Yet another day, yet another Microsoft blunder.

I used the one before the 25th and installed it with Rufus to make a Local Account.

At this rate they may as well just put up a global errata saying that all Microsoft products may not function as intended. It's ridiculous how bad they have become in the past few years.

"accidentally"... love that comment..

well you know, at least they are working on the important stuff...

b1k3rdude"accidentally"... love that comment..

It's true but should be expanded to "Accidentally, a software company exists that breaks its own products every so often."

This is the incompetence into whose hands we put our computers and data.

Of course, Microsoft offers a workaround.

It requires a workaround, really? Seriously? I'll start by preparing a Windows 11 installation medium on something like 3333 floppy disks.



With a friendly smile,
Fred.

It's baffling to me how badly MS can fumble any attempt to implement some changes into something that already works without issues.

What a "classy" accident......................................

edit hmmmmmmmmmmmmm seems a lot bigger than win10 did

Fortunately I made an installation USB a couple of months ago. seems that I'm not going to delete it too soon

Catch 22 you can only use the Media Creation Tool if your on windows 11

also the new one is 10Mb bigger like all they had to do was point the old Media Creation Tool to 25H2

b1k3rdude"accidentally"... love that comment..

Well, they had accident in that tool actually starts in the first place.

Legacy1also the new one is 10Mb bigger like all they had to do was point the old Media Creation Tool to 25H2

Silly you.
Of course they need to add some malware code into it to spy you even more.
Plus of course some more do nothing loops...

Meh just download the ISO and use Rufus

AthloniteMeh just download the ISO and use Rufus

That's fine for card-carrying tech dorkwads. Not such a great approach for Joe Consumer or people with less robust Windows sysadmin expertise. Remember that not everyone on this planet is Grand Lord Supreme Egghead.

It's important to note that Microsoft themselves don't expect everyone to install ISOs on USB thumbdrives. That's why they offer multiple ways of upgrading Windows: the regular Windows Update process, Media Creation tool, Installation Assistant, ISOs, etc. It's not a one-size-fits-all thing.

Microwave oven die? Meh, just cook your own meal from scratch, fool. Refrigerator die? Meh, just grow your own veggies in a garden, raise your own livestock. You don't need a fridge.

Super genius.

ChomiqIt's baffling to me how badly MS can fumble any attempt to implement some changes into something that already works without issues.

Like many here you don't seem to understand that Microsoft simply doesn't give a sh!t anymore.

All of their competent Windows programmers left ten years ago and management replaced them with incompetents. And shortly thereafter Microshaft decided that it was too much effort/expense doing software QA when they realized that users would do it for free.

So Microsoft went from "build it, test it, ship it, patch it" to "build it, ship it, patch it", bypassing the costly "test it" step.

There is nothing new about this, anyone who uses Microsoft devices and services on a regular basis should recognize Microsoft's utter disdain for quality software engineering and anything remotely close to a software strategy. Look at how well they managed Windows Mobile.

They only built Azure into the behemoth and cash cow it is today because they looked around and saw everyone else getting into cloud computing and decided they needed to do the same. There is almost zero Microsoft-driven innovation in Azure. Any innovation in today's Azure comes from Azure customers.

@cvaldes little touchy there aren't you anybody would think you don't know how to use Rufus or google to find out how to do so.
and I do cook from scratch every night it's not fecking hard and I used to grow my own veggies in my old house but my current place doesn't have the space or landlord permission to do so

Athlonite@cvaldes little touchy there aren't you anybody would think you don't know how to use Rufus or google to find out how to do so.
and I do cook from scratch every night it's not fecking hard and I used to grow my own veggies in my old house but my current place doesn't have the space or landlord permission to do so

Look, MCD worked fine until Microsoft f-cked it up. There are longtime TPU community members who got caught in this and couldn't figure out why MCD stopped working all of a sudden.

YOU might know how to use Rufus to roll your own bootable USB installer stick with an ISO. So do I. But Microsoft has a responsibility to serve a bunch of people who can't/won't handle it. And not everyone in the Windows-using universe has people at their beck-and-call willing to provide this sort of assistance for free.

Just telling people to "fire up Rufus and roll your own" is myopic and missing the point. The point is that Microsoft shouldn't have broken MCD in the first place.

It's people like you who let Microsoft just slack off. They care less because people like you care less. Windows technically is not a free operating system. Whether you pay full retail, buy an OEM/bulk license, or use it because it was pre-installed by the hardware manufacturer (who bundled the OEM license fee into your hardware's price), you're still paying for Windows.

Lowering the bar for Microsoft will just encourage them to suck even more in the future. You are free to do this but I'm sorry that I will not be at your side.

cvaldesLook, MCD worked fine until Microsoft f-cked it up. There are longtime TPU community members who got caught in this and couldn't figure out why MCD stopped working all of a sudden.

YOU might know how to use Rufus to roll your own bootable USB installer stick with an ISO. So do I. But Microsoft has a responsibility to serve a bunch of people who can't/won't handle it. And not everyone in the Windows-using universe has people at their beck-and-call willing to provide this sort of assistance for free.

Just telling people to "fire up Rufus and roll your own" is myopic and missing the point. The point is that Microsoft shouldn't have broken MCD in the first place.

It's people like you who let Microsoft just slack off. They care less because people like you care less. Windows technically is not a free operating system. Whether you pay full retail, buy an OEM/bulk license, or use it because it was pre-installed by the hardware manufacturer (who bundled the OEM license fee into your hardware's price), you're still paying for Windows.

Lowering the bar for Microsoft will just encourage them to suck even more in the future. You are free to do this but I'm sorry that I will not be at your side.

And those most people your talking about probably aren't using the creation tool either to make bootable media either they'll most likely do an inplace upgrade from 10 to 11

The average Windows user probably doesn't have a clue what the media creation tool is, at most they'll be using the upgrade tool, or getting the extended Windows 10 updates, or tossing out their Windows 10 system for a new Windows 11 PC.
But we're tech enthusiasts here, so of course there will be recommendations here to use Rufus, and IMO it's one of the few ways to install W11 without it being a pain, as otherwise Microsoft is trying to prevent people from making a local account.
Microsoft doesn't give a crap about people educating themselves to find workarounds, Microsoft is going to make the OS worse because the enshittification is being done on purpose.

lol there are lots of tools to replace that "media creation tool"... I used to love that in Win 7 era where it have had a NORMAL name like USB/DVD tool not some stupid "media":kookoo::rolleyes:
these days when win setup likely needs some "tweaks" for better customization, I'd use 3rd party tools.
And typical "housewife/houseman" who googles everything (or yeah, chatgpts these days IDRC:rolleyes:) doesn't need this very much as when troubles will come this kindda person are anyway prone to call out some "IT support human being".;):D

AleXXX666lol there are lots of tools to replace that "media creation tool"... I used to love that in Win 7 era where it have had a NORMAL name like USB/DVD tool not some stupid "media":kookoo::rolleyes:
these days when win setup likely needs some "tweaks" for better customization, I'd use 3rd party tools.
And typical "housewife/houseman" who googles everything (or yeah, chatgpts these days IDRC:rolleyes:) doesn't need this very much as when troubles will come this kindda person are anyway prone to call out some "IT support human being".;):D

"Microsoft Media Creation tool isn't working, what should I use? Oh what's that? Rufus? Wait, I can bypass TPM requirement?! I can create local account?!"