Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account
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UPDATE: 2020-02-24
Windows 10 Pro, official 1909 ISOIt looks like the original post is still mostly accurate:
After selecting your region and keyboard layout:
Create local account by clicking Offline account:
Click Limited experience to continue creating a local account:
Type your name then click Next:
Type your password then click Next:
Type your password again to confirm, then click Next:
Select and answer three security questions, then click Next:
Default Windows 10 Pro 1909 ISO Desktop and Start Menu layout:
Default Windows 10 Pro 1909 ISO version (this is a VM):
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@Obsolesce leave the password blank to skip the security questions.
Then set the password after install.
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Did see something about Microsoft stopping the ability to create local accounts on Win10 soon.
Hopefully that will only apply to Home edition and not Pro
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@hobbit666 said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
Did see something about Microsoft stopping the ability to create local accounts on Win10 soon.
Hopefully that will only apply to Home edition and not Pro
They sorta already did, and @Obsolesce post seems to indicate they rolled it back.
If you were online with 1909 home edition, you could not make a local account - you had to reboot and take yourself offline (disable wifi/unplug ethernet), only then could you make a local account. -
@Dashrender
I only mention it as i know April/May there is another BIG update coming and i think this maybe when the change is coming. I've always installed clean and disconnected to give the offline option, but from what i've seen that being removed for all clean install. You'll have to use an account to setup -
@JaredBusch said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
@Obsolesce leave the password blank to skip the security questions.
Then set the password after install.
Good to know!
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@hobbit666 said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
Did see something about Microsoft stopping the ability to create local accounts on Win10 soon.
Hopefully that will only apply to Home edition and not Pro
For personal use (Win10 Pro), I use my MS Outlook account for Windows and benefit from all the app and services integration and federation/SSO. It's great. It's nice having all that working from the beginning, such as with OneDrive, Edge Chromium, Mail / Calendar / ToDo app, etc... It all just works so seamless across all my devices and Android phone using it's MS dock and apps.
For work use, it's a non-issue because of company IAM and MDM. There is never a case where a user has to go through those screens. After selecting a region and keyboard layout, they are brought to a company branded screen where they enter their work email and are then redirected to Okta login. From there, the PC is set up automatically according to company MDM and compliance policies, along with assigned apps and all that.
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@hobbit666 said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
@Dashrender
I only mention it as i know April/May there is another BIG update coming and i think this maybe when the change is coming. I've always installed clean and disconnected to give the offline option, but from what i've seen that being removed for all clean install. You'll have to use an account to setupThis is very unlikely to be true. Requiring internet access upon setup is just something I really can't see MS making a mandate. Harass the hell out of you during that offline setup, sure, but actually prevent setup from continuing if there is no online access - yeah no.
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@Dashrender said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
@hobbit666 said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
@Dashrender
I only mention it as i know April/May there is another BIG update coming and i think this maybe when the change is coming. I've always installed clean and disconnected to give the offline option, but from what i've seen that being removed for all clean install. You'll have to use an account to setupThis is very unlikely to be true. Requiring internet access upon setup is just something I really can't see MS making a mandate. Harass the hell out of you during that offline setup, sure, but actually prevent setup from continuing if there is no online access - yeah no.
Yeah, the number of installs that they'd force to Linux would be higher than they would accept.
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@Dashrender I did an install last weekend of a freshly created usb installer from MS website, and there was no option to create local for the home version.
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@computerchip said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
@Dashrender I did an install last weekend of a freshly created usb installer from MS website, and there was no option to create local for the home version.
Do not connect to the network during setup is the only way around that on a home install now.
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@JaredBusch said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
@computerchip said in Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account:
@Dashrender I did an install last weekend of a freshly created usb installer from MS website, and there was no option to create local for the home version.
Do not connect to the network during setup is the only way around that on a home install now.
Yep,
