Solved Rufus 4.9 Windows 11 Install Local User Account

I am Quite Conversant with Using Iso's in Ventoy.
It is a Very Handy Tool to have.
Amoung Many things, Installing Windows from an Iso is so much more Easy.
The Current Procedure of Installing Windows 11 from Microsoft which by default Forces you to Use a User Account, is Totally Unaceptible .
If you Pay for the Windows Key, you should be given the Choice to Install Windows with either a Local Account or a Online Account.
And not be Forced for just the Online Account.
Now, RUFUS to the Rescue.
Rufus 4.9 has a very Handy set of Tweaks that can really make your installation much more Pleasant.
At the Bottom of Rufus, where you Click on Finish, Up Pops this Magic set of Tweaks ( see my Attachment ).
And one of those enables you to Bypass the User Account and Use a Local User Account.
I have one small Problem with that System.
For me to be able to Supply an ISO to Ventoy, I have Make an ISO from the USB Flash Drive that Rufus just Created.
Am I missing something or is there another way to get Rufus to Output an ISO instead of using a Flash Drive.
Up until now what I have been doing is Using Ntlite to Load the Flash Drive and then make an ISO from it.

No one hates the default option more than me of using a MS account and getting one's wagon automatically hitched to onedrive without his knowlwdge or permission. However, when one owns a license key, it only gives him the right to use windows, but he does not own it. MS does. They can do what they want to with it. As users, we do what we gotta do to make it useable for us. Right now, we can jump thru hoops to change this or alter that ONLY because MS has left the doors open for us to do so. Once those doors are closed, and it's my opinion they eventually will be, we will have to adapt to the MS way or seek another OS.

Yes Rufus has had this option for quite some time now. Right now one can also enter a command during install that accomplishes the same thing if his install media was not created using Rufus.

you could transfer/copy the complete contents of the Rufus USB drive over to a folder and then create a ISO of that image within that folder.
then transfer the ISO image to Ventoy.

best of luck, Steve ..

When you use Rufus to customize a Windows ISO, all it's really doing is creating a hidden unattended file for you. That's it. You can duplicate this functionality by copying that file to another ISO.

1. Run Rufus once to create a new USB, using the Windows options you want.

2. Copy\sources\$OEM$\$$\Setup\unattend.xmlfrom the Rufus drive, and save it to a local folder asautounattend.xml.

3. When you're in NTLite, import this file in Post-Setup so it gets included on the ISO image. File / Add / Before logon (Machine) -> autounattend.xml. Under the Mode column, check it's "ISO". Change the Destination column path to\autounattend.xml.



4. If you're not using NTLite, then copy autounattend.xml to the root folder where your ISO distribution is before you use whatever tool that creates an ISO file from the distribution folder.

I did a little Google search reveals that apparently Rufus can also create an ISO from the USB flash drive. So first use it to patch the Windows 11 ISO and create the USB flash drive, then use it the other way around, to write the patched USB flash drive in a new ISO. Just copy that ISO in your Ventoy disk and voila! It is local time 00:55 and I must go to bed, no time to investigate how this is done. I will have a look tomorrow and post results.

Thanks ( garlin ) , I will try your procedure when I get home next week, many thanks.
And Thanks to everyone else.