I have put together a few things I can do to replace the oobe\BypassNRO command to not require a Microsoft account on a fresh install of Windows. While I was fiddling around with this I found something interesting. I found the Windows 10 taskbar… I am not sure if I am crazy or not, but it appears that it is still there. Also feel free to give me some tweaks of your own, I would love to have more.
Here are my instructions to bypass needing a Microsoft account on a fresh install:
At the stage after disk initialization and the system restarts (when you don’t need the usb drive for install)
- use shift + f10 to bring up cmd
- run regedit
- navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE
- Delete LaunchUserOOBE
- Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogin
- Set the following
a) AutoAdminLogon to “0”
b) AutoLogonSID to blank
c) DefaultUserName to blank
d) EnableFirstLogonAnimation to 0
This next one is a personal preference
6.5) Navigate to HKCU\Software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\advanced
a) add a new 32-bit value of TaskbarAl (thats an L not i or 1) and it will align the taskbar to the left.
b) (This is to hide a few buttons Widgets and Chat) TaskbarDa = 0, TaskbarMn = 0,
7) Create new User
a) in CMD type [net user User /add]
b) type [net localgroup administrators User /add]
c) type [net user defaultuser0 /del]
8) Logoff from cmd using logoff or shutdown -l
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Rod-IT
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There is a much quicker way and another thread on this
start ms-cxh:localonly
Microsoft removing bypassnro script in Win11 - Windows - Spiceworks Community
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Yeah I have seen that command too. I didn’t see the other thread, but I figured I would put another option out there if anyone wanted it. I also wanted to point out the Windows 10 taskbar is still present and can be seen when doing this.
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i havent had the chance to try yet but does this just move the taskbar to the left? thats already an option inside of personalization>taskbar>taskbar behavior that ive been using for years since i hate the centered taskbar look. the widget toggle is also on that menu.
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Yes it just moves it to the left, but since I was messing around with it I figured I would add it here. Honestly after I found the taskbar for Win-10 I was just fiddling around with regedit to try to figure out how to enable it since it was still there.
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Personally I am quite upset about the forced use of Microsoft account. Thank you for the tips! I usually just ran a CMD window, navigated to where BypassNRO was located and executed that directly (recently I hear they apparently removed it, I keep a copy on my installation media just for good measure)
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