Next type “ net user Prefferedusername/active:yes” and press enter.

A space is needed before the slash on this command, right? And no space before net.

I am usually not that guy, but honestly, why not just install Linux Mint at this point

Windows users: "I don't want to swap to Linux, you have to follow arcane instructions from the Internet and use the terminal to do basic tasks"

Also Windows users: "Now here is how you add a local user:"

at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10.

CMD will open.

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.

Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.

Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.

Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the “U” is capitalized) and press enter.

Next type “regedit” and press enter.

This opens registry editor, navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE”

Delete “DefaultAccountAction”, “DefaultAccountSAMName”, and “DefaultAccountSID”

Right click on “LaunchUserOOBE” and rename it to “SkipMachineOOBE” and make sure the value is set to “1”.

Close registry editor and type “shutdown /r /t 0”

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add”

Using backticks instead of quotation marks is the ideal way to document technical instructions like this here:

Type net user Prefferedusername /add (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type

net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add and press enter.

Type `net user Prefferedusername /add` (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.Next type

`net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add` and press enter.

Honestly in my opinion just pirate windows ltsc/iot ltsc/server ltsc editions

I've been doing this in command prompt:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

shutdown/r /t 0

After reboot it lets you choose "I don't have internet" and you can continue with creating a local account.

I thought they started blocking that work around.

Also +1 for describing things like the quotes and preferred username.

We had a guy doing remote file copy on a Unix system. Hr was given a sample like:

Scp john@server2:/data/incoming/filename.prt /home/john/files

He tried 5 times then complained to IT that the system couldn't find the file to transfer.

IT realized he wasn't replacing filename with his filename he just assumed the server new which file he wanted by typing filename. Lol.

Had a user given instructions to delete log data in C:/users/myusername/logs

User replies to IT: my system does not have a folder called "myusername"

And same people are complaining that Linux is difficult to install..