As a tech reviewer setting up laptops frequently, I rely on a few essential Windows tweaks to save time, remove clutter, and ...

Well, darn. The bypassnro method was relatively simple, involving opening a command prompt window with Shift + F10 and entering oobe\bypassnro followed by an ipconfig /release command after restart.

But the most important one for enthusiasts and PC administrators is buried halfway down the list: This build removes a command prompt script called bypassnro, which up until now has been a ...

“We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11,” said Amanda Langowski and Brandon LeBlanc, heads of the Windows Insider Program.

"We're removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11," reads the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5516 release notes.

Microsoft cites security as one reason it’s making this change: We’re removing the bypassnro.cmd script from the build to enhance security and user experience of Windows 11.

Although it is still possible to invoke the OOBE\BYPASSNRO workaround, which will truly let you continue setup without being connected to the internet, there's also another easier and quicker ...

Software Operating Systems Windows Elon Musk finally says something we can all agree on: No one wants to have to log in with a Microsoft Account on Windows 11 ...

In other words, BypassNRO.cmd is still included in the public versions of the OS. But if this change holds, then expect it to disappear from all Windows 11 PCs later this year.

Note: There are some features of Windows 11 and its connected apps that require an online Microsoft account, so you may not be able to use them without logging in with a different account first.

You don't create a key named BypassNRO first. You could have also just run the one "reg add" command on your Win10 system and then looked at the registry to see it.