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Image description: Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 42m Just bought a new PC laptop and it won't let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their Al access to my computer! This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account. Are you seeing this too? This is not cool of Microsoft.


(Originally published on mastodon.social: 2024-02-25)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Don't connect the computer to the Internet before you complete setup. If you did already...

Shift F8 during setup OOBE\BYPASSNRO

If that doesn't work, use IPCONFIG /RELEASE to break your Internet connection, then it will relent and let you setup without a Microsoft account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Way too much work. Just connect it to the internet and use as an account: [email protected] and a random password, it will let u use local

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

On my last vm install (was for a tutorial) it let me install without access but on first boot I couldn’t get past set up steps without it

However that was using home instead of pro which I have no idea why someone would do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Elon isn’t reading this.