{"id":14154,"date":"2025-05-06T09:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14154"},"modified":"2025-05-24T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:17:28","slug":"install-windows-11-with-a-local-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14154","title":{"rendered":"Install Windows 11 with a local account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hate that Windows 11 requires an internet connection and registering a Microsoft Account?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most popular bypass was &#8220;oobe\\bypassnro&#8221; which, when typed into the command prompt (opened with Shift + F10) during the Windows 11 setup experience, would enable a button that let you skip connecting to the internet and the Microsoft account requirement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/witherornot1337\/status\/1906050664741937328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@witherornot1337 on X<\/a>, used &#8220;<strong>start ms-cxh:localonly<\/strong>&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Improved bypass for Windows 11 OOBE:<br><br>1. Shift-F10<br>2. start ms-cxh:localonly<br><br>Only required on Home and Pro editions. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZUa89ZPBI3\">pic.twitter.com\/ZUa89ZPBI3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Wither OrNot (@witherornot1337) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/witherornot1337\/status\/1906050664741937328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/software-apps\/windows-11\/an-even-better-microsoft-account-bypass-for-windows-11-has-already-been-discovered#\">https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/software-apps\/windows-11\/an-even-better-microsoft-account-bypass-for-windows-11-has-already-been-discovered#<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate that Windows 11 requires an internet connection and registering a Microsoft Account? The most popular bypass was &#8220;oobe\\bypassnro&#8221; which, when typed into the command prompt (opened with Shift + F10) during the Windows 11 setup experience, would enable a button that let you skip connecting to the internet and the Microsoft account requirement. @witherornot1337 on X, used &#8220;start ms-cxh:localonly&#8221; into the command prompt during the Windows 11 setup experience will allow you to create a local account directly without&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14154\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technicalproblemsolutions","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Gi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14155,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14154\/revisions\/14155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}