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[–] Katzastrophe@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)
[–] mouse@midwest.social 15 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Unless I missed something, the article states as follows

Another method of bypassing the account lockdown still exists. You simply have to enter OOBE\BYPASSNRO in the command prompt during the Windows 11 setup process, which allows you to skip the connection to the Internet and thus also the link to a Microsoft account.

[–] Katzastrophe@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Tried that a few months ago with a factory new machine and it did not work. Though it might work on Pro machines

[–] echutaa@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You just need quotes on it, ms fucked up the directory traversal “oobe/bypassnro.cmd” worked for me setting up a user machine yesterday

[–] Katzastrophe@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

Of course they did, urg

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