Using this workaround, you can install Windows 11 Home without an Internet connection or Microsoft Account. You can use a Local Account!

The Windows 11 out-of-the-box experience prompts you to sign into Windows with a Microsoft account, but you can skip it in a few steps.

A local Windows account requires you to set up three security questions. Here's how this works in Windows 10 and 11.

Microsoft makes it difficult to set up Windows without a Microsoft account, but it's still possible if you know the right tricks. Here's how to get it done in Windows 10 and 11.

You'll then be prompted to setup a local account and can use that for logging into Windows 11 once it's finished.

Here is how you can install Windows 11 without entering a Product Key and activate it later. You have two ways to do this and both work fine!

Happy hackers find a new exploit in the Windows 11 installer for bypassing the Microsoft account requirement.

Windows 11 is great, but its seemingly mandatory Microsoft account requirement isn't. There's a way around that, but it's very sneaky and hard to find.

Microsoft makes it difficult to set up Windows without a Microsoft account, but it's still possible if you know the right tricks. Here's how to get it done in Windows 10 and 11.

But then you can input all your preferences for the install as you wish, before being whisked through to the fully functioning Windows 11— without a connected Microsoft account.

Update to Rufus boot tool lets you create a local user during your Windows 11 install ...