Comment on You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users

remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that possible on Windows 11?

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  • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. When installing and it asks for your email address just use no@thankyou.com then type anything in for the password. It will fail then you can enter a local account.

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    • planish@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      BRB, buying thankyou.com and enjoying my several million computers.

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      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How many emails do you think contoso.com gets daily? I’ve used na@contoso.com hundreds of times for random shit that will get used for 5 minutes and never again

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. I had to do that on my latest reinstall. I had to create a local account after the install and log out of my MS account. It really tried to force backups, which is super annoying.

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    • Frisbeedude@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is it still possible to install Winndows 11 without network connection? It was the optimal solution for local account Windows back in the day.

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      • Tsuroth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes it is, at least for now. Shift + f10 to open cmd in the OOBE, then “OOBE \BYPASSNRO”

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      • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I quickly tried, but I gave up as I just needed the install done. It didn’t occur to me to pull the network cable as that may have worked. If I remember what I was reading at the time correctly, it will take a bit for the option to show to do an offline install if you don’t have a network connection. (I could be completely wrong on that! It’s been a couple of months already.)

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      • Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You can get the Windows 11 ISO and mount/image a drive with it using Rufus which will let you disable telemetry and build a local account into the image IIRC

        Hell you can even make a “mobile” windows install and have windows on an external drive with Rufus

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You could also use Linux. I mean you’re starting to hack your machine just as much as a Linux user.

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• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You also can’t use a work or school account, according to Microsoft:

  Important: You must use a personal Microsoft account with Windows Backup. Work or school Microsoft accounts won’t work.

  There is also no way to use the backup app with local storage, like an external hard drive; you can ONLY back up to OneDrive with this.

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