Basically, install Windows as you normally would, but when asked for Time and Currency format, select English (World) instead of your country.

Then let the installer do its thing. Eventually, you will see a window with an ice cream cone on the floor with the words “Something went wrong” and the error message “OOBEREGION.” This cryptic message means that the “out of box experience” (OOBE) didn’t launch because it didn’t know which region to launch.

Click Skip, though, and Windows will install just fine. You won’t be prompted to buy Microsoft 365, you won’t be prompted to pay for a OneDrive subscription, and your Start menu won’t be cluttered with apps.

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    9 months ago

    Yeah windows 11 is laying ground work for all of this.

    It seems like they have decided that plebs and OEMs paying licenses was not a good business model.

    Really makes you wonder where the entire business world is heading. It seems every company starting to prefer this route.