How to Disable “Let’s Finish Setting Up Your Device” Notification on Windows

by Rian

Windows has some handholding tools that would be useful for average users, but unavoidably redundant. One such tool is the post-installation wizard Windows keeps raising attention to with the prompt “Let’s Finish Setting Up Your Device”. Of many things the wizard offers, one of them is to login via Microsoft account. However, as I have said previously, not all features are always needed, and I need a solution to make sure the popup or the prompt wouldn’t disturb me in the future.

Instructions

This is yet another Registry Editor post.

  1. From Registry Editor, navigate* to the following path:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager
  1. Find a DWORD named: SubscribedContent-310093Enabled
  2. Set the value of the DWORD to 1.
  3. Restart the machine.

*Depending on your system language, copy-pasting the path may not work. I have experienced weird glitches where Windows would omit backward slash on Korean systems.

Afterthoughts

The fact that a user cannot dismiss a wizard from GUI is simply off. I cannot think of a reason why Microsoft chose not to include ‘Do not Ask Again’ button. And same goes for the lack of Settings or Control Panel option to disable the wizard. In fact, I suspect the conversion rate of users following through the popup after the initial setup is over. For less skilled users, either they would have followed through the wizard during the setup process or they will ignore it any future warnings since — a common problem in IT. For more advanced users, either they didn’t enable the feature consciously, or would have turned it on after during the checkup. I don’t see why the message is necessary.

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