Re: A new, potentially better Windows account bypass has been discovered

On 2025-03-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

<https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/an-even-better-microsoft-account-bypass-for-windows-11-has-already-been-discovered>
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Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it was removing a popular
command line that allowed users to bypass connecting to the internet and
signing into a Microsoft Account during the setup phase on Windows 11.
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Since 2022, Windows 11 has required both an internet connection and
Microsoft Account when setting up a new PC. Naturally, not everybody
wants this, and so workarounds and bypasses have been discovered.
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The most popular bypass was "oobe\bypassnro" which, when typed into the
command prompt during the Windows 11 setup experience, would enable a
button that let you skip connecting to the internet, thus bypassing the
Microsoft Account requirement.
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Microsoft has said that it is removing this command to push more users
to connect to the internet and sign in with a Microsoft Account during
the setup phase. Understandably, the internet is outraged.
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While oobe\bypassnro is being removed, the actual registry entry that
enables the button to skip connecting to the internet isn't, at least
not yet. So you can still manually create the registry edit yourself,
but that's a much longer and tedious process.
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But fret not, as a new, perhaps better bypass has already been
discovered that still uses the command prompt (which you can open with
Shift + F10) and makes skipping the Microsoft Account sign-in step a
total breeze.
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Discovered by user @witherornot1337 on X, typing "start
ms-cxh:localonly" into the command prompt during the Windows 11 setup
experience will allow you to create a local account directly without
needing to skip connecting to the internet first.
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The new bypass involves creating a local account via the older Windows
10 interface. (Image credit: Windows Central)
The command will pop up an older, Windows 10 style interface that lets
you specify a username and password for the local account. Then,
clicking next will take you straight to preparing the desktop, before
being asked to specify your privacy settings.
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We tested this method on the latest Windows 11 preview build 26200 and
can confirm that it works. It's a much more streamlined process compared
to the old oobe\bypassnro method, which required the PC to restart and
to slowly progress through the Windows 11 setup experience before
landing on the desktop.
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This new method doesn't require a restart and skips straight to the end
of the setup experience, landing just at the point where Windows asks
you to configure privacy settings. It's a win all around!
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While this new workaround works for now, something tells me that
Microsoft is likely going to crack down on these bypasses more often
going forward. So, it's unknown how long this new bypass will work, so
use it while you can!

The oobe\bypassnro method is the only one that worked for me. That was a couple
of weeks ago.
All the others, fake emails etc failed to work.

The easy solution is to install the professional version of Windows.
At least until they screw with that as well.



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