Funny thing is, I find myself forced to use the command prompt more in Windows than I do the terminal in Linux. And don’t get me started on the absolute nightmare that the windows registry is.
I know some folks on the SysAdmin discord mentioned it wasn’t working for them anymore. It also stopped working for me about 2 months ago. (I work in IT and set to up new computers fairly often)
But looking online real quick, several sources including Tom’s Hardware claim it still works. So I’m not sure what’s going on with it. Maybe your milage may vary?
Don’t connect to the internet.
Open a cmd window with F10 (maybe it’s shift-F10?) and type the following:
OOBE\\BYPASSNROYou can thank me later.
I thought we couldn’t use Linux because people don’t want to use a command prompt.
Funny thing is, I find myself forced to use the command prompt more in Windows than I do the terminal in Linux. And don’t get me started on the absolute nightmare that the windows registry is.
Guck you. I’ll thank you NOW.
I’m pretty sure they have removed this recently.
I used it to set up a company laptop less than a month ago.
Do you have a source? First time I’m hearing about it
I know some folks on the SysAdmin discord mentioned it wasn’t working for them anymore. It also stopped working for me about 2 months ago. (I work in IT and set to up new computers fairly often)
But looking online real quick, several sources including Tom’s Hardware claim it still works. So I’m not sure what’s going on with it. Maybe your milage may vary?
I definitely used it 2 months ago, maybe it changed since then, or maybe it depends on something.
And if you do connect to the Internet type ipconfig /release
Why?
If you connect to the Internet, windows thinks it’s good to go. By typing the cmd you’ll disconnect the connection and be able to use the bypass