{"id":439,"date":"2022-07-04T19:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techfragments.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2022-07-04T19:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T19:47:50","slug":"rufus-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/rufus-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidestep Windows 11 Install Microsoft Account Requirement With Rufus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2022\/06\/07\/releasing-windows-11-version-22h2-to-the-release-preview-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows 11 22H2<\/a> and on, getting Windows set up on a new device will require you to have a Microsoft account. Previous to this new policy, Windows 11 only required a Microsoft account for Windows 11 Home installations. Now, both Windows 11 Home and Pro will have the mandatory Microsoft account sign-in to set up new devices.<\/p>\n<p>But there could be a workaround for that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rufus.ie\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rufus<\/a>, a USB formatting utility can additionally be used to create installation media for Windows, Linux distributions, and other operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Rufus 3.16 included an unofficial workaround for people up against the TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot restrictions when doing a clean install of Windows 11. The upcoming version, Rufus 3.18, will also allow you to get around the restrictions for in-place upgrades.<\/p>\n<h2>Rufus 3.19 Beta<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pbatard\/rufus\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rufus 3.19 Beta<\/a> was released. It adds a new selection dialog for Windows 11 setup customization that has options for making a bootable Windows 11 USB install drive. You can have it modify the installer to skip all collection questions by auto-selecting \u2018Don\u2019t allow\u2019 or \u2018Refuse,\u2019 and removes the requirement for a Microsoft account in Windows 11 22H2 (if you also disconnect all network devices during installation).<\/p>\n<p>Rufus can also deactivate the Secure Boot and TPM checks, allowing Windows 11 to be installed on most 64-bit PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Rumor has it that Microsoft plans to launch Windows 11 v 22H2 this fall sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Windows 11 22H2 and on, getting Windows set up on a new device will require you to have a Microsoft account. Previous to this new policy, Windows 11 only required a Microsoft account for Windows 11 Home installations. Now, both Windows 11 Home and Pro will have the mandatory Microsoft account sign-in to set&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}