Setting up someone else’s WIn11 new laptop. Microsoft has disabled the two ways I knew about to set it up with a local only account.
The methods described in the linked article no longer work. Anyone know any others?
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-without-microsoft-account
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