Your Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account

Re:Your Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a onlin... by voidfunc on Sunday January 15, 2023 @05:59PM (#34394587)

Windows 11 latest installer doesn't even present the option to use a local account. However, the mechanism to bypass this is to enter in a fake Microsoft Login ID and then wait for it to fail, then select something like "Other Options" at the dialog that comes up and then there's an option to use a local account.

I think you can also install without internet and you'll get the local account option too, but I have not tried it yet.

Super annoying. I ran into this last week while reinstalling Windows on a dead NVMe drive.

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Re:Your Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a onlin... by mjevans on Sunday January 15, 2023 @06:10PM (#34394687)

Did they take away the ability to create a local account if you setup without Internet access?

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Re:Your Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a onlin... by Raymonf on Sunday January 15, 2023 @06:56PM (#34395026)

Yes, unless you run OOBE\BypassNRO.cmd from cmd to bypass the network connection step, since there's no "skip" button anymore.

Even this is somewhat broken. If you run this after connecting to the Internet then it doesn't do anything and still forces you to use a Microsoft account (unless you somehow get it to throw you back to that page).

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Re:Your Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a onlin... by Nomentatus on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:41PM (#34405850)

Indeed. Took me a while to find route around. These issues are forcing me off Microsoft products in general. What a pain, and a betrayal of long-time customers. Interfering with peeps going offline is interfering with security.

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