If you’ve never heard of the Windows Welcome Experience, it’s that annoying window that you see every once in a while when installing updates and booting to the desktop.

Technically, the objective of the Windows Welcome Experience is to display the latest changes to Windows 10, and this is the main reason it turns up after installing updates.

Microsoft believes that with the Welcome Experience users can always be up-to-date with the changes it can make to the OS, so by firing up after deploying the most recent updates is the easiest way to do this.

But simultaneously, there’s without doubt there are users who just want to go directly to the desktop without the welcome window showing up after installing updates. And fortunately, Windows 10 includes dedicated options in this regard.

In Windows 10 May 2019 Update, disabling the Windows Welcome Experience is just a matter of clicks, which is clearly a good thing because users need to be able to do the whole thing easily.

To disable the welcome experience from the Settings app, here are the steps you need to follow:

Windows 10 > Settings > System > Notifications & actions > Notifications

The option that you’re looking for is called:

Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates and occasionally after i sign it to focus on what’s new and suggested

This option is enabled by default, so simply uncheck it in the Settings app and it should no longer appear after installing updates.

In terms of what “occasionally” means, Microsoft doesn’t provide too many information on this, however i personally haven’t seen this welcome experience displayed on my desktop other than after installing feature updates. Windows insiders will also be supplied with the welcome experience after installing new builds, whatever the ring they are part off.

There’s also a second method to disable the welcome experience, and it involves the registry editor in Windows 10. Obviously, you’re have to an administrator account because otherwise you’re blocked from making changes to the registry.

So launch the Registry Editor by clicking the beginning menu > regedit.exe.

Next, you need to visit the following location in the registry editor:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager

What you ought to do is choose the ContentDeliveryManager key after which within the right pane, right-click > New > DWORD (32-bit) value. Name the brand new entry:

SubscribedContent-310093Enabled

Once it’s created, just double-click it and set value 0 to disable the welcome experience. If you want to enable it at a later time, it’s enough to merely remove this registry entry or change its value to 1.

As mentioned, this tutorial was tested on Windows 10 May 2019 Update, however it should be focusing on the prior Windows 10 feature updates as well, such as the October 2018 Update. Everything seems to be OK around the April 2020 Update too, albeit given this update arrives early in the year from the the coming year, Microsoft could implement further alterations in the meantime.

Windows 10 May 2019 Update happens to be rolling to users, so if you’re not running it already, you should check for updates in Windows Update. Microsoft uses a phased rollout, therefore it could take a while until it shows up for download. Meanwhile, you can manually force your device to set up it using the Media Creation Tool, albeit this isn’t recommended if you aren’t a power user.

The debut of Windows 10 May 2019 Update also brings new specifics of the features that Microsoft intends to remove or abandon the development of in the coming months.

Among them there’s a big change that may result in a large amount of frustration in the Windows user community.

Microsoft says it’s pulling support for Wi-Fi networks secured with WEP or TKIP, essentially trying to force the use of more secure networks that depend on more advanced protection levels like WPA2 or WPA3.

“WHY?”

The answer to this question is simply by it may be: both WPA2 and WPA3 are more secure than the old WEP security level, with the latter announced in January 2018. For comparison, WEP officially was a Wi-Fi security standard in 1999, so this year it turns 20.

In the official website of Wi-Fi Alliance:

“Since Wi-Fi networks differ in usage purpose and security needs, WPA3 includes additional capabilities especially for personal and enterprise networks. Users of WPA3-Personal receive increased protections from password guessing attempts, while WPA3-Enterprise users can now make the most of higher grade security protocols for sensitive data networks.”

Therefore the main point here here’s that Microsoft wants to encourage the transition to safer Wi-Fi protections, and giving up on older tech is pretty much the only method to do it.

“WHEN?”

This is a question that’s yet to be answered, but Microsoft only says support for WEP would be pulled “in a future release.”

Most likely, the following Windows 10 feature update would make the change, albeit once more, this is just a guess and never something confirmed by Microsoft.

The next Windows 10 update is due within the fall – as per Microsoft’s schedule, it should be finalized in September after which released to production devices in October or November.

Most likely, such changes would first be tested with help from users signed up for the Windows Insider program. A warning, however, will become obtainable in Windows 10 May 2019 Update.

“HOW?”

Here is the tricky part because Microsoft absolutely needs to make the transition as smooth as you possibly can.

The very first thing you need to know is that once Windows 10 pulls support for WEP, you will no longer be able to connect with Wi-Fi networks by using this security level.

“In a future release, any link with a Wi-Fi network using these old ciphers will be disallowed,” Microsoft says.

Since it must make sure most people are aware of the modification, Microsoft will begin displaying a warning to users that WEP goes away beginning with the Windows 10 May 2019 Update (which is currently rolling out to devices worldwide).

“In this to produce warning message can look when connecting to Wi-Fi networks secured with WEP or TKIP, which aren’t as secure as those using WPA2 or WPA3,” the organization notes.

What exactly should you do, not just to be able to connect with wireless networks, but also to keep your network up and running for the devices?

The only way to go is to switch to WPA2 or WPA3, which Windows 10 continues to aid going forward.

“Wi-Fi routers should be updated to use AES ciphers, available with WPA2 or WPA3,” Microsoft briefly explains.

WEP has long been considered an insecure standard, so it’s definitely the best thing that Microsoft is forcing the transition to WPA2 and WPA3. However, exactly what the software giant must be sure of is that this change happens as smoothly as you possibly can, because otherwise, neglecting to connect with an unsupported Wi-Fi network can eventually backfire, with frustrated users blaming Windows, and not the updated security policies.