YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs

https://thelemmy.club/post/37647905

For those who care, at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10

CMD will open

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.

Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.

Next type “ net user Prefferedusername/active:yes” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.

Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.

Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” and press enter.

Next type “regedit” and press enter.

This opens registry editor navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE”

Delete DefaultAccountAction, DefaultAccountSAMName, and DefaultAccountSID

Right click on LaunchUserOOBE and rename it to SkipMachineOOBE and make sure the value is set to 1.

Close registry editor and type shutdown /r /t 0.

I am usually not that guy, but honestly, why not just install Linux Mint at this point

Because some people still require windows for what ever reason and also it’s fun to resist corporate bullshit by spitting in their face.

Personally I switched to Bazzite for my gaming rigs and Mint for everything else, but I wont judge anyone who wants to stay on windows despite the hostility microsoft has for its user base and I say more power to them.

Those who stand defiant in the face of overwhelming odds are exactly the sort of folk I like.

resist corporate bullshit by spitting in their face.

Resist corporate bullshit by eschewing the free, non-corporate option – which, because it’s open, gets better the more people use it – in favor of continuing to use the exact same corporate product but with an abstruse, hacky workaround that 0.001% of the userbase will use and will probably be plugged by this time next week. That’ll show those corpo fucks who’s boss. ✊Ⓐ”

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