It used to be possible to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account using the bypassnro command. But in the latest update Microsoft has removed this possibility.
However it is still possible to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account and with just a local account.
When you reach the point, during the installation, where you have to select your country, press [Shift] + [F10] to open the command prompt.
Here enter the command start ms-cxh:localonly, and create your local account.
A customer came to me who had bought a second hand laptop. He only had a user password, but not the local administrator password.
Without the local administrator password he was not able to install new programs on his laptop.
I tried several ways to retrieve the local administrator password. The common solution is to reinstall Windows, but the customer did not want that.
Then I read about 'Hiren's BootCD'. When you download it to a bootable USB and start your computer with it, it offers a lot of tools.
One of them offers the possibility to clear the local administrator password.
