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.
Yup… still need to create an account to use but if you’re not online…no bueno for Microsoft bueno for local account. Just beware, you won’t be able to take advantage of all of Microsoft…cloud services or the telemetry you can’t opt out of…
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.
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