Given that it’s not advertised as heavily as other reset and repair features, I’d love to hear if you’ve used OOBE, and what problems it may or may not have fixed for you. Setting up (or deferring) Microsoft Office.Īnd finally, after some time to complete its work, you have a new(ish) Windows 10 experience.Selecting the account with which to sign in to Windows.
Accepting the Windows 10 License Agreement. The OOBE includes (but is not limited to): I have a Dutch language pack installed, and this was not reset by the OOBE, but rather presented as an alternative language to use for the process. Your “experience” may well be different than mine. The default settings are appropriate: run the OOBE, leaving “Generalize” unchecked (this removes additional customizations made by Windows Setup that we generally don’t need to concern ourselves with), and “ Reboot” as the thing to do when complete.Ĭlick OK, and after a few seconds of preparation, the machine will reboot.Īfter some amount of “Just a moment” delay, the Out Of Box Experience begins. This will run the utility and present a small dialog with actions. To run it, right-click on the Start menu, click on Run, and enter: The OOBE is presented by a program called the System Preparation Tool, or SysPrep. That way, should things turn out other than you want after running the OOBE, you can always restore your machine to the state it was in prior to starting. However, I’m not going to guarantee that something important to you can’t be lost.īack up first. As I said, it’s mostly about configuration and user interface choices. In my experience, running the OOBE on an already set-up system does not uninstall software or erase any of your data. It is, for example, one way to re-visit your initial privacy selections and perhaps make a different choice. 
What it likely does not affect is the initial hardware configuration of the set-up process. My belief is that the OOBE focuses mostly on user interface, settings, and preferences. It can be a way to return your Windows 10 installation to something short of a full reset or reinstall without having to perform an actual reset or reinstall. The OOBE restores a number of things (though not all) to their initial post-set-up state. After backing up, you can run the OOBE using the System Preparation utility: “%WINDIR%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe”. The Windows Out Of Box Experience (OOBE) resets a number of user interface and configuration options, allowing you to make new choices similar to those offered when Windows was first set up.
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