Update finishes, you sign in, and instead of your desktop you get a blue screen asking you to finish setting up your device. Here is what that screen really is, and the two honest ways to stop it for good: the Settings switches, and the one click script.
Every few weeks the same call lands on the IT desk: the update finished, and now the PC is asking me to set it up again. Nothing is broken. Windows is showing its Lets finish setting up your device screen, a suggestion page with only two buttons, Continue and Remind me in 3 days. The reminder is why it never goes away. This guide explains what the screen is selling, how to switch it off in Settings, how the one click script from the video does the same job through the registry, and how to check the result.
Windows has a few suggestions for you, based on how you use your device. Continue to see what is recommended, or ask to be reminded later.
[ Continue ] [ Remind me in 3 days ]
That full-screen message is not an error, not a virus and not a broken update. It is a suggestion screen built into Windows. After an update finishes and you sign in, Windows checks a short list of things it would like you to set up: a Microsoft account, a PIN, OneDrive backup, Microsoft 365, linking your phone and making Edge your default browser. If anything on that list is pending, the screen appears and offers Continue or Remind me in 3 days. Choosing the reminder only postpones it, which is why the popup keeps coming back after every update. In the video, this is exactly the complaint users call the IT desk about, usually within a minute of signing in.
Windows provides official switches for this screen. On Windows 11:
On Windows 10 the same switches live under Settings, System, Notifications and actions, near the top of the page. This route is slow if you look after many PCs, but it is fully supported and easy to reverse.
The video uses a custom automation script made for exactly this job. As the video page describes it, the script applies registry automation in one click: it disables the setup popup and disables the Windows welcome experience, with no manual registry editing. For an IT person who prepares many user PCs, running one file before handing the machine over is much faster than clicking through Settings on every account.
Because the settings behind this screen live per user account, the script route is also the practical one when a PC has several user profiles: Settings clicks have to be repeated for every account, the registry route can be applied the same way every time.
If you want to see what controls this screen, it is one documented value. Open Registry Editor and go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UserProfileEngagement
The value ScoobeSystemSettingEnabled set to 0 tells Windows this user does not want the finish-setting-up screen. The welcome experience screens after updates answer to a second value, SubscribedContent-310093Enabled, set to 0 under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ContentDeliveryManager. Setting these is exactly the state the Settings toggles produce, which is why the script and the manual route end at the same place. Both values are per user, so a new account on the same PC starts with the screen enabled again.
Sign out and sign back in, or restart once. Then open Registry Editor and confirm ScoobeSystemSettingEnabled shows 0, and check that the Settings toggle from Route 1 is unticked. The real test is the next update: Windows should install it and take you straight to your desktop without the blue suggestion screen. If the screen still appears on a different user account of the same PC, that account simply has not had the fix applied yet.
The video shows the one click script doing this whole job in seconds, including how it is run before a PC is handed to a user.
Watch Full VideoNo. It is a built-in Windows suggestion screen that promotes pending setup items like a Microsoft account, a PIN, OneDrive and Microsoft 365. It looks alarming because it takes over the full screen after sign-in, but nothing on the PC is damaged.
No. The popup and the update system are separate. The Settings toggles, the registry value and the script from the video only control the suggestion and welcome screens. Security and feature updates continue to download and install normally.
Because the screen only offers Continue and Remind me in 3 days. The reminder is a postponement, not a refusal. Until the underlying setting is switched off, Windows stays free to show the screen again after the next update.