• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    For those who care, at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10.

    CMD will open.

    Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.

    Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.

    Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.

    Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.

    Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.

    Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the “U” is capitalized) and press enter.

    Next type “regedit” and press enter.

    This opens registry editor, navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE”

    Delete “DefaultAccountAction”, “DefaultAccountSAMName”, and “DefaultAccountSID”

    Right click on “LaunchUserOOBE” and rename it to “SkipMachineOOBE” and make sure the value is set to “1”.

    Close registry editor and type “shutdown /r /t 0”

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      Windows users: “I don’t want to swap to Linux, you have to follow arcane instructions from the Internet and use the terminal to do basic tasks”

      Also Windows users: “Now here is how you add a local user:”

      at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10.

      CMD will open.

      Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.

      Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.

      Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.

      Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.

      Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.

      Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the “U” is capitalized) and press enter.

      Next type “regedit” and press enter.

      This opens registry editor, navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE”

      Delete “DefaultAccountAction”, “DefaultAccountSAMName”, and “DefaultAccountSID”

      Right click on “LaunchUserOOBE” and rename it to “SkipMachineOOBE” and make sure the value is set to “1”.

      Close registry editor and type “shutdown /r /t 0”

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        No, they aren’t. The only people I ever here say that are angry linux fanboys complaining that people won’t use their preferred distro. This guide is for the people who want to do such a thing. If you don’t want to then don’t no one cares. Use Bazzite or Mint if you think linux is too hard.

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      I’ve been doing this in command prompt:

      reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

      shutdown/r /t 0

      After reboot it lets you choose “I don’t have internet” and you can continue with creating a local account.

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          If they did it would make all the bullshit I typed earlier entirely pointless, and honestly I hope its true because having to do all of the just to get a local account is ridiculous.

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      6 days ago

      Honestly in my opinion just pirate windows ltsc/iot ltsc/server ltsc editions

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      I thought they started blocking that work around.

      Also +1 for describing things like the quotes and preferred username.

      We had a guy doing remote file copy on a Unix system. Hr was given a sample like:

      Scp john@server2:/data/incoming/filename.prt /home/john/files

      He tried 5 times then complained to IT that the system couldn’t find the file to transfer.

      IT realized he wasn’t replacing filename with his filename he just assumed the server new which file he wanted by typing filename. Lol.

      Had a user given instructions to delete log data in C:/users/myusername/logs

      User replies to IT: my system does not have a folder called “myusername”

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        Unless they remove local accounts all together or disable shift F10 in the OOBE this should work, it just sets up a local account through command prompt in a similar manner that lusrmrg.msc would.

        That said I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if they remove local accounts altogether next.

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          5 days ago

          I think that was part of a Windows 11 update, but I’d have to find the article

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      6 days ago

      Intructions unclear.

      Invalid command: net rap user Prefferedusername
      Usage:
      net rap user add             Add specified user
      net rap user info            List domain groups of specified user
      net rap user delete          Remove specified user