Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, November 19, in order to meet the relevant provisions of the Digital Market Law, Microsoft has adjusted its Win11 system for users in the European Economic area (EEA). EU users can uninstall Edge, Bing and other pre-installed applications, and can disable recommendation and advertising content.

Microsoft wrote in the announcement that the area selected during the installation process directly determines whether Windows 11 enables this permission, and later changes to the zone will not be able to obtain these permissions.

What Microsoft did not disclose is that the current Windows 11 development version can unlock this privilege by modifying the registry.

X user Albacore found that users can change the region and gain this permission by modifying the registry, even if they are not in Europe.

CTOnews.com reminder: modifying the registry may affect some functions of the operating system. It is recommended that you do not modify it arbitrarily in these stable systems. Here are the steps to modify the registry:

1. Select start, enter regedit.exe and select Registry Editor from the search results.

two。 Confirm the UAC prompt.

3. Paste the string HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Control Panel\ DeviceRegion into the address bar of the Registry Editor.

4. Locate DeviceRegion Dword on the right and double-click it.

5. Open the Microsoft support page to find your favorite European geolocation code values, such as Germany 94, France 84, Finland 77, etc.

6. Change the value of DeviceRegion Dword to the new geolocation code, for example, 94 (for Germany).

7. Paste the string HKEY_USERS\ .default\ Control Panel\ International\ Geo into the address bar.

8. Double-click Nation and change it to the previously entered value, such as 94 (for Germany).

9. Double-click Name and change it to a country code, such as DE (for Germany).

10. Paste the third and final string into the address bar: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft\ WindowsSelfHost\ Applicability

11. Make sure that the value of EnablePreviewBuilds is not 0.

twelve。 Make sure that the value of BranchName is ReleasePreview.

13. Close the Registry Editor.

14. Enable IntegratedServicesPolicyEnforcement (44353396) and IntegratedServicesPolicyControl (43699941) through ViVeTool.

15. Restart the computer.

If nothing happens, you should be able to remove pre-installed software such as Edge from the Settings > application like other third-party applications after rebooting.

It is worth mentioning that the EEA (European Economic area) includes the following 30 countries:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

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