It’s been a quite long time since Microsoft rolled out Windows 11 for the public and it came with one tiny issue for those, who do not want to use the internet from the first day or have a Microsoft account. If you use the Windows 11 Pro version, you may not face this problem, although recent Insider builds suggest that Microsoft is about to make it mandatory to use a Microsoft account while installing Windows 11 Pro too! You may not have a Microsoft account or internet connection during the installation – or you may not want to use it! You can bypass the Microsoft account requirement for installing Windows 11 by closing a simple process named Network Connection Flow. There are multipleo methods to do that, and this article contains both of them.
How to install Windows 11 Home without Microsoft Account
To install Windows 11 Home without Microsoft Account or an Internet connection, follow these steps:
How to bypass Windows 11 Online Account requirements
First, you need to go through the regular installation process. At one point, it asks for an internet connection if you are not connected already.
Instead of connecting to Wi-Fi or any other internet sources, press Shift+F10 to open the Command Prompt on your screen. Once it is opened, enter taskmgr and press the Enter button to open the Task Manager on your computer.
By default, it displays only running tasks. You need to click the More details button to display the fully functional Task Manager. In the Task Manager, you need to find the Network Connection Flow process, select it and click the End task button.
In other words, you need to close the Network Connection Flow process from running in the background. Next, you can close all the windows of Task Manager and Command Prompt to continue with the Windows 11 Home installation process.
For your information, you can close the Network Connection Flow process without opening the Task Manager on your computer. In that case, you need to press Shift+F10 to open the Command Prompt and execute the following command: Once done, you can close the Command Prompt window and continue with the installation process.
You then need to enter your name, password, security questions, etc., to create a Local Account to install Windows 11 Home. For your information, there is another method you can use to install Windows 11 Home without an internet connection. In this case, you need to use a different command to block the internet connection. Read:
How to bypass Windows 11 Online Account requirements?How to install Windows 11 on unsupported CPU/RAM hardware?How to bypass Windows 11 TPM requirement?How to bypass Windows 11 Secure Boot requirement?
How to install Windows 11 Home without internet connection
To install Windows 11 Home without an internet connection, follow these steps: To learn more about these steps, continue reading. First, you need to make sure that you are on the screen where it asks you to connect to an internet source. If so, press the Shift+F10 button to open the Command Prompt. Then, enter this command:
It will restart your computer and open the same installation wizard. Here you need to click on the I don’t have internet button.
For your information, Windows 11 Home doesn’t display this option by default. Once you click on that option, you need to choose another option called Continue with limited setup.
Next, enter your local account details and continue with the installation. Related read: How to install Windows 11 Pro with a Local Account.
How to install Windows 11 Home with Local account?
To install Windows 11 Home with Local account, you need to follow the above-mentioned steps. If you are connected to an internet source, you need to close the Network Connection Flow process, which runs in the background. For that, press Shift+F10 to open the Command Prompt and enter taskmgr command to open the Task Manager. Then, find the Network Connection Flow process, right-click on it, and select the End task option. After that, close all windows and continue with the installation process.
How to bypass Windows 11 Microsoft account requirements?
To bypass Windows 11 Home’s Microsoft account requirements, you can go through the above-mentioned solution. For that, press Shift+F10 to open the Command Prompt and enter this command: taskkill /F /IM oobenetworkconnectionflow.exe. For your information, it will close the Network Connection Flow process. That’s all! Hope this guide helped.
