Windows 11

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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 ⇧+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.

Ughh it's so bloated, is there an easy way to make it smaller?

There are a few ways, though as of this writing none of them have been tried by @keithzg.

• Tiny11 is a slimmed-down installer image
• BloatyNosy is a utility that can be run after an installation

Make a Store app the default for a filetype

See https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/win10-store-default-apps.html for the gory details, but the way that works is basically:

1. Start the program you want to use to open your file.
2. Open the Task Manager
3. Click More details at the bottom if it opens in simplified/compact mode.
4. Find your program in the list and double-click to expand it.
5. Right-click on the main process entry in the expanded list. It’ll have the same icon and name as the program, and will be near the top of the list.
6. Choose Open file location
7. Select the path in the navigation bar and copy it.