{"id":210244,"date":"2025-04-01T06:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/microsofts-killing-script-used-to-avoid-microsoft-account-in-windows-11"},"modified":"2025-04-01T06:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:24:06","slug":"microsofts-killing-script-used-to-avoid-microsoft-account-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/microsofts-killing-script-used-to-avoid-microsoft-account-in-windows-11","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s killing script used to avoid Microsoft Account in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsofts-killing-script-used-to-avoid-microsoft-account-in-windows-11.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has removed the \u2018BypassNRO.cmd\u2019 script from Windows 11 preview builds, which allowed users to bypass the requirement to use a Microsoft Account when installing the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>This change was introduced in the latest Windows 11 Insider Dev preview build, which means it will likely be coming to production builds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11,\u201d reads the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/windows-insider\/2025\/03\/28\/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516 release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has removed the \u2018BypassNRO.cmd\u2019 script from Windows 11 preview builds, which allowed users to bypass the requirement to use a Microsoft Account when installing the operating system. This change was introduced in the latest Windows 11 Insider Dev preview build, which means it will likely be coming to production builds. \u201cWe\u2019re removing the bypassnro.cmd [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}