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I recently reinstalled Windows Home. It's not possible to install a local account any more. Apparently all the loopholes have been closed. It just loops you ba

I recently reinstalled Windows Home. It's not possible to install a local account any more. Apparently all the loopholes have been closed. It just loops you back to the "oops looks like you lost internet access" page. I made a new account - installer<date>@outlook.com with no@thankyou.com as the backup email (which you have to give). Microsoft didn't like that, so it made me go through 10 minutes of captchas (captcas in the OS install - wtf) Then it forced me to give it my birth date, ostensibly to check if I'm of age. Could just ask "are you older than 13" but then you don't get that sweet data. Finally I booted into the OS, and I made a local account. I spent 30 minutes going through the awful menus trying and probably failing to disable all the crap that sends all my data to Microsoft. Some of which can't be disabled in the Home edition. Then I tried to delete my "installer" account. Oops, sorry, we have to "verify" who you are by sending an email to no@thankyou.com. Oh, you don't have that? No worries, just give us your real email address and we'll allow you to log you in after 30 days. Then later I check my real name gmail account and there's a Microsoft email with a login code. I never gave MS this email address. What the hell??

ziddoap 2y ago
>It's not possible to install a local account any more. Apparently all the loopholes have been closed. It just loops you back to the "oops looks like you lost internet access" page. This simply isn't true, I did a computer with Windows 11 Home 3 days ago with local accounts. OOBE\bypassnro still works as expected.
- okasaki 2y ago
  No it doesn't.
  - ziddoap 2y ago
    Yes, it does. I'm not the only one in this thread, the other Windows thread from today, or online that has installed Windows 11 Home in the last week and successfully setup local-only accounts. When dozens of people say it still works and one says it doesn't, chances are the one person did it incorrectly. It works.
    - okasaki 2y ago
      Here's several people saying it doesn't work any more: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-24h2-i-want-setup-without-microsoft/8b9d83e6-1537-4e1f-b894-cb6f510b943e https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window... It tried it, it didn't work. I even disabled wifi in bios.
      - ziddoap 2y ago
        I'm not sure what to tell you. Friday, 3 days ago, I setup a brand new Windows 11 Home computer. I didn't connect to Wi-Fi, I did OOBE\bypassnro, and I created my local account. Nice and simple. There are other people in this very thread who also had the same experience as me. Sorry it didn't work for you. But it still works.
        okasaki 2y ago
        Maybe you used an old image? I downloaded the latest from Microsoft.
        Kerbonut 2y ago
        Try it inside quotes. Try the double-quotes around it, supposedly it still works.
        Aeglaecia 2y ago
        having performed the oobe bypass , it has not been possible on machines by some vendors , while continuing to work on others ... on a side note it seems hypocritical to use anecdotal evidence while denying others the opportunity ...
        ziddoap 2y ago
        >use anecdotal evidence while denying others the opportunity ... They said "It's not possible to install a local account any more.". I'm sure you can understand why my own memories of just recently doing the apparently impossible thing will hold more weight -- to me at least -- than a comment saying the thing I just did is impossible. That might not be super convincing to an outside reader, but for me the alternative is to conclude that I'm having a multi-day hallucination. It'd be hard for me to pretend like the anecdotal evidence is equal in this situation.
consp 2y ago
> Then it forced me to give it my birth date Forgot what it was (not Ms for once) which started discriminating against 124 year old people since you could not enter 01/01/1900 as a birthdate. Usually it's cut at 100 (I always say I'm born on 01/01/1900, there is no legal reason other than the "are you an adult" question)
rnd0 2y ago
>It's not possible to install a local account any more. If you use Rufus to create a usb disk from iso, one of the options is to create a local account automatically during install.
gigel82 2y ago
> Then later I check my real name gmail account and there's a Microsoft email with a login code. I never gave MS this email address. What the hell?? I was with you until that part - everything else seemed plausible and likely true. This one is a lie, I don't know why you felt the need to include it.
- okasaki 2y ago
  I'm not lying - https://i.imgur.com/snOLtqJ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/snOLtqJ.jpeg No idea how they associated it - possibly taken from my chrome login on previous install and then tied it with some combination of licence key, hardware id and IP. I certainly never gave it to MS nor did I request the reset, nor did I log in to gmail on the new install. Sure it could be random but come on, this is the first time I got it and it was just after I installed W11.

ziddoap 2y ago

>It's not possible to install a local account any more. Apparently all the loopholes have been closed. It just loops you back to the "oops looks like you lost internet access" page. This simply isn't true, I did a computer with Windows 11 Home 3 days ago with local accounts. OOBE\bypassnro still works as expected.

okasaki 2y ago
No it doesn't.
- ziddoap 2y ago
  Yes, it does. I'm not the only one in this thread, the other Windows thread from today, or online that has installed Windows 11 Home in the last week and successfully setup local-only accounts. When dozens of people say it still works and one says it doesn't, chances are the one person did it incorrectly. It works.
  - okasaki 2y ago
    Here's several people saying it doesn't work any more: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-24h2-i-want-setup-without-microsoft/8b9d83e6-1537-4e1f-b894-cb6f510b943e https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window... It tried it, it didn't work. I even disabled wifi in bios.
    - ziddoap 2y ago
      I'm not sure what to tell you. Friday, 3 days ago, I setup a brand new Windows 11 Home computer. I didn't connect to Wi-Fi, I did OOBE\bypassnro, and I created my local account. Nice and simple. There are other people in this very thread who also had the same experience as me. Sorry it didn't work for you. But it still works.
      - okasaki 2y ago
        Maybe you used an old image? I downloaded the latest from Microsoft.
        Kerbonut 2y ago
        Try it inside quotes. Try the double-quotes around it, supposedly it still works.
      - Aeglaecia 2y ago
        having performed the oobe bypass , it has not been possible on machines by some vendors , while continuing to work on others ... on a side note it seems hypocritical to use anecdotal evidence while denying others the opportunity ...
        ziddoap 2y ago
        >use anecdotal evidence while denying others the opportunity ... They said "It's not possible to install a local account any more.". I'm sure you can understand why my own memories of just recently doing the apparently impossible thing will hold more weight -- to me at least -- than a comment saying the thing I just did is impossible. That might not be super convincing to an outside reader, but for me the alternative is to conclude that I'm having a multi-day hallucination. It'd be hard for me to pretend like the anecdotal evidence is equal in this situation.

consp 2y ago

> Then it forced me to give it my birth date Forgot what it was (not Ms for once) which started discriminating against 124 year old people since you could not enter 01/01/1900 as a birthdate. Usually it's cut at 100 (I always say I'm born on 01/01/1900, there is no legal reason other than the "are you an adult" question)

rnd0 2y ago

>It's not possible to install a local account any more. If you use Rufus to create a usb disk from iso, one of the options is to create a local account automatically during install.

gigel82 2y ago

> Then later I check my real name gmail account and there's a Microsoft email with a login code. I never gave MS this email address. What the hell?? I was with you until that part - everything else seemed plausible and likely true. This one is a lie, I don't know why you felt the need to include it.

okasaki 2y ago
I'm not lying - https://i.imgur.com/snOLtqJ.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/snOLtqJ.jpeg No idea how they associated it - possibly taken from my chrome login on previous install and then tied it with some combination of licence key, hardware id and IP. I certainly never gave it to MS nor did I request the reset, nor did I log in to gmail on the new install. Sure it could be random but come on, this is the first time I got it and it was just after I installed W11.