One of the most persistent annoyances for power users and privacy-minded installers is back: Windows 11 insists on an internet connection and a Microsoft Account during OOBE (Out‑Of‑Box Experience), but practical methods still exist to finish setup with a local, offline account. This feature...
Microsoft has quietly removed the last low-friction ways to create a purely local user during Windows 11’s initial setup, neutralizing the Shift+F10 command-line tricks and baking an account-first Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) into recent Insider preview builds.
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I installed Windows 11 from a nano‑sized 2.4 GB ISO and the finished system used just 8.36 GB on disk — a result that compresses a typical Windows 11 footprint to roughly two‑thirds smaller than a regular install, accomplished with the community project Nano11 Builder and a few post‑install...
I am currently using the Windows 11 (24H2) Insider Preview (Release Preview Channel) - Build 26100.1150 ISO but the autounattend.xml is not loading, is it the ISO issue? I installed the ISO from the official Microsoft website. I tried the same autounattend.xml on 23H2 and it works fine but I...
I am an amateur with the autounattend.xml. I have been able to successfully follow tutorials and create installs on multiple partition formatted hard drives.
So the question,
How do I setup the autounattend to clean 3 of the partitions created while leaving one partition intact, i.e. all the...
I have Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit (x86) , trying to install on x64 architecture (dual core atom proc). I am trying to boot from the DVD, with the Autounattend.xml file on a USB drive (Mushkin 8GB, light blinks when accessed, so I know it is being read from). I have also tried using the file...
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