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.Yes. But you have to have good eyesight or good reading glasses as they like to hide it. When you get to the screen where they REALLY REALLY want you
[See the full post at: Patch Lady – can you set up a local – no Microsoft account on 2004?]
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Simple way – during install don’t attach LAN cable.
Sometimes with attached LAN cable there is no option for local account, even in corners, checked for several installations. Then create online account, after installation ends create new local account and delete this account.
Security updates are released by Microsoft on Patch Tuesday (the second Tues. of the month, or “B” week).
The updates released later in the month (third/fourth weeks = “C”/”D” weeks) are Install-optional non-security patches meant for testing coming changes. We do not recommend installing them outside a testing environment.
Businesses are running the Windows OS in Azure VMs, Citrix, etc. And MS is financially punishing businesses for running Windows and MS Apps in VMs on other than MS Web Servers.
Small businesses, maybe. Before I retired at the end of May, 2019, I was a contract Geologist for a multi-national mining company that traces its roots back to 1904. They were using their own cloud before “the cloud” was a thing. Their databases are in multi-petabytes. They have multiple redundant server farms in a number of locations.
They have local server farms at each mining location to run control systems. There would be way too much lag to run these control systems from the cloud. They have literally thousands of workstations/desktops/laptops. They transitioned from IBM mainframes/dumb terminals to Windows NT4 to Windows 7, building out their server farms along the way, skipping every other Windows version in between.
They are still on Windows 7, and just now beginning the rollout to Windows 10, which will take about 3 months. They won’t be using Azure, or any other commercial cloud, and they won’t be running any VM’s. Their connections between locations are fibre-optic, much of which was installed by contractors, not the phone company. Only their international connections run through commercial trunk lines.
I was recently talking to a friend who works in Mine Planning, and he told me he was assigned the task of coordinating the Windows 10 transition with the IT department. IT’s policy is to swap out computers. Mine Planning’s policy is to make sure the new computer does every little thing that needs to be done on par with the Windows 7 machines first, so they won’t give up the Windows 7 machines until the Windows 10 machines have proven themselves to be rock-solid.
That little disagreement got pushed up the chain of command a couple of levels. Mine Planning won the battle, because they provide the data upon which nearly every other department in the entire organization relies.
The company employs ~12,000 people, and probably half (or very nearly) of those employees use a desktop/workstation/laptop for their job. They’re all getting new machines (by the truckload) in the transition to Windows 10.
I somehow doubt that Microsoft will have any footing from which to punish them for doing things their own way, running Windows in hardware, not VM’s, using their own cloud, and not a commercial service.
Even adding a local User under Accounts in the Win 10 Settings screen is annoying. It demands multiple answers to security questions as well as the classic “hint”. Given the activation info is stored online it is not a stretch that they are creating most of a Microsoft Account with this personal info and using it for tracking and telemetry.
At least the classic CMD method still works with none of the above required.
Open CMD as Admin:
net user “username” “password” /add
if want it as Admin level:
net localgroup administrators “username” /add
Yes the ” ” are required.
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