

[@juliaa7908]

Wonderful! Concise, clear and slow enough for newbies to understand what to do. Thank you a lot for the video!

[@daverhoden445]

This was surprisingly helpful. Usually these types of videos suggest things that are very obvious or things that would cause more problems than they solve. Your tips are clear, direct, and most of all, useful. Plus bonus points for not having a long boring intro but actually getting to the point.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you found it helpful, Dave!

[@rohansampat1995]

bruh she suggested turning off the ability to install applications. How does that not cause more problems than it solves. If you need that feature on, get a chromebook.

[@cyphi1]

why is it surprising? she makes amazingly detailed videos!!

[@baba.mkhulu]

@@rohansampat1995 nope...you misheard/misread that completely. go back & check. sigh...

[@rohansampat1995]

@@baba.mkhulu I did, and the fact that she even brought up doing that is against what pcs stand for.

[@LovedbyGod73]

Danke!

[@LeilaGharani]

Bitteschön! Danke auch 😊

[@cenevspeed_CARS]

Legendary video! I have 1 more tip other than all the useful ones you mentioned. Tip: Apps that were installed from the Microsoft Store run in the background unnecessarily. You can modify those apps by going into Settings > Apps > Choose The App > Modify > Turn off running in background. This has helped me a lot!!

[@moonraker2114]

Thank you so much for this too!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks for the tip!

[@johnphilippatos]

Yeah, just like the good old msconfig. Thanks and Happy New Year.

[@Aswin_S067]

@@LeilaGharani you need to pin this comment

[@patrickpomeroy2772]

Thanks

[@MrWilliamCaraballo]

Thanks!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you!

[@HyperionTitanus]

Very well made video, concise and short, all the info you need, without fluff. Much appreciated.

[@rohansampat1995]

not well made lol

[@hunter111uk]

Definitely one of the best Windows 11 Tutorials I've seen, clearly demonstrated and spoken at a reasonable speed, rather than gabbled at 100 mph like many others, even we Silver Surfers can understand. Many Thanks! 👏👏

[@judiperkins7136]

Very helpful. I don't generally subscribe to stuff, but I just got a new computer with windows 11 and there's all sorts of of annoying stuff very different from what I'm used to. Very easy to follow and provided me with good general familiarity of the settings, so very different from older computers. Windows has a lot of "improvements" that are most definitely NOT improvements - and some that are, but just require the learning and changing. Big brother is becoming increasingly invasive however, under the illusion of "this will help you."

[@GuysPestSolutions]

Very nicely done video. I enjoyed watching it. Great job. Be well Leila.

[@lindagiovannazambanini6218]

This was such useful and WELL PRESENTED information! No excess verbiage - direct, simple, and to the point! I hate it when these self help presenters rattle on and on before getting to the point. You're an excellent teacher! If you're not a professor, you should be! Thank you!

[@tooter5250]

Great job. Very different from other win11 guides, with an emphasis on privacy and reducing some of the autiomatic clutter that comes with a new OS. Thus, a nice complementary guide. Thanks.

[@ActivateLA]

Thank You! New to your channel and you have a new subscriber here 👍👍

[@LeilaGharani]

Awesome, thank you!

[@thatsrich944]

You can also uninstall many of the bloatware apps that Microsoft either installed automatically or added links to install, to free up space, declutter your menus and improve overall performance a little bit. Right-clicking the icon should give an option to uninstall rather than tracking each folder down. There are also little tweaks that allow you to fix the annoying spaced out icons and to fix the right-click menu debacle introduced in Win 11. There are many guides on YT for these.

[@aileshdesai]

I Watched many videos of yours and I (a senior citizen) learned a lot and applied suggestions. you are a genius baby. God has blessed you. Wish you all the best. Thank you

[@diagnosticgreenllc6180]

Excellent video. This saved me a ton of time as I was trying to sort through all of these settings myself. You pointed out a number that I had missed. Thanks!

[@LeilaGharani]

Great to hear!

[@kirkdillon1733]

I never followed so much advice from any source before. I had to pause dozens of times to make all of the GREAT suggestions. Thanx a lot

[@abijahmaniaco]

Awesome video, Leila! One of the most annoying things I'm grappling with is all of the save-to-OneDrive defaults. I want almost everything saved locally and I certainly don’t want OneDrive as my default save location every time that I do anything.

[@myidisinhim559]

Totally agree. I bet there are many people who don't even know OneDrive is saving their stuff to the cloud.

[@riskybiscuit5594]

I got my laptop 4 months ago, I started to notice excessive personalization, suggestions, and advertising. I started exploring and changed ALL these settings you're reccomending, Im glad I watched this to double check my preferences are justified and reccomended by another user.

[@uxoriousNO]

Appreciate the friendly but extremely professional style. Also you get right to it and do not waste anyone's time. Liked and Subscribed

[@LeilaGharani]

That's great to hear, Colin. Glad to have you aboard!

[@SirGregory]

Perfect. Thanks.

[@cyclerider18]

Excellent video. Thank you so much setting up my new windows 11 computer.

[@ZaHrius]

Concise, clear and informative - Great video thank you!

[@florencioiiiubas1044]

Excellent review!

[@WuteverCanada]

Great Tips. I am very savvy with Windows. Came as far back as IBM Punch Cards & Olivetti Computers running MSDos at AT&T Canada in 1985, so I've had every Windows OS since the beginning. Now retired & back into the music biz working on my two Windows 11 Laptops doing digital music recordings here in my studio. Just wanted to say that I enjoyed your video and sending it all my friends. You've saved me much of what I wanted to mention to everyone. I'll say this Leila, "You're One Smart Computer Cookie". I'm now watching your other videos so that I can brush up on some apps I now need in my music biz. Thank you.

[@JoeyRam.]

Great to see that you have clear mind and not cutting when talking to the camera.

[@sallyride6577]

Thank you! Your directions were easy to follow and I feel better about my new Windows !

[@williamnienke1680]

Great suggestions , very informative, well put together. thank you for all you do!

[@LeilaGharani]

I appreciate that, William!

[@bullchief8777]

Really appreciate your help 😊

[@CoolTI-Daniel]

As a senior tech... I have to thank you for this video. It's just such perfect information, provided with such simplicity and clarity. Thanks.

[@UNREDACTEDTRUTH]

Thank you!

[@hogne]

Thank you for showing us those settings and how to turn them off! I had already googled some of them, because they were SO annoying, but now I got even more turned off. I hate it when an OS or app is trying to "help" me. Once again: Thanks!

[@LeilaGharani]

Happy to help!

[@mensahemmanuel3814]

wow what an educative tutorial. as a deaf teacher it has help me understand everything you have explained because l read with my eyes and understand with my mind and heart rather than voice chatting without capitation. Thanks a lot. for more tutorial kindly share with me via youtube because l have subscribed it.

[@ac9nh112]

Brilliant video. Really helpful. Makes sense of everything that Microsoft thinks you want or want to do but actually don't! Just need to get Firefox on the system and I'm done!

[@samirpetkar9258]

Thank you for sharing this useful settings with us 🙏👍

[@LeilaGharani]

My pleasure 😊

[@chh8860]

Based upon an earlier video, I have not made the switch to W-11 ... leaving it to later in the year (maybe). Nonetheless, I enjoyed listening to Leila as to how she thinks about her settings ... very helpful ... and made me realize I need to be more knowledgeable about my own settings. I realize W-10 is on its way out the door, but a similar video for W-10 would be helpful too. But as always ... thank you ... thank you .... thank you ... always a wealth of information.

[@LeilaGharani]

Many thanks for the suggestion! I'll add it to our list.

[@animax4047]

You made the best decision ever, you definitely saved a lot of time that would be wasted fixing things that MS should already have fixed before releasing the Win 11. For instance my Taskbar keeps freezing even after trying all the available options to fix it. It just keeps coming back( a simple reboot fixes it but it's an extra reboot I don't want to do).

[@Robert8455]

I always enjoy your tips and tricks. Looks like Win 10 is end of the road for me as I will be switching to Linux.

[@simonschon9058]

Good choice, Welcome!

[@douglaspearson4853]

Hi I enjoyed you video. I have been building and reapairing Computers since Dos and 8088 days (1970s). I am new to Winows 11. So this was great help. I just bought a new PC in August and it came with Win 11. I like my Linux Mint better I think (on another machine). I did bulid IBM mainframes then I moved up to Testing them. I would like to say I really enjoyed my visit to Osterriech. I stayed at the Palace Guest House Hotel in Wien. Your pastries were awsome. It was beautiful and rich in history. My memories will last forever. Hope I did not bore you. My mothers grandparents were from leipzig Germany so I wanted to see it and the chance to go to Germany & Austria came and I took it. Thank you again

[@alanrain8408]

Another useful video, well-presented and professional, without any of the condescending 'this is a cool thing to do' crap.

[@henriktiren2674]

Yes, very helpful video! Thanks! But, if your child has local account in Windows 11 - internal parental control does not work... Why? Should I use others parental controls Time Boss, Net Nanny or others?

[@kanao2007]

Leila, many many thanks. You are the best

[@keznebula333]

Thank you for this very helpful video! Please tell me how to "move" the toolbar so it is vertical on the left side of my horizontal screen? It is annoying and not logical to waste my important horizontal desktop space with the toolbar. It is important that I can access the toolbar, without it taking up prime desktop space.

[@keithparker1346]

​@@DutchXfanthis is progress in Microsoft eyes that users have LESS choice of where to put the taskbar...such backward thinking

[@5954ldydi]

Thank you! You just saved me a lot of time trying to shut off and change these features and settings that have been annoying me! Awesome video! Thanks again. Have a wonderful day. 😉

[@cwjr1968]

Great suggestions. Thank you. On a separate note, I’ve not been able to use power query in Excel (Microsoft 365) since upgrading to Windows 11. Microsoft customer service has advised to wait for the next available windows update. Have you had this difficulty? Suggestions? Thank you for what you do! You have proven to be a great resource for me.

[@LeilaGharani]

Sorry about that! No, I use it all the time on Win 11. Never had an issue since I upgraded.

[@brucebradley5877]

There is the number problem with Microsoft Costumer Service rather than supporting through actual addressing your issue, they often say "sorry you are experiencing this problem, we are aware of this problem and will be addressing it in future updates." Or they take the lazy way out and suggest recovery options to reinstall windows... Thank you Ms. Gharani for sharing your expertise.

[@wellscoservices7066]

@@brucebradley5877 That has certainly been my experience. Great products... horrible customer service!

[@yk-mp7bk]

Thankyou soo much for the video, It is really useful...❤

[@rchin75]

Thanks, good suggestions. However, MS should have made all these options opt-in instead of opt-out. Well I will leave all that to the system admins at work and just use Linux at home. ;)

[@jonganzer7478]

Clear, concise, useful, no wasted frames. (and, of course, nice to look at. :o) Thanks for putting this together, I made a host of changes as I watched.

[@lulusaeed4749]

It is helpful for me, thanks so much.

[@xxwoman]

For Personalization, that Personalization is no longer under Settings but I believe what works is right-clicking that area by the Power icon and it'll take you to those settings. Seems quite a bit has changed. (Was gifted a Win11 laptop today!)

[@gamerone6141]

Brilliant video!🙂

[@SuperKawaiiChannel]

I couldn't really focus, I got lost in your voice, honestly I would love to hear you reading a book, there is something in your voice that gives me goosebumps!

[@techster69]

She definitely has an ASMR voice or something like that 😅

[@imjennrenee]

She does have an amazing voice. She needs an ASMR channel.

[@chriss7393]

Super kawaii.. You prob need to get out more..

[@yooanto9465]

She is pregnant because if your comment.

[@yoyotheplayer9403]

Get a life

[@Lorentari]

Why in the world would you limit yourself to only Microsoft store apps..?

[@StevenKroeger]

We should get rid of Winblows altogether

[@fishmongerama]

I agree 100%

[@philipnaughton329]

No one makes you install it

[@keithparker1346]

​@@philipnaughton329it's pretty much ubiquitous on PCs but doesn't mean it's the best option

[@amahunter]

im regreting the instalation of win11 every day win10 was perfect idont like win11 its not user friendly its just annoying

[@HunTiXs]

Skill issue

[@Dwaxxx]

I've seen a lot of people complain that Windows 11 feels too intuitive but Windows 11 being less user friendly than windows 10 is definitely something new I've seen, just learn how to use a computer MF..... If you think windows 11 is hard then you're going to have a tough time learning anything.

[@CruisesMadeEasy]

​@@Dwaxxx They can just virtual box Windows 10

[@DeepSingh-c2z]

When people see something new - omg this new save me it’s killing me it’s dangerous to the humanity

[@Evangelionism]

​@@HunTiXsurmum

[@mrhassanyoussef10]

Thanks for your good job❤❤

[@catatonicgalaxy1471]

you shouldn't download win 11 at all yet.

[@chuckinhouston9952]

Windows 11 is a smoking pile of crap.

[@duk1436]

@@chuckinhouston9952nah i love it

[@waheedahmed1987]

Thanks Leila Gharani, Very usefull your All Videos❤

[@LeilaGharani]

My pleasure 😊

[@Hiro_Blazeheart]

The ideal solution would be to not install Windows at all or stay on Windows 10 or even better switch back to Windows. 7. Windows 11 is an Operating system that aims to steal your privacy and sell your user data. It is a lot more terrible than Windows 10 ever was. Personally, I would recommend stopping using Windows at all and starting using Linux. I myself have stopped using Windows all together and Switch to Linux. I enjoy using Linux much more now that I don't feel like someone is watching everything I do. and don't worry about the Operating system, want to know everything there is to know about me. Windows is no longer just an operating system, it is a full on Scam to exploit people who have become so accustomed to their ways that they can't see it. I have been using Windows all my life since MS-DOS and i'm Done. I don't take kindly to companies trying to exploit me. And Windows 10 was already the edge of what I liked and Windows 11 is just over the edge and we don't care, we take everything and control everything you can and can't do on Your Operating system. I beg you, if you're gonna stay on Windows, stay, on Windows 10 or one of the older versions. Or do like me say Fuck Microsoft and switch to Linux. don’t let them control your life when you have the Freedom to choose.

[@neil7813]

The first thing you should change is to change back to 10.

[@elephant_beard227]

F🤬🤬k no.

[@hbc511]

Why ?

[@elephant_beard227]

@@hbc51110 is near its end with Windows 11 out, and Windows 12 coming pretty soon, so just upgrade. It's worth the spyware.

[@jennbee6758]

I hated 10!

[@tomc642]

Not 10, change back to Windows 7. Windows 10 is nothing but bloatware.

[@robertallen6710]

HUGE help...ty!

[@jamesclark6142]

This was very helpful. Thank you!

[@jmg2183]

Thank you! Excellent segment.

[@Franita01]

thanx, great vid. extremely useful

[@peterdean8531]

Very useful and very well explained..Thank you.

[@nimakya]

Love this video from🇮🇷

[@jackturtle131]

Thank you so much Regards from Australia

[@jojo2031]

Thank you for that ! Just got a new laptop and it helped me alots :)

[@LeeG777G]

will check out more of your you videos - you are succinct and clear.

[@bapbiswas]

Thanks Leila excellent helpful video

[@EricSnissaert]

Thanks Leila, Good info!

[@lexinator111]

I like the way you explain things

[@javahne4007]

Thanks, Leila. Has been great and very useful

[@SkullGhosts-n3q]

Appreciated, video contains very informative contents

[@mikedesimone1783]

Hello Leila, very helpful, thank you. 🥰

[@teddyrwilliam1428]

Thank you will be doing most today it is in my favourites list

[@vishalarora6938]

Hey Leila you explain really well . And you have a very chisseled Jawline🔥

[@thimax01]

Awesome, Really appreciated!! Thanks. Love from Sri Lanka.

[@carlosmontoya1706]

Excellent video, thank you Leila.

[@jjivaldi16]

Thank you very useful .. thanks for sharing

[@sonithkumar5832]

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing this

[@TaufiqKhan4765]

Thank you So Much Leila💖

[@BringerOfZZa]

Words are cheap. Very good! Thank you

[@its_LuisFuego]

very helpful TY!

[@MrTechnology83]

Thank you for the information…… have a great week 🇺🇸

[@MichaelDBauer]

Perfect video. Lots of information easily explained without a lot of dross. Thanks.

[@mazdakkaidzadeh5214]

Awesome video, Thank you

[@abangwout232]

Great video helped me alot! thank you

[@seerwanfello]

thanks for your efforts

[@tpham4607]

Thank you for your information.

[@theacme1000]

This was great! I thought it would be a waste of time but I ended up subscribing. Thank you.

[@woody1980]

so sweet ! love listening to her !

[@aptroed]

Nice presentation!

[@ellenl1154]

This is the best tutorial I've seen. Thank you for the step by step instructions!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

[@novu7609]

Thanks for video,this video help me.

[@cyphi1]

Thanks Leila!! I should've watched this 6 months ago!!

[@jpt757]

Thank you for this valuable info video, I am now one of your subscribers.

[@GnarlsGnarlington]

You are a very good teacher.

[@eddiex8542]

amazing video, thank you for sharing.