- Microsoft has just blocked a popular solution to install Windows 11 with a local account
- Some people like to avoid having a Microsoft account linked to the operating system due to privacy (or other) concerns
- While alternative solutions remain, it is likely that they can also be cut, and Microsoft is advancing a lot along the wrong path here
Microsoft seems to be moving to block Windows 11 users who want to install the operating system using a local account, which means they want to avoid having to use a Microsoft account (and being online) when configuring the operating system.
Not everyone wants to link their copy of Windows 11 directly to their Microsoft account, or they may not even have such an account, and those are the people who only want to use a local account (only linked to the PC itself).
While Microsoft officially eliminated this choice of the Windows 11 configuration experience some time ago, there was a commonly used solution, but the software giant has just block this.
As Windows Central makes it clear, that method of fading the requirement to use a Microsoft account was to turn on the system symbol and enter ‘OOBE ByPassnro‘ – But in the last advances of Windows 11, Microsoft has eliminated that ability. Specifically, this is the previous view Build 26200.5516, which is possibly the first step in the route to Windows 11 25h2, this year’s great update.
However, it is still possible to use that particular sugar sweet in a different way: editing the record, as Windows Last shows us. That is clumsy, and possibly dangerous for less technology expert users, since registration can spoil your system if it sets a bad foot with its edition, but fortunately there is a better solution.
Windows Central noticed that, as stood out on X by Witheronnot, there is a different command to achieve this particular trick. Is ‘MS-CXH: local‘ and Again, this is entered in the system symbol, which is reached by pressing ‘Change + F10‘ During the Windows 11 configuration process.
Look how it works in the video clip in X below, but it is a much easier and more aerodynamic way to do so than the previous method.
Improved bypass for Windows 11 Oobe: 1. Change-F102. Start MS-CXH: Localonlylyly required in the start and pro editions. Pic.twitter.com/zua89zpbi3March 29, 2025
ANALYSIS: Wait complete obstacles instead in a short time, but this should not be happening at all
To summarize the current situation, there are still two ways (at least) that can interrupt the Windows 11 configuration process and install without using a Microsoft account, only operating with a local account (instead (without links in the operating system with Microsoft, which some people prefer purely from a privacy point of view).
However, and it is a great however – I hope Microsoft locks the alternative registration sweet mentioned above with quite a quick. And it is likely that the other solution presented in X will be sent to the great Windows 11 cemetery in heaven in heaven, also, now that it has become a common knowledge. Well, it may not be common knowledge, but much better known, anyway.
Microsoft is likely to block all the ways of evading your requirement to have a Microsoft account when installing Windows 11. Clearly, this is a general policy that is being implemented, and would expect it to continue. Maybe not so fast, but I bet that when Windows 11 25h2 arrives, he will have some of these blocks in his place.
For those who really do not want a Microsoft account with their Windows 11 installation, it is likely that there is only one course of action eventually, simply to create a fictional Microsoft account that is a blank board, with which it does nothing. Then you can create a local account, postsetup of Windows, following Microsoft’s advice on how to do it (a support document that, very controversial, disappeared for a while).
However, complaining that Microsoft will stamp these solution solutions is to lose the point. In the first place, there should be no need for these fudges, because Microsoft should give us the freedom to choose if we want a local account or an installation linked to the Microsoft account, during the Windows configuration (as was the case in the past).
Of course, Microsoft argues that having a linked account gives you the synchronization of your services (and your files) in all devices, and better security (backups and such), but there are other ways to achieve these purposes in many cases. And it should be the user’s choice: if I want a local account, I should have one. I do not, as is the case, but the point is that there must be a freedom of choice here.
Of course, load that choice screen with warnings that warn less technology expert users on the benefits that will be lost due to not having a Microsoft account connected, but place the option, please.
In a more serious note, there may also be technical gremlins that interfere with the installation of Windows 11 by linking it to an online Microsoft account. Here in Techradar we have experienced a frustrating login failed in the review hardware, for example, which meant that a local account was necessary To install the operating system (presumably due to server side failures in the Microsoft part). In these scenarios, a local installation option, or alternative solution, is not only pleasant, but of critical importance.
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