Your PC restarts after an update and instead of your desktop you get a blue full screen page asking you to finish setting up your device. Three or four screens later it lets you go.
You did not agree to any of it, and there is no app to uninstall. It is one checkbox, and Microsoft names it word for word.
I went looking for it on this machine before writing. People keep being told to remove an app that is not there.
There is nothing to uninstall
Start here, because most advice on this sends you the wrong way.
⛔ Read on this machine: there is no Tips or Get Started app package installed at all. Across 176 packaged apps, nothing of that name exists.
⭐ But the screen still exists, because it is part of Windows rather than an app sitting on top of it.
⚠️ The protocol that opens it is registered here, with no app present. That is why uninstalling never works, and why people try twice.
⚡ So stop looking in Installed apps. The answer is a notification setting.
The checkbox, in Microsoft's own words
Two of them, and most people only ever find the first.
⚡ Documented by Microsoft on its device setup notifications page, the route is: Start > Settings > System > Notifications.
⭐ Microsoft states the wording exactly, and it sits in Additional settings: "Show the Windows welcome experience after updates and when signed in to show what's new and suggested".
⚠️ The second one is next to it: "Get tips and suggestions when using Windows".
⛔ Untick both. They control different prompts and turning off one leaves the other free to interrupt you.
Why does it come back after some updates?
Worth knowing, because it explains the frustration.
⭐ A feature update can bring the prompt back. A large update rewrites parts of the settings it lives in.
⚡ Check the two boxes again after any update that changes the version number. Not the monthly ones.
⚠️ That is annoying rather than sinister. It is the same reason default apps sometimes reset.
⛔ If it appears every single week, something else is doing it. A managed work machine has its own policy and the checkbox will not hold.
What the screen is actually asking for
Worth knowing before you dismiss it forever.
⚡ Most of it is sign-ups. Backing up to OneDrive, adding a phone, finishing a Microsoft account, trying a subscription.
⭐ One of them is occasionally worth doing. Linking your phone is genuinely useful if you want texts on the PC.
⚠️ None of it is required. Skipping every screen leaves Windows completely functional.
⛔ And Remind me in three days is not a decline. It is a delay. That is why it keeps coming back.
The other prompts people confuse with it
Three, and they live in different places.
⭐ Suggestions inside the Start menu are a separate setting, in Personalization rather than Notifications. The Start menu has its own set of switches.
⚡ Notification banners from apps are per-app and sit further down the same Notifications page.
⚠️ And the lock screen "fun facts" are Windows Spotlight, which is a background choice rather than a notification.
⛔ Turning off one does nothing to the others. They are four separate settings that all feel like the same nuisance.
While you are on that page
The best two minutes on this whole subject.
⚡ Turn off notifications for anything you never act on. Most people permit twenty apps and read three.
⭐ Set Do not disturb hours if a machine wakes and pings overnight.
⚠️ And check what is allowed to show on the lock screen, because notification previews there are visible to anybody walking past.
⛔ A machine that wakes itself to show you things is a separate fault. Something is being allowed to wake it.
When the checkbox is missing
Two cases, honestly.
⭐ A work or school machine can have it removed by policy. If the setting is greyed out or absent, that is why, and it is not yours to change.
⚡ And an older Windows 10 build words it differently, though the same two ideas are on the same Notifications page.
⚠️ If neither box is there at all on a personal machine, look for a third-party tool that has been tidying Windows settings on your behalf.
Status: package list counted here on 28 August 2026, against Microsoft's notifications documentation. ⛔ No setting was changed and no package was installed or removed.
How do I stop the Welcome to Windows screen after updates?
Go to Start, Settings, System, Notifications, and open Additional settings. Untick the box worded "Show the Windows welcome experience after updates and when signed in to show what's new and suggested", and untick "Get tips and suggestions when using Windows" beside it.
Can I uninstall the Get Started app?
There is nothing to uninstall. On the machine checked here no Tips or Get Started package is installed at all, yet the screen still exists, because it is part of Windows rather than a separate app. The setting is in Notifications, not in Installed apps.
Why does the welcome screen come back after I turned it off?
A feature update can reintroduce it, because a large update rewrites parts of the settings it lives in. Check the two boxes again after any update that changes your Windows version number. If it returns weekly on a work machine, a policy is doing it.
Is it safe to skip everything on that screen?
Yes. Almost all of it is sign-ups: OneDrive backup, linking a phone, finishing a Microsoft account, trying a subscription. None of it is required and Windows works normally without any of it. Note that Remind me later is a delay rather than a decline.
The Short Version
- There is no app to uninstall. This machine has no Tips package at all.
- The setting lives in Settings, System, Notifications, Additional settings.
- Untick the Windows welcome experience box and the tips box together.
- A feature update can turn it back on. Recheck after a version change.
- Almost everything on the screen is a sign-up, and none of it is required.
- Remind me later is a delay, not a decline, so it returns.
- Start menu suggestions and lock screen facts are separate settings.
- On a work machine the box may be missing by policy.
Where to Next
Open Settings, System, Notifications and scroll to Additional settings. Both boxes are there together.
Untick them both rather than just the first. They control different prompts and one alone leaves you interrupted.
While you are there, turn off notifications for any app you have never once acted on. That list is longer than you think.
Check the boxes again after a feature update, because a version change can put them back.
And if yours returns even after that, tell me whether the machine is a work one in the comments. Policy is the usual answer and it changes what you can do about it.
Isaac Smith is the founder and editor of PC Glance, a website that covers computers, laptops, and technology. He is a tech enthusiast and a computer geek who loves to share his insights and help his readers make smart choices when buying tech gadgets or laptops. He is always curious and updated about the latest tech trends.