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Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Airplane mode. Don't connect to internet

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then you can't proceed at all, and the error message doesn't even explain it

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For me, that bypassed the email account linking altogether.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can assume that the region may make a difference

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This was in Seattle.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Mine was in the EU, and with a language restricted version, too

[–] Cyth@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I believe this does not work for Home. You can bypass it in Pro like this though. Unless something has changed I am not aware of.