{"id":75,"date":"2013-11-07T21:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:17:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:17:24","slug":"installing-windows-8-1-without-creating-a-microsoft-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/installing-windows-8-1-without-creating-a-microsoft-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Windows 8.1 without creating a Microsoft account"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just bought a new laptop and it came with Windows 8.0. I had very low expectations based on what I had heard about 8.0. Windows 7 on the other hand I quite like, but that was not available as an option as most laptops today seem to come bundled with Win 8.<\/p>\n

I have not yet gotten used to the new user interface (a main issue is the missing Start Menu), but I also ran into another nuisance when after installing all the normal Windows updates I upgraded to Windows 8.1. When the laptop first ran its set-up routines for Windows 8.0 there was an option to sign in using a Microsoft account, but there was also an option to just create a local account and for me the latter was the preferred method.<\/p>\n

It turns out that 8.1 is much more insistent on the user signing in with a Microsoft account and if you do not have one, you get the impression that you have to create one. I did not like this at all, so I googled it and found a simple workaround at http:\/\/www.infobyte.hr\/blog\/337\/windows-8-1-preview-how-to-install-without-microsoft-account-skip-microsoft-account\/<\/a>. I used the first method, namely to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click on Create New Account.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Instead of filling out all sorts of information about myself for the account, I clicked on a text at the bottom of the screen saying something like Continue with existing account<\/strong> (this might not be the exact wording).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This allowed me to continue with the set-up without creating an MS account. The blog post I linked to above lists two more ways of dodging Microsoft’s attempt to snare you.<\/p>\n

    I think it is very weasely of Microsoft to hide the fact that you can get around creating an account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just bought a new laptop and it came with Windows 8.0. I had very low expectations based on what I had heard about 8.0. Windows 7 on the other hand I quite like, but that was not available as an option as most laptops today seem to come bundled with Win 8. I have … Continue reading Installing Windows 8.1 without creating a Microsoft account<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axotron.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}