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Microsoft Blocked Every Windows 11 Account Bypass Except the Most Boring Link on Its Own Page

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We tested a new Windows 11 Home ISO and found that clicking the small Learn More link on the Microsoft account sign-in page skips straight to local account setup, no commands or registry edits required.
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Microsoft left a loophole to install a Windows 11 operating system with a local account at its most visible location. This does not require any complex manipulation: as found in Windows Latest, it is sufficient to click on the Learnmore link on the authorisation screen, and then the installer will send it to create the local account. Read further...

Windows 11 Home can currently be set up again without a Microsoft account: An inconspicuous link on the login page of the setup jumps directly to the creation of a local account. Command line and registry intervention are completely omitted.

As you know, Microsoft keeps blocking new ways to set up Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and only with a local account. But now an incrediblely simple trick has been discovered, with which you can actually easily bypass the account requirement for Windows 11. For the newly discovered trick, you don't need complicated workarounds, command line commands and even manipulated installation files (you can read more about the known possibilities…

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As you know, Windows 11 requires you to create a Microsoft account at the time of installation. Yet, a three-word link on the login screen is enough to avoid it and stay local.

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One place in the installer allows you to create a local account without logging in to Microsoft's offices. A successful attempt to achieve this was made in the Home edition, but it's not yet known whether it will work on absolutely every Windows variant.

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winfuture.de broke the news on Sunday, September 13, 2026.
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