At the bottom of the Windows 11 Notifications page sit three plain checkboxes. Between them they control the welcome tour, the finish setup popup and the daily tips, but only one of them stops the popup everyone complains about.
Most people hunting for this fix untick every box they can find and hope. That works, but it leaves a fair question unanswered: which switch does what? Windows groups three suggestion controls together under Notifications, and they are not interchangeable. One runs the after-update welcome tour, one runs the Lets finish setting up your device popup, and one runs the small tips shown while you work. Here is each toggle's real job, so you can turn off exactly the behaviour you dislike and nothing else.
Show the Windows welcome experience after updates and when I sign in to show what's new and suggested. This switch controls the friendly highlight screens that appear after a feature update, the ones that walk you through what changed and suggest trying new features. They are information screens, shown once per update. Turning this off does not hide any warning or security notice; it only skips the guided tour. If the after-update tour annoys you but the setup checklist does not, this is the only toggle you need.
Suggest ways to get the most out of Windows and finish setting up this device. This is the switch behind the Lets finish setting up your device full-screen popup. While it is on, Windows is allowed to interrupt sign-in with its pending-setup checklist: Microsoft account, PIN, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 and similar items. Turning this single toggle off is the supported way to stop that popup. The registry equivalent is the value ScoobeSystemSettingEnabled set to 0, which is what the one click script in the video automates.
Get tips and suggestions when using Windows. This one is not about sign-in screens at all. It controls the small suggestions Windows shows during normal use: tip notifications, suggested apps and occasional recommendations in places like Start and Settings. Many people turn it off together with the other two for a quieter PC, but be clear about the difference: this toggle does not control the setup popup, and turning it off alone will not stop the popup. Its job is the in-session suggestions only.
For most home and office PCs the practical choice is simple. Turn off toggle two to kill the popup. Turn off toggle one as well if you also dislike the after-update tour screens. Leave toggle three to taste: off gives the quietest PC, on occasionally surfaces a genuinely useful tip. None of the three switches affects Windows Update, security warnings, restart reminders or app notifications. They are per user account, so on a shared PC each account has its own set, which is exactly why the script route exists for people who prepare machines for others.
The video takes the faster road: one script that sets the values behind these toggles in a single click.
Watch Full VideoThe middle one: Suggest ways to get the most out of Windows and finish setting up this device. It sits under Settings, System, Notifications, Additional settings in Windows 11. Turning it off stops the full-screen setup checklist from appearing after updates.
Yes, with slightly different wording and location. In Windows 10 they are checkboxes near the top of Settings, System, Notifications and actions. The second one reads Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows.
No. You lose the after-update highlight tour, the setup suggestion screen and in-session tips and suggested content. Updates, security alerts, restart reminders and your apps' own notifications are controlled elsewhere and keep working.