That is clever. Sure is sad though that you have to trick Microsoft into not requiring bullshit. If they were better at programming you wouldn’t be able to trick them.
Comment on Microsoft May Remove Windows 11 Online Login Requirement
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
I did win 11 install like this:
- Install windows
- On login screen create a throwaway Account (mine was somthing like noAccount253@outlook.com)
- Decline all the adware
- in Settings create new Account
- say you don’t know the ms Account of that user
- chose to set up user without ms Account
- upgrade new user to admin
- log in as newly created user
- delete user lonked to burner MS Account
Nice Little Side effect is, that like this, MS gets flooded with dead accounts 😁
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
h3ron@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
You can just add an xml to your win11 iso. You can do a lot of things with it, like skipping the privacy answers, setting the dark theme (even if you don’t activate windows), preventing the microslop store from preinstalling adware or even preinstalling virtio drivers for qemu-kvm.
schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
If you just want to skip the online account the easiest option is to create the iso with Rufus, which is the easiest way to add that xml to your iso.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
During install, you can opt to login as a business or school user, then just opt to create a local account on that page.
No microsoft account needed.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Shift + F10 and running OOBE\BYPASSNRO still worked for me last month. Depends on what update of Win 11 is on the system (I think up to 24H2 is fine).
Otherwise, I’ve had success doing Shift+F10 and running ipconfig /release to break the network connection at the sign in screen.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
25H2 still supports it. I just did the reset option on a fully updated 25H2 machine and it had no issues.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Thanks for checking, fuckwit.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
That method right there is why I never understood all the people bemoaning they they removed registry entries, needed shift-f10 and stuff like that.
Business -> Domain Join -> Create a local account. Done. And it works in current releases too as I just did it with an iso downloaded from Microsoft two weeks ago.