{"id":58609,"date":"2022-07-01T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T21:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=a0c8b0dcb1a03fc397a9d03495ca2ec7"},"modified":"2022-07-01T17:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T21:32:51","slug":"usb-installer-tool-removes-windows-11s-microsoft-account-requirements-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58609","title":{"rendered":"USB installer tool removes Windows 11\u2019s Microsoft account requirements (and more)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/135047\/usb-installer-tool-removes-windows-11s-microsoft-account-requirements-and-more\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: The OSNews take is _exactly_ what I was thinking when I saw this thing go by.<\/div><blockquote><p>An easy workaround for this requirement is the <a href=\"https:\/\/rufus.ie\/en\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rufus USB formatting tool<\/a>, which can create USB install media for Windows and all kinds of other operating systems. Rufus has already offered some flags to remove Windows 11&rsquo;s system requirement checks from the installer, removing the need for clunky Windows Registry edits and other workarounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pbatard\/rufus\/releases\/tag\/v3.19_BETA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">But the beta of version 3.19<\/a> will also <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/06\/usb-installer-tool-removes-windows-11s-microsoft-account-requirements-and-more\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remove the Microsoft account requirement for new installs<\/a>, making it easy to set up a new Windows PC with a traditional local account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The hoops people jump through to be allowed to use a mediocre operating system when better alternatives are abundant.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easy workaround for this requirement is the Rufus USB formatting tool, which can create USB inst&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}