Does this trick actually work?
It’s so stupid that we need to resort to these tricks and workarounds. Local account should be the first, default option. Using a Microsoft account should be a secondary opt-in option, only for that strange minority of people who would actually want to do such a thing on purpose.
I wish. It’s one thing with hardware, since multiple designs are expensive to produce side by side. But not so with software. If they are forced to comply with some EU standard, they’ll just make one EU compliant version and continue to fuck over the rest of the world with unregulated bullshit.
You say this like they haven’t already done so https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-pro-vs-pro-n/
Any time I log with my Microsoft account on a Windows computer it also butchers my name and uses just some letters from it when creating folders and stuff like that. It’s something that is stored somewhere only this specific action reads from, but it’s happening for over a decade already with no idea how to fix.
Between that and the fact that windows now creates the Documents folder inside of OneDrive directly and gets all messed up if you move it out, I ended up buying windows Pro just to get back to an offline account.
I just did this the other day. For figure c you’ll see sign in options. With that you have the option for domain join. Do that and it simply runs you through creating a local user. No domain join or MS account needed.
This was done on W11 Pro so your mileage may vary on W11Home
Is a requirement for getting hired at Microsoft the ability so show utter contempt for your users? Sure seems like it.
-
DON’T CONNECT TO WI-FI
-
Shit+F10 (you might need to hit Fn+Shift+F10) will open up command prompt
-
OOBE\BYPASSNRO
-
It should now reboot and give you the option to make a local account in the fine print
This is the way! I did this recently with a recent Win11 Pro installation.
This is also the proper way to name the user’s folder yourself instead of letting Microsoft decide. The auto namer often makes poor choices and renaming it breaks a lot of stuff unless you wipe and reinstall.
