So fun! Testing Win11 Don’t care about any of the cloud, online, blah blah blah. Don’t have network access. Don’t want network access. So here I am again. Hence, my reminder to myself that this is the current (As of Sept 2023) to get to a local account on Win11 22H2 fresh install.
TLDR; oobe\ is a path. bypassnro.cmd is a batch file. Use shift+f10 to open a command prompt at the network configuration step and run oobe\bypassnro (no space).
Thank you, NavyLCDR for this post.
When installing Windows 11, if you want to get around having to connect to the internet and login with a MS account, you can enter the command prompt and run:
oobe\bypassnroI always thought oobe was the command and \bypassnro was an option switch, and I found it completely odd there was no space in there. I was wrong. The command prompt opens in C:\Windows\System32. In \Windows\System32, is a folder called oobe. And inside the oobe folder is bypassnro.cmd. So, that is what you are running with the command oobe\bypassnro.
The bypassnro.cmd is a script which contains:
@echo off
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0So, it is really a registry key that causes oobe to not require a network, and then subsequently allow you to create a local account on a clean install.
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