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Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts

Many users use an e-mail trick to avoid creating a Microsoft account. This has now apparently been stopped by Microsoft.

Instead of skipping the account link, you’re led into a kind of continuous loop that doesn’t end until you have entered the correct email address. You simply have to enter OOBE\BYPASSNRO in the command prompt during the Windows 11 setup process, which allows you to skip the connection to the Internet and thus also the link to a Microsoft account. Nach ihrem Studium der Kommunikationswissenschaft verschlug es sie direkt in die ersten Redaktionen, um ihre Leidenschaft auszuleben.

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