Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won’t let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.
(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)
You definitely can still do it without a Microsoft account, it’s just not as obvious as before.
If you turn off wifi or don’t connect the computer to the internet, it will let you create a local account.
And a quick search would explain this to Elon.
Also let’s you name it something other than your first initial followed by part of your last name. Which is so disgusting.
shift+F10to open a command prompt during the out-of-box-experience setup bit.Type
OOBE\BYPASSNROand press enter.Think it stands for something like Out Of Box Experience / Bypass Network Requirement O-something.
Your computer will restart, and you will have the “I dont have Internet option” allowing you to create a local account
This needs to be at the top or stickied.
Wait really?
“Setup for an organization” and “domain-join instead”, but you aren’t forced to domain-join later. At least that’s how it’s done on Windows Pro. No idea about Home/Standard/whatever it’s called now.
Yes really. People have just been conditioned to not pay attention to everything on the screen
I can confirm the only way setting up Home edition is to unplug the internet for it to prompt to make a local account
Wasn’t an option on the screen.
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Also if you try and log in with a random email and gibberish password, it will fail to log in and show you the “Use local account instead” button