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I've never found any compelling reason to set up Windows 11 (or 10) with an online account. Things like this just reinforce my decision to stick with a local ac
by scrlk 2y ago
I've never found any compelling reason to set up Windows 11 (or 10) with an online account. Things like this just reinforce my decision to stick with a local account.
- dyauspitr 2y agoIt forced me this last time I set up windows 11
- scrlk 2y agoHit Shift + F10 at the Windows 11 setup screen to open a command prompt, then enter `oobe\bypassnro`. After this, skip connecting to a network and this will allow you to create a local account. It's extremely obnoxious that they've made it this difficult.
- ranger_danger 2y agodidn't work for me on 24H2 /shrug
- tripflag 2y agoit worked for me on win11pro 24h2 just a few days ago; maybe you had a lan cable connected?
- 9991 2y agoThis conversation is surreal.
- ranger_danger 2y agofor you it was probably because it's pro... others have stated pro and above still let you go without an MS account.
- ziddoap 2y agoThere are several bypasses. Don't connect to the internet -> Shift + F10 to bring up CLI -> OOBE\bypassnro The out-of-box experience will restart, and you will have a button to set up with a local account. You can also (or at least could, it's been a bit since I've tried this method) use a banned e-mail account when it asks for your Microsoft account.
- LinuxBender 2y agoAdditionally burning the ISO to Thumb drive with Rufus [1] gives an option to disable Microsoft Accounts and hardware validation upon installation. [1] - https://rufus.ie/en/ https://rufus.ie/en/
- paranoidxprod 2y agoOOBE\bypassnro still works. I've been setting up a bunch of new machines recently (last was yesterday) that I've had to connect to a local domain, so this made it so much easier to just make a local account then domain join the machine.
- squidbeak 2y agoThe only one I ever found was that it made new installations of Windows free with a digital licence associated with your account. I don't know if this is still true of Windows 11.
- blep-arsh 2y agoI ended up making an MS account to store the license info but I just use it once per install to log in/activate then create a "real" local account. Hopefully this still works.