Microsoft’s latest Insider update tightens the screws on Windows 11 setup by removing the easiest ways to create a local account during OOBE (Out‑Of‑Box Experience), but the story is more complicated than a single patch: determined users and imaging tools still have options, and the move exposes...
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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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