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No. This will produce a fully fledged GUI Windows install. All this is doing is bypassing the GUI install in favor of manually partitioning + formatting the disks and applying the system image to the partition, then skipping the OOBE (Out of Box Experience) so it can be configured normally with just a standard local account.

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If you create a USB install disk with Rufus, it will automatically allow you to create a local account which is pretty useful

There are easier ways of accomplishing this.

There are, but by my personal experience those other ways might stop working every other Windows update and need tweaking/changing.

Yes, it is a continuous fight with Microsoft, though.

They are pretty hostile to their end-users.

end-users don't install windows

Most users don't install Windows. Power users and tinkerers are still users.

...suggestions/ info/ links?

Personally I would follow Microsoft's guide on partitioning [1] mostly, except the recovery partition which I skip creating. If Windows needs it they will auto create it again anyways in the next major update.

Then I use WinNTSetup [2], just point it to where the Windows setup files are, and which partition is the boot partition (EFI partition) and which partition is to become C:.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...

[2] https://msfn.org/board/topic/149612-winntsetup-v531/

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