unfortunately, switching to another theme and setting advanced settings there that did not carry over to modern, but thank you for the suggestion. I would like to request that the advanced options be added to start 11v2's modern theme. I appreciate your help.
ok, I am going to sound really dumb here, because this is something I obviously used to know how to do and my setup is configured in such a way that I don't seem to have those options any longer. Maybe I forgot how to enable them. I went ahead and closed all my context menus just to show the list of choices I have, and I swear to you, advanced options is not part of it. so i checked the registry to see if I had to enable it somehow, and although i didnt see anything for advanced options,
just a slight annoyance more than anything, no matter how many times I uncheck 'recently installed', it always comes back. Start 11 v2.60 Windows 11 IOT Enterprise 25H2 installed 2/17/26 (but this was happening on the last install too) build 2600.7840 system: Ryzen 5800x3d, Geforce RTX 4070TI S.