Many users use an e-mail trick to avoid creating a Microsoft account. This has now apparently been stopped by Microsoft.
  • Katzastrophe@feddit.de
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    5 months ago

    Tried that a few months ago with a factory new machine and it did not work. Though it might work on Pro machines

    • A Mouse@midwest.socialEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

      • Katzastrophe@feddit.de
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        5 months ago

        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

    • echutaa@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      You just need quotes on it, ms fucked up the directory traversal “oobe/bypassnro.cmd” worked for me setting up a user machine yesterday