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Subject: Re: A new, potentially better Windows account bypass has been
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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:05:24 -0400
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On Mon, 3/31/2025 5:21 AM, Borax Man wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]
> On 2025-03-30, pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
>> On 2025-03-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> <https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/an-even-better-microsoft-account-bypass-for-windows-11-has-already-been-discovered>
>>>
>>> Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it was removing a popular 
>>> command line that allowed users to bypass connecting to the internet and 
>>> signing into a Microsoft Account during the setup phase on Windows 11.
>>>
>>> Since 2022, Windows 11 has required both an internet connection and 
>>> Microsoft Account when setting up a new PC. Naturally, not everybody 
>>> wants this, and so workarounds and bypasses have been discovered.
>>>
>>> The most popular bypass was "oobe\bypassnro" which, when typed into the 
>>> command prompt during the Windows 11 setup experience, would enable a 
>>> button that let you skip connecting to the internet, thus bypassing the 
>>> Microsoft Account requirement.
>>>
>>> Microsoft has said that it is removing this command to push more users 
>>> to connect to the internet and sign in with a Microsoft Account during 
>>> the setup phase. Understandably, the internet is outraged.
>>>
>>> While oobe\bypassnro is being removed, the actual registry entry that 
>>> enables the button to skip connecting to the internet isn't, at least 
>>> not yet. So you can still manually create the registry edit yourself, 
>>> but that's a much longer and tedious process.
>>>
>>> But fret not, as a new, perhaps better bypass has already been 
>>> discovered that still uses the command prompt (which you can open with 
>>> Shift + F10) and makes skipping the Microsoft Account sign-in step a 
>>> total breeze.
>>>
>>> Discovered by user @witherornot1337 on X, typing "start 
>>> ms-cxh:localonly" into the command prompt during the Windows 11 setup 
>>> experience will allow you to create a local account directly without 
>>> needing to skip connecting to the internet first.
>>>
>>> The new bypass involves creating a local account via the older Windows 
>>> 10 interface. (Image credit: Windows Central)
>>> The command will pop up an older, Windows 10 style interface that lets 
>>> you specify a username and password for the local account. Then, 
>>> clicking next will take you straight to preparing the desktop, before 
>>> being asked to specify your privacy settings.
>>>
>>> We tested this method on the latest Windows 11 preview build 26200 and 
>>> can confirm that it works. It's a much more streamlined process compared 
>>> to the old oobe\bypassnro method, which required the PC to restart and 
>>> to slowly progress through the Windows 11 setup experience before 
>>> landing on the desktop.
>>>
>>> This new method doesn't require a restart and skips straight to the end 
>>> of the setup experience, landing just at the point where Windows asks 
>>> you to configure privacy settings. It's a win all around!
>>>
>>> While this new workaround works for now, something tells me that 
>>> Microsoft is likely going to crack down on these bypasses more often 
>>> going forward. So, it's unknown how long this new bypass will work, so 
>>> use it while you can!
>>
>> The oobe\bypassnro method is the only one that worked for me. That was a couple
>> of weeks ago. 
>> All the others, fake emails etc failed to work.
>>
>> The easy solution is to install the professional version of Windows.
>> At least until they screw with that as well.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Which they will.  These workarounds is just backing yourself into a
> corner.  They'll go further and further to lock you down, force you to
> use their services and cajole you into computing as per THEIR vision.
> No point trying to stay afloat a sinking ship.  Abandon Windows now.
> 

Computing still works. SuperPI 1.5xs is still as fast as it ever was :-)
6:53 for 32 million digits of PI. 16MB of L3. 4635 Mhz
6:30 for 32 million digits of PI. 64MB of L3. 5050 Mhz

One of the two machines has an MSA. Must be the slow one :-)

I used to compare the OSes on that benchmark, but the machine
I used to use for that died (blown southbridge), so I can no
longer compare them. I used to compare them from WinXP to Win10.
Maybe Windows 7 was a few seconds faster. But there was not a
progression of "our latest OS is our best OS".

Most of the Microsoft "tricks" and "ploys" are pointless, but
it makes them happy I guess. I don't find myself buying
"XBox GamePass?" just because a Notification popped up in my face.
I don't have an XBox, and it's hard to say how a single
notification would turn me into a "rental gamer". My last copy of
Microsoft Office here, was bought in 1999, when I was
still working. And I won't need an AI to help me write a ransom note.

"Clippy"
https://uncyclopedia.com/w/images/b/b3/Mainscreen1.jpg

   Paul