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> The easiest way to do it on a PC you just took out of the box is to press Shift+F10 during the setup process to bring up a command prompt window, typing OOBE\BYPASSNRO, rebooting, and then clicking the "I don't have Internet" button when asked to connect to a Wi-Fi network.

The easiest way!

Windows is lost…

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AFAICR, You don't have to reboot the machine. You can press `Shift+F10` again and run `ipconfig \release`. I could be wrong.

There are also some email ids (e.g. no@email.net ) in the sign up fields which allows you to create local accounts.

Not that these workarounds excuse all this user hostile behavior.

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