NEW WINOWS 11 INSTALL PROCEDURE

[River Valley Computer]

We just trued to do two new Windows 11 installs this morning and it is TOTALLY different than yesterday.

1. A customer brought a new HP laptop from Amazon in and wanted us to set it up. Went thru the install procedure and came up with a picture story on top with a progression bar on the bottom and takes FOREVER.

2. Installed a new SSD in an desktop. Proceeded to install Windows 11 off of flash drive - same thing.

 

[britechguy]

You are right that this is new-ish, but I've gotten this for weeks now. It has been the same with the installer for "late" 24H2 as well.

 

[River Valley Computer]

You are right that this is new-ish, but I've gotten this for weeks now. It has been the same with the installer for "late" 24H2 as well.

It's so weird that this just crops up today. We do an average of 3 installs a day and this is the first we've had this. So annoying. Does it take for ever to install????

 

[JoelM]

I have gotten this for months. It ususlly takes about 15 min if you have decent internet. Just ignore the progress bar and let it do it's thing. It will automatically reboot when it is done.

 

[thecomputerguy]

This is expected behavior on a W11 Home PC.

 

[JoelM]

This is expected behavior on a W11 Home PC.

Most of my installs the last 6 months have been Pro and they hae done the same behavior.

 

[thecomputerguy]

Most of my installs the last 6 months have been Pro and they hae done the same behavior.

Pro installs run through updates before you can join them to Entra but they do not go through this process. The only way to make this happen is to either:

1.) Have a Windows 11 Home computer.

2.) Have and Windows 11 Pro computer and choose to set it up for personal use.

 

[britechguy]

I've had both the Pro for personal use and Home setups behaving the same way for some time now. Definitely during the 24H2 period.

And while that wait time is "not fast" by any means, how long it takes is directly dependent on speed and stability of the available internet connection. I just had two that took much longer than usual because the internet at the place I was doing them was suboptimal in terms of stability of connection out to cyberspace.

 

[lan101]

I wonder if the newest builds are eliminating the shift F10 command prompt bypass with the start ms-cxh:localonly

I had one a couple weeks ago would not let me shift F10 to bring up a command prompt. I tried a different keyboard too and still wouldn't.

But yesterday during a setup of a dell vostro I could bypass it just fine.

If it's a crappy internet connection for setup I just do the bypass if I can and just turn off updates while I'm working and then let it do its thing at the end of setup.

 

[River Valley Computer]

I wonder if the newest builds are eliminating the shift F10 command prompt bypass with the start ms-cxh:localonly

I had one a couple weeks ago would not let me shift F10 to bring up a command prompt. I tried a different keyboard too and still wouldn't.

But yesterday during a setup of a dell vostro I could bypass it just fine.

If it's a crappy internet connection for setup I just do the bypass if I can and just turn off updates while I'm working and then let it do its thing at the end of setup.

Yes the Shift F10 function is for all intent and purposes not functional anymore.

We have a 1 GB fiber connection so speed should not be a problem.

 

[fincoder]

If I'm setting up a computer, I like to have updates installed before giving a computer back to the customer.

For Win 11 Pro computers I connect to internet as requested during OOBE and let the updates occur during setup (as per pic in the OP). Otherwise I have to do them afterwards anyway so it doesn't bother me. I then use the Domain Join option to create local account (often changed to MS account when the customer comes to pick up if they know it).

For Win 11 Home computers I use the SF10 localonly method to bypass internet connection and add local account (works every time for me except when computer has S Mode), or I do a fresh install with a Rufus-created installer. After it gets to desktop I connect to internet and do all updates. MS account often added when customer comes to pick up.