In its battle to force users to use a Microsoft account, the American firm always seems to be one step behind.
For many years now, Microsoft has been trying to get users of the Windows operating system to link their license and OS to a Microsoft account. In terms of simplicity, this makes it very easy to find your official Windows license, and also enables faster deployment of your configuration by duplicating many settings/applications with a single click of the mouse. On the other hand, it also means you have to sacrifice your privacy and, above all, have an active Internet connection at the time of installation. Two constraints that annoy quite a few people and have made popular what's known as a bypass, a way of bypassing the login screen when installing Windows 11.
Windows 11 login screen © Microsoft
Just a few days ago, Microsoft decided to make this famous bypass inoperative: it is no longer possible to use the "bypassnro" command line, which skipped the Internet connection step and, logically, the need to have/enter a Microsoft account.
But other users didn't see it that way, and were quick (too quick?) to come up with a new solution to Microsoft's barrier. It's a new solution that doesn't change much from the previous one. Indeed, when Windows 11 tells us to connect to the network, all we have to do is use the Shift+F10 key combination to open the Windows command line window. Here, enter the command "start ms-cxh:localonly" to open a window authorizing the creation of a local account in place of an online one. Once this information has been entered, Windows 11 installation can continue without ever requiring a Microsoft account. The Techzine site also explains that Microsoft could be hard pressed to remove this command line which, according to our colleagues, is " more deeply integrated into the system ".
