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20H2 - Tryng to disable both Welcome to Windows (Edge) and Tips on startup.

One time I image a pc, Tips is turned off but Edge comes up with Welcome to Windows.
The next time I image it, Welcome to Windows is off but Tips pops up. It's driving me insane.

The cmd I have for Tips is:

reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CloudContent" /v DisableSoftLanding /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f (and I've tried 1 and 0)

The cmd I have for Welcome to Windows is: ( found two)

reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\MicrosoftEdge\Main" /v PreventFirstRunPage /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Edge" /v HideFirstRunExperience /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Unless I have my 0 and 1 mixed up, which I think I've tried each, I can't get them both to quit.
Each place I look online says to do something differently...and as I said, it ends up with one or the other.

I'm hoping to stop them both. I have the reg changes in my TS in State Restore. I'm not sure how I could add them in the Preinstall phase. I know the admin will usually not get anything applied because the tasks run 'as' admin but they normally get applied once each user signs on. (An example of this is the Start Menu).

Anyway, hoping someone has a solid solution in 20H2 to stop the Welcome.... and Tips screens.

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I just imaged the pc again. When admin auto-logged on, the Welcome to Windows screen popped up.

When I signed on as myself, the Tips screen popped up.

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Hi, @RickSomeone-1151
Thank you for posting in Microsoft Q&A forum.
I read below article, the Edge welcome page and the default browser prompt are related to the two registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge\FirstRun\LastFirstRunVersionDelivered


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\MicrosoftEdge\Main\IE10TourShown

But the entire Appcontainer registry key structure is not present during the first logon, so that could be the reason we can not disable both Welcome to Windows (Edge) and Tips on startup, we can deploy a script as a logon script with Group Policy or use Configuration Manager, for more details, we may refer to this article:
https://4sysops.com/archives/disable-welcome-to-microsoft-edge-page-and-default-browser-prompt-in-windows-10-1607/
(Third-party link, just for your reference)


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