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YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…

Or just install Fedora Kinoite and don't look back.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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It's telling that most of the responses to this question center around why the YouTube video creator would want to make a video instead of a simple text description, not what the OP asked: why the user would want to intake the information by way of video. Says a lot about what is broken, incentive-wise, about the modern Internet.

I think it says more about most people not wanting to bother to read. Modern social media has only succeeded by moving away from text, and meeting the masses where they already are. They mostly don't want to read.

Not just social media, at work you're lucky if anyone reads the docs, and blessed if you find someone writing docs. To say nothing about how the substitute for those is looping zoom meetings.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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Another great media player for those who prefer minimalist UI: https://mpv.io/ . Includes yt-dlp integration and a much nicer terminal interface.

And much better keyboard control. It can also do interesting things such as run in 1:1 scaling mode (for example, 4K on a 1080p monitor) and then you can use your mouse to zoom in and out (wheel) and Ctrl+drag to pan around. VLC walked so MPV could run.

> VLC walked so MPV could run.

mpv is a fork of mplayer, which preceded VLC by a year or two.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

#514

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…

If this Hack is necessary to use Windows 11 without registering online, then there will never be a Windows 11 for me.

Re: YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

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post #307

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10 CMD will open Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter. Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter. Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter. Next type “net use…

I guess I'm old and out of touch after only a bit over three decades, because I can't figure out why this would helpful to have as a video in the first place over the text summary you posted here. I could see screenshots maybe being slightly helpful, but to having this sort of thing as a video feels like an extreme inconvenience; I'd much rather see all of it at once and be able to visually scan (or even better, ctrl…

I'm coming here from a follow up post. I would find it difficult to follow a YouTube version of these instructions, but I might resort to searching for it because it is much easier to find this kind of information on YouTube than through a search engine, whose results are hopelessly polluted by LLM spam that has the deficiencies of often being just subtley wrong enough as to void it's usefulness, misrepresenting chronology in a way that makes it difficult to identify the up-to-date methods, and answering questions that are popular and easy to answer over ones that are difficult or unsolved, while failing to identify the difficult problem or its sticking point.
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