• Ace! _SL/S
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      1314 months ago

      Imagine having no internet for real when setting up Windows. I guess the hardware you bought is useless then

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        204 months ago

        It actually bypasses this when there’s no Internet access, which I had to force manually in order to work around this, as the console would not come up for me last time this happened.

        • @TORFdot0
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          494 months ago

          I just set up new PC for my grandparents that I imaged myself using the latest windows 11 iso from MS. It wouldn’t let me bypass the account require when I was offline. It just stalled at the “no network” screen and wouldn’t continue unless I connected the PC to a network.

          I had to use the OOBE/BYPASSNRO or whatever the command was

          • @[email protected]
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            194 months ago

            Same here. There has to be no network whatsoever. No wifi, no wired connection.

            You can completely cut out any internet access to the device (via the router), and it will still cry like baby and say that you need to use a Microsoft account.

            There is absolutely no reason why disabling this needs to require a special keystroke let alone command.

            • @[email protected]
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              174 months ago

              There i$ ab$olutely no rea$on why di$abling thi$ need$ to require a $pecial key$troke let along command.

          • @wreckedcarzz
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            84 months ago

            I setup my dad’s framework using this method a ~month ago - it took an extra 10 minutes but MS can blow me. I would have opted for no OS pre-installed/linux but he uses a critical application that is Windows-only, and 10 is no longer available…

            Actually consume feces, Microsoft.

            • @Wooki
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              4 months ago

              Don’t worry it’s not automatically connected without consent the moment he logged into email

          • @SpaceNoodle
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            24 months ago

            This was a couple weeks ago for me. Interesting how the experience is different for each user.

        • Dojan
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          234 months ago

          Really? I seem to recall being shit out of luck when it couldn’t figure out my WiFi drivers and wanted me to connect via Ethernet instead.

          • @SpaceNoodle
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            04 months ago

            That’s what worked for me the other week.

        • @the16bitgamer
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          24 months ago

          You can do this with 10 but not 11. Tested on both a VM and hardware.

      • circuscritic
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        124 months ago

        I always setup my own new installs offline, with no Internet connected and assumed that the was the workaround this was referring to. Guess that’s my fault for not reading the article. I wasn’t even aware of the fake email bypass.

        But my reasons were primarily because I wanted to disable as much telemetry as possible and tweak other settings before putting it on a network.

        • @[email protected]
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          184 months ago

          Just call anyone that has Linux they will gladly bring their favorite distro to your door on a flash drive. Be forewarned though, they will stick around and talk to you about it for at least two hours though.

        • @ogeist
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          34 months ago

          Nowadays you can use your phone to create a boota le USB.

      • @Lemming6969
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        14 months ago

        Call Microsoft and tie up their support

    • @RaoulDook
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      564 months ago

      That’s a crazy secret code requirement there

      • @Zachariah
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        534 months ago

        If it doesn’t work, make sure to type his first:

        ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️ B A Select Start
        
      • @[email protected]
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        94 months ago

        Shift F10 just opens the command prompt. After that it’s the name of a batch file in the oobe folder. (Out of box experience.) You can tab complete the name so you just have to remember the oobe part. The biggest annoyance is if you buy a laptop that is in S mode, you can’t start command prompt to do this.

        All it does is add a registry key, and reboot, but you would have to know how to do custom windows deployments to to create an image to skip it always.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      64 months ago

      I wasn’t able to open the console last time Windows updated itself and attempted to force me to link an email address. The solution was to disconnect from the network.