{"id":355,"date":"2025-11-05T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=355"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:52:00","slug":"new-windows-11-trick-lets-you-bypass-microsoft-account-requirement-from-bleepingcomputer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Bypass the Microsoft Account requirement in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Update 2025-10: MS is closing loopholes<\/h3>\n<p>The following method should* be bulletproof&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the login prompt, press <strong>Shift+F10<\/strong> to open a command prompt.<\/p>\n<pre>net user \"username\" * \/add\r\nnet localgroup administrators \"username\" \/add\r\nnet user \"username\" \/active:yes\r\nnet user \"username\" \/expires:never\r\n\r\nnet user \"Administrator\" \/active:no\r\nnet user \"defaultUser0\" \/delete\r\n\r\nnet user\r\n\r\nregedit<\/pre>\n<p>Now, in registry editor, navigate to:<br \/>\nHKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\OOBE<br \/>\nand delete the following values:<br \/>\nDefaultAccountAction, DefaultAccountSAMName, DefaultAccountSID<\/p>\n<p>Rename LaunchUserOOBE to SkipMachineOOBE and ensure the value is set to 1<\/p>\n<p>Back at the command prompt, run:<\/p>\n<pre>shutdown \/r \/t 0<\/pre>\n<h3>Old methods (may not work):<\/h3>\n<p>At the &#8220;Let&#8217;s connect you to a network&#8221; screen, press <strong>Shift+F10<\/strong> to open a command prompt and type\u00a0<code>start ms-cxh:localonly<\/code> to open a window where you can create a local user.<\/p>\n<p>After filling in the information and clicking the\u00a0<strong>Next\u00a0<\/strong>button, the Windows 11 setup will continue. However, now it will continue using your created local account and will not prompt you to use a Microsoft Account.<\/p>\n<h3>References:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/new-windows-11-trick-lets-you-bypass-microsoft-account-requirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/new-windows-11-trick-lets-you-bypass-microsoft-account-requirement\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8A-hjlJHz64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8A-hjlJHz64<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update 2025-10: MS is closing loopholes The following method should* be bulletproof&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[58,57],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-microsoft-account","tag-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}