I'm based in the UK. This has been going on for a good while outside the US. Back in mid November last year I struggled to get past the requirement to create an

I'm based in the UK. This has been going on for a good while outside the US. Back in mid November last year I struggled to get past the requirement to create an online account when rebuilding a friend's laptop after a hard disk failure. I scratched my head for a good bit thinking that I'd missed the old pathway that let you skip the online account step, but it turned out that the installer's behaviour had actually been altered. After some more dome scratching I eventually discovering that disabling the built-in wifi module (no wired LAN connection was made) caused the installer to let me create a local account instead. Quite bloody annoying. Footnote: this was an install from a bootable USB stick where I'd "burned" the full Windows 10 ISO image.