Microsoft kills two extra methods to put in Home windows 11 with native accounts

Microsoft is tightening the reins on new installations of Home windows 11 with stricter Microsoft account necessities. As individuals within the Home windows Insider Program have seen, two well-known tips for putting in Home windows 11 and not using a Microsoft account not work.

Microsoft has eliminated the command line workarounds oobebypassnro and begin ms-cxh:localonly within the Home windows 11 Insider Preview Construct 26220.6772 (KB5065797) within the Beta and Dev Channels. With these instructions, it was beforehand doable to create a neighborhood account when reinstalling Home windows 11. Going ahead, a Microsoft account shall be required when putting in or reinstalling Home windows 11.

Microsoft writes the next on this Home windows Insider weblog submit:

Native-only instructions removing: We’re eradicating recognized mechanisms for creating a neighborhood account within the Home windows Setup expertise (OOBE). Whereas these mechanisms had been usually used to bypass Microsoft account setup, in addition they inadvertently skip essential setup screens, probably inflicting customers to exit OOBE with a tool that’s not absolutely configured to be used. Customers might want to full OOBE with web and a Microsoft account, to make sure gadget is setup accurately.

Microsoft has lengthy positioned nice significance on making certain that each one Home windows 11 customers are logged in with a Microsoft account. The reinstallation of Home windows 11 and not using a Microsoft account and solely with a neighborhood account has all the time been a thorn in Microsoft’s aspect, and the removals of the aforementioned workarounds are simply one other step on this course. Luckily, for now, the removals solely apply to Insider variations of Home windows 11 and never launch variations.

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