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phanto@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Reset, once it’s done downloading (if you go cloud), pull your network cable. When it gets to “let’s get you online” hit shift f-10 which pulls up the terminal window. Type oobe\bypassnro and hit enter. Stay offline, and get back to the same spot in the install process but this time you’ll have a “I don’t have internet” link as an option. It’ll protest, but you can then move forward with a local account. I literally did it yesterday.

Once you have a local account built, Windows will give you “sign in” alerts in settings and in security.

Just for the record, I use Linux. I do however work in a Windows shop and understand that “just use Linux” isn’t at all helpful when someone asks a Windows question.

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kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
BypassNRO was removed from system files in 25H2 last year, unless you happened to be served an old ISO this won’t work anymore.

This is what I’ve been using since:

Complete the initial Windows 11 install and restart your PC.

When you reach the Secondary Keyboard Layout screen (before the Microsoft Account sign-up stage), press Ctrl + Shift + J to open the developer console.

In the console, type the command: WinJS.Application.restart(“ms-cxh://LOCALONLY”)

Hit Enter, then press Escape to close the console.

You can also use Rufus to make a setup drive which preconfigures the local account. This method and the one I use are described in this article.

PS: It still works if you copy the BypassNRO.cmd file from an old system to a new one when you’re in OOBE mode (Shift+F10) during setup. It’s just a powershell command that sets a registery key and reboots.
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- phanto@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Huh, that’s weird that I’ve been able to use the bypass NRO trick pretty consistently at work and at home… I should have mentioned the Rufus thing too, but he was doing this as a reset, not as a new install, so I didn’t.
  
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  - kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah check which version of windows it installs, it’ll be 22H2 or 24H2.
    
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    phanto@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I just got top work and asked a senior tech: 24H2 + a 25H2 enablement package to make bypassnro still work for us. Geez.
    
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- some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  This is odd because just yesterday I used it to reluctantly install Win11 as a quarantined VM for my lovely but stubbornly insistent wife. It was a tiny11 iso, though, so maybe it gets added back during image creation?
  
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umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
and they say linux is the complicated one

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- phanto@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Hehe… Try installing VMware Player or Genshin Impact in Fedora! (Those are my two most recent headaches.) Any OS can be a pain, it just seems like Linux is getting friendlier every year and Microsoft becomes more overtly the enemy.
  
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  - umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    to be fair genshin impact is supposed to have an anticheat that blocks it from running at all, no?
    
    at this point most linux issues comes from external factors, where on windows everything is tailor-made for it and windows itself breaks.
    
    dunno about vmware though, i tend to use the native options that work exceptionally well.
    
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    phanto@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah, I would do the same… Loving toolbox! I have to support some clients with VMWare though…
    
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some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
And if you still get prompted for an MS account, hit shift+F10 again and run start ms-cxh:localonly

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early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thanks, have an upvote :)

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- Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I want to reiterate the importance of the “pull the network cable” part. If you fail to unplug the cable before the setup wizard detects that there is the possibility of a network connection, on some systems it will actually prevent you from making a local account altogether, as it will force you to connect to a network which will skip the shift-f10 step.
  
  We had this issue setting up demo models on laptops for awhile, if you didn’t disable the wifi adapter before it saw there was networks available(even if they were password protected) it would require a second factory reset to even get to the point where it would let you setup a local account.
  
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  - some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Fyi you can join a network and go up to the point of Microsoft login, then use start ms-cxh:localonly to force local account creation
    
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    Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    It depends on the system, some of them once connected to a network won’t allow shift-f10 to open a prompt.
    
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  - early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I always disable the card in the BIOS before I do anything that requires it to be disconnected. In this case I had both an Ethernet adapter and WiFi radio. Both were disabled and I’m currently typing from my newly decrappified and locally managed system.
    
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