Lol that’s what I did after getting my new Windows laptop. Sad it’s blocked.
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Hm. So are we all the way there to Win 11 not being installable in fully offline machines, or...? Because niche as that application is, it does sound like the start of a use case for a natively compatible Windows alternative from a third party (say, a FreeWin to go with FreeDOS). I know there are or have been some attempts, but... yeah, long term that seems like it would prompt more focus on something like that.
I suppose it's more likely that compatibility layers in other OSs would get there first and more practically, but still. Maybe it's time to move Windows applications from an ecosystem to a standard.
Linux with wine/proton already works pretty good for running Windows programs and games outside of Windows.
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I’m sure enterprise editions have to allow it in some capacity. There will always be businesses that will use Windows on machines not exposed to the Internet.
With that said, this is some BS. And MS I don’t want to hear the argument that smartphone vendors do it. They shouldn’t require an account either.
Microsoft would like to introduce you to EntraID.
That's the enterprise version of this.
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The year of the ReactOS desktop?
On a serious note, I suspect the IOT version doesn't have this requirement.
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FreeWin
ReactOS has been around for a while but still in development and not production ready
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Use shift f10 and edit the registry.... They aren't disabling that until they have a better solution for autopilot.
May not work for home editions...
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lack of local accounting means its no longer your operating system, youre now using a perpetually required service from microsoft.
the walled garden is putting the last bricks in place. hope all you windows fans are ...happy... asking ~~apple~~ microsoft for permission to use your own hardware.
Wait, a proprietary OS is someone else's computer?
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But why don't you just turn off the internet when setting up Windows? You don't need any hacks for that
The W11 installer sadly doesn't allow that anymore with the current versions. If you have that older installer, keep it safely archived.
Win11 doesn't let you past setup if you dont have an internet connection.
I believe it wasn't the case in the past. Well that sucks. I'm glad I don't use Windows for anything except gaming now
A few months back I installed home edition and this workaround did not work. The installer would not allow me to proceed until it could verify with Microsoft.
Just used this bypass 2 days ago. I'd recommend people download the current W11 installer so that the work around always works as long as you keep the device away from Internet until the OS is installed
I believe that one was patched a while ago
Never heard of it being patched so can't tell. Btw was the old one with administrator command prompt patched too?
It worked as of six months ago, but it is possible that was patched in this recent "fix".
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OOBE\BYPASSNRO and fuck Microsoft
That no longer works sadly
Unless I missed something, the article states as follows
Another method of bypassing the account lockdown still exists. You simply have to enter OOBE\BYPASSNRO in the command prompt during the Windows 11 setup process, which allows you to skip the connection to the Internet and thus also the link to a Microsoft account.
Tried that a few months ago with a factory new machine and it did not work. Though it might work on Pro machines
You just need quotes on it, ms fucked up the directory traversal “oobe/bypassnro.cmd” worked for me setting up a user machine yesterday
Of course they did, urg
Worked for me last week
That's interesting! I wonder if they are locking down factory installations.
About a month ago I was able to do it with a fresh install of Pro in a VM, I'll do a quick test and see if it works on Home...and it works too. I had to disconnect the network and then run the OOBE\BYPASSNRO command, it rebooted and gave me the continue without network and limited setup options.
That's super weird, but disconnecting the network is the only way that you can reliably setup the machine without an account in my experience
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Fuck Microsoft