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Windows

Installation​

  • To skip Microsoft account login, when you reach to the login step, press Shift + F12 to open a command prompt, then run start ms-cxh:localonly and create a local account. (source)
    • OOBE\BYPASSNRO used to work for me but it no longer works, even with the Remove requirement for an online Microsoft account option enabled in Rufus when creating the installation media.

Shrinking hiberfil.sys​

Windows uses C:\hiberfil.sys for Hibernate, Fast Startup, and some other features on the same space.

Since I don't use Hibernate or Sleep in my PC, I set powercfg /h /type reduced to keep Fast Startup working. See powercfg options for more info.

powercfg /a                      # what this machine actually supports
powercfg /h /type reduced        # keep Fast Startup, drop Hibernate
note

With Fast Startup enabled, "Shut down" is not a cold boot — hardware and drivers don't fully re-initialize, only "Restart" does. Worth remembering when testing whether a hardware fault reproduces from a clean state, since a shutdown will appear to preserve the broken state.