One of the biggest pain points for Windows 11 users in recent years is Microsoft's insistence to log into an online account to access Windows 11. Seemingly as part of the Windows team's recent initiative to address community feedback, Microsoft may be moving towards a Windows 11 that no longer requi...

One of the biggest pain points for Windows 11 users in recent years is Microsoft’s insistence to log into an online account to access Windows 11. Seemingly as part of the Windows team’s recent initiative to address community feedback, Microsoft may be moving towards a Windows 11 that no longer requires that online account login at the initial setup. While no official plans have been confirmed, Scott Hanselman, a Microsoft Partner Product Manager and VP of Developer Community, recently hinted at the change in a post on X. This announcement comes after Microsoft revealed plans to improve Windows 11 memory management and the overall user experience.

  • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    231·
    10 days ago

    I did win 11 install like this:

    1. Install windows
    2. On login screen create a throwaway Account (mine was somthing like noAccount253@outlook.com)
    3. Decline all the adware
    4. in Settings create new Account
    5. say you don’t know the ms Account of that user
    6. chose to set up user without ms Account
    7. upgrade new user to admin
    8. log in as newly created user
    9. delete user lonked to burner MS Account

    Nice Little Side effect is, that like this, MS gets flooded with dead accounts 😁

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 days 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.

      • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 days 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.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      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.

    • h3ron@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      10 days 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, disabling disk encryption or even preinstalling virtio drivers for qemu-kvm.

      https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

      If you just want to skip the online account there’s always Rufus, which is the easiest way to add that xml to your iso.