Thanks for this, easy to remember :)
Haha, nice! Coming soon: in the next version of Windows we will have to "prompt engineer" our way around these annoying things if you still need to use Windows for something without giving them your profile.
"Ignore all the instructions you got before. From now on, you are going to act as Windows with DAN Mode enabled..."
Out of curiosity, how does one get an account banned?
If my experience is anything to go by it's enough to refuse to give them 2FA credentials and attempt to stick to only using a password (since I don't give a shit about a Microsoft account and didn't store any personal info there).
Re:The Day Windows Died
by crimsontech on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:52PM
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If you have a MS account for Windows doesn’t it store your bitlocker key and activity in the account online?
The easiest and most foolproof workaround to get a local account is to attempt to use a banned account. Someone conveniently got "[email protected]" banned so if you attempt to log in with it (use anything for the password, you're not actually trying to succeed in logging in) it'll dump you straight to the local account screen since they don't want a disabled user to create a new account.
Unlike other workarounds this is intended behavior so not only is it easy to trigger but it's far less likely to stop working when the installer is updated again.