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== Create first account as a local account rather than a Microsoft account == Many help articles out there will tell you that you just need to connect to the internet, then disconnect when you get the license agreement page. This does not appear to work anymore. Instead, at the page demanding you connect to the internet, 1. Press {key shift F10} to pop open the command prompt 2. Run `oobe\bypassnro` 3. After a weirdly long time (but hey, it's Windows, that's expected) the setup will restart and you can run through it again, but this time at the page demanding you connect to the internet you'll see link text beside the previously only button in the bottom-right which lets you skip this. 4. You'll then get a nag page being like "are you suuuuure you don't wanna connect?", again with the dark pattern of the option you want being just link text beside the button Microsoft wants you to press. 5. Okay *now* you'll get the screen to set up a local account.

== Create first account as a local account rather than a Microsoft account == Many help articles out there will tell you that you just need to connect to the internet, then disconnect when you get the license agreement page. This does not appear to work anymore. Instead, at the page demanding you connect to the internet, 1. Press {key shift F10} to pop open the command prompt 2. Run `oobe\bypassnro` 3. After a weirdly long time (but hey, it's Windows, that's expected) the setup will restart and you can run through it again, but this time at the page demanding you connect to the internet you'll see link text beside the previously only button in the bottom-right which lets you skip this. 4. You'll then get a nag page being like "are you suuuuure you don't wanna connect?", again with the dark pattern of the option you want being just link text beside the button Microsoft wants you to press. 5. Okay *now* you'll get the screen to set up a local account. NOTE: The Window 11 version of the local account setup in the first run wizard sets only the username, no option for a display name. I recommend choosing one without spaces (as this determines the path of your home directory, and spaces are evil in paths), and then if you want a fancier name later, open up `lusrmgr.msc` and set the "Full Name" field for the account, which will show up then instead of the literal username in places like the login screen.

== Create first account as a local account rather than a Microsoft account == Many help articles out there will tell you that you just need to connect to the internet, then disconnect when you get the license agreement page. This does not appear to work anymore. Instead, at the page demanding you connect to the internet, 1. Press {key shift F10} to pop open the command prompt 2. Run `oobe\bypassnro` 3. After a weirdly long time (but hey, it's Windows, that's expected) the setup will restart and you can run through it again, but this time at the page demanding you connect to the internet you'll see link text beside the previously only button in the bottom-right which lets you skip this. 4. You'll then get a nag page being like "are you suuuuure you don't wanna connect?", again with the dark pattern of the option you want being just link text beside the button Microsoft wants you to press. 5. Okay *now* you'll get the screen to set up a local account. NOTE: The Window 11 version of the local account setup in the first run wizard sets only the username, no option for a display name. I recommend choosing one without spaces (as this determines the path of your home directory, and spaces are evil in paths), and then if you want a fancier name later, open up `lusrmgr.msc` and set the "Full Name" field for the account, which will show up then instead of the literal username in places like the login screen.