Confirmed: Windows 10 Setup Now Prevents Local Account Creation

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Confirmed: Windows 10 Setup Now Prevents Local Account Creation

Windows 10 Home now forces you to create a Microsoft account during the setup process. (Unless you disconnect your PC from the network, but most people will find that.)

www.howtogeek.com

How to Create a Local User Account Instead
Thankfully, there is one hidden way around this process on Windows 10 Home: You can disconnect your computer from the network.

If you have a computer with an Ethernet cable, unplug it. If you’re connected to Wi-Fi, disconnect.

After you do, try creating a Microsoft account and you’ll see a “Something went wrong” error message. You can then click “Skip” to skip the Microsoft account creation process.

Once you’ve skipped the Microsoft account creation, the old “Who’s going to use this PC?” screen will appear. You can now create an offline account and sign in to Windows 10 without a Microsoft account—the option was there all along.

Even if you have a laptop with Wi-Fi, Windows 10 asks you to connect to your wireless network before reaching this part of the process. Most people will connect to the network and think a Microsoft account is required.

Perhaps a future version of Windows 10 will refuse to allow account creation until you’re connected to the internet. “After all,” Microsoft might say, “Telemetry shows most people just create Microsoft accounts.”

This is yet another dark pattern from the company that brought us “Upgrade now or upgrade tonight” during Windows 10’s free upgrade period.

Good thing I'm switching to Linux. So over ms and their crap. Just got my main to mint Linux. All but 4 PC's in this house are on Linux. I got more than 15 systems.

 

[Totally]

Why anyone would install W10 while connected to internet ever is beyond me, I've never done it.

First, I want to remove any pending apps in Start waiting to be downloaded before connecting, Candy Crush is/was one of them IIRC.
Yeah sure you can just delete them later with PS together with anything else you don't want, but why install them in the first place?

Second, I want to set up OO shutup before connecting.

I installed the .207 version two weeks ago with a local account,

Try clean installing from a usb, on a pc with a 490z or 570x/390z/x399/trx40 motherboard when they were new and tell me how that goes. Deleting a handful of apps beats ferrying drivers from a internet connected machine to the new one until it can connect by itself every day of the week.

 

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Because it's easier to plug all the cables in at once than going back to the machine after setup to plug in the NIC cable.

Sounds hard.

Because Windows 10 needs to activate that Windows 7 key I typed in.

It's not needed during installation. I guess you've never used GatherOSState.exe, which only works when unplugged. Although I rarely use it nowadays, most computers I come across are already upgraded.

So the simple solution(which happens to be a very strict rule I follow) is make sure the system is NOT connected to any network during installation. This works on any version of Windows 10. Local account is the only option when a network is not detected/present.

This practice ensures the system stays under user control during the entire installation.

Exactly, I don't see any drawbacks of doing that.

Try clean installing from a usb, on a pc with a 490z or 570x/390z/x399/trx40 motherboard when they were new and tell me how that goes. Deleting a handful of apps beats ferrying drivers from a internet connected machine to the new one until it can connect by itself every day of the week.

What? I'm talking about installing Windows, not drivers. You can do all that after installation is done and you've come to desktop and connect to internet, no?

 

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What? I'm talking about installing Windows, not drivers. You can do all that after installation is done and you've come to desktop and connect to internet, no?

No chipset driver = no LAN = no internet. Drivers are the reason why you want to be connected to the internet, so during install windows can connect to ms server and download any necessary files that aren't on the disk.

 

[Solaris17]

Looks like Windows still lets you use a local account and we have had several posts off topic now.

If you need to know more or do more with store apps, or argue the difficulty rating of plugging in a network cable feel free to do so in other threads.