It‘s not actually there in current windows versions. It takes some sort of workaround and I think you actually need to use the cmd. It is possible though.
last time i installed win10 on my desktop, the skip option definitely wasn’t there, tried googling but couldn’t find a solution so i had to create that damn account. next day my laptop that i need for school wouldn’t let me log in anymore without an account. that day i joined team linux. btw i wonder if it would force that ms account crap if you had no internet at the moment?
Just use Rufus to make the USB… I mean, it’s fairly simple to use it, and it asks you IF you give it a Windows ISO if you’d like to skip these things. There are other tweaks as well, like no BitLocker by default.
It‘s not actually there in current windows versions. It takes some sort of workaround and I think you actually need to use the cmd. It is possible though.
last time i installed win10 on my desktop, the skip option definitely wasn’t there, tried googling but couldn’t find a solution so i had to create that damn account. next day my laptop that i need for school wouldn’t let me log in anymore without an account. that day i joined team linux. btw i wonder if it would force that ms account crap if you had no internet at the moment?
On windows 11, I believe you just can’t set it up without internet. There’s a couple of registry hacks you can do to bypass that though.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/set-up-windows-11-without-internet-oobebypassnro/4fc44554-b416-4ecb-8961-6f79fd55ae0f
I think Microsoft ships slightly different versions in different markets.
I think it’s there if you install pro or enterprise
Not anymore with pro, iirc. It worked longer than home but they changed that, I think. Dunno for enterprise.
This takes a few minutes to test, so I did.
TLDR: You can do it in Win11 Pro at least, but the interface tries really hard to steer you into a Microsoft account.
Used the Windows image tool at https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
This created me a 23H2 ISO
Created a VM in VMWare Workstation and started setup
When asked for the key, I chose “I don’t have a product key”
When asked for version, I chose “Windows 11 Pro”
After the restart, during OOBE, it asks me how I would like to setup, I chose “work or school”
When asked to sign-in to Microsoft, I chose “Sign-in options”
I then chose to “Domain join instead”
I’m then asked to create a new standard user
Just use Rufus to make the USB… I mean, it’s fairly simple to use it, and it asks you IF you give it a Windows ISO if you’d like to skip these things. There are other tweaks as well, like no BitLocker by default.
You actually have to make sure the device never connects to the internet in order to create a local only user account.