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Preferably from 2020 onwards and without the need for a mandatory product key/Microsoft account, I've already had a lot of headaches because of these two "casualities"!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Go to the download page on Microsoft's site, change users agent to macos or iOS and safari and you can download the ISO directly.

If you are upgrading from 10 you can just mount the ISO and run the setup file. If you need to make a bootable USB use Rufus.

DISCONNECT FROM THE INTERNET AND DO NOT CONNECT UNTIL YOU ARE ON THE DESKTOP LOGGED INTO A LOCAL ACCOUNT

For local account creation, when oobe setup starts hit shift f10 and in the cmd prompt type oobe\bypassnro and press enter. When it prompts for a network connection choose I don't have internet.

[–] Tinkerer 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

+1 to this, you don't have to activate. You get an activation watermark at the bottom right hand corner, not a big deal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Just use the Microsoft Activation Scripts. Microsoft literally tells you to use them if there's a problem with your product key.