Seems as though MS is closed bypassnro loophole to bypass MS acct requirement in Beta

Bree said:

Me, I think Bitlocker is overkill for a home PC. I set mine up with local accounts and my first act on signing in is to turn off device encryption

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I turn it off, too. I have no need for it.

- On a company machine, I can see where it needs to be turned on.

- On a personal laptop that one travels around a lot with, I can also see where it's probably a good idea to turn it on.

But for a computer that's stationary and never leaves my house, it's overkill. The big fear then is either losing the key, OR the (old) key for some reason no longer works. Then you're screwed.

No thanks.

cheaterslick said:

I turn it off, too. I have no need for it.

- On a company machine, I can see where it needs to be turned on.

- On a personal laptop that one travels around a lot with, I can also see where it's probably a good idea to turn it on.

But for a computer that's stationary and never leaves my house, it's overkill. The big fear then is either losing the key, OR the (old) key for some reason no longer works. Then you're screwed.

No thanks.

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I don't use secure boot, device encryption or bitlocker

BrianInEngland said:

I don't use secure boot, device encryption or bitlocker

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I currently have CSM enabled on this system. I don't like it but I like the idea of keeping my data safe. Of course nothing is 100% safe but this platform has not been blessed with Microsoft's Win 11 compliance protocol despite the fact that it has TPM2 enabled. You might say that I'm the guy who fell through the cracks. Sadly, with secure boot enabled and Other OS checked my system still refuses to afford me dual boot to Linux with these settings. This is terribly annoying because if I have to keep changing settings to boot to Linux then it defeats the purpose in running a multi-boot PC for me. Admittedly, I am also running Windows 7 Ultimate on this build and it boots fine to that. The whole thing smacks of a monopoly on my hardware and I resent it.

Currently working on a newer build that is Windows 11 compliant. I rather doubt it will make a difference.

glasskuter said:

I always thought that MS could and would at some point shut down all the loopholes we've been using to bypass a MS account as well as those used to install 11 on older hardware. If this article is to be believed, it appears this may be the company's first step.... the bypassnro command is disabled in the latest beta build.

Windows 11 blocks ability to skip Microsoft Account during setup

The popular "bypassnro" command, which let users to skip connecting to the Internet and signing into a Microsoft Account, is being removed.

www.windowscentral.com

The way I read it, as of right now, the script can still be enabled into a system by adding the registry key - HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f shutdown /r /t 0″
By the time this gets to the release channel that may no longer work. Probably will, though, as MS is famous for taking things away a little bit at a time rather than everything all at once. I'm sure they feel it's less of a shock their customer base by doing it that way. Doesn't change that ultimately, their demand is met whether their customer base likes it or not.

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@glasskuter

Instead of bypassnro, try this . . .

SHIFT + F10
on command prompt type:
start ms-cxh:localonly



Enjoy!
Good Luck