A few years ago — before the pandemic, no less — I wrote this post about how to get a new windows laptop working without making a Microsoft account. We don’t want to give them more information than they’re already nabbing.
Well, turns out they have since then tightened all the rules, and now you like have to make a Microsoft account. My old trick of getting away from the internet won’t work anymore.
But if you do some searching, you’ll find that some people have written about some loopholes that still exist. The problem is, these loopholes are not very easy to understand — at least, were all written about in very vague ways — “oh, get the Ruby script running”, or “do the USB rubix code” and I for one wouldn’t know what any of that means. It might make you feel like you’ll break something if you try implementing them.
But turns out there is a way to do it, and it’s not hard, and here’s an article that will explain it easily. It’s a long article, but scroll all the way to the “How to use a local account with Windows 11” section and it gives you the fix, step by step. Oh, the only issue is it tells you to type start ms-chx:localonly but actually you should type start ms-cxh:localonly. Just switch the x and the h.
It also says, since the article was last updated in April 2025, that these loopholes may all have been patched up by now. But I think that some of them are still working.
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