{"id":12498,"date":"2020-01-04T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=12498"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:51:25","slug":"windows-10-use-insider-program-with-a-local-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/01\/04\/windows-10-use-insider-program-with-a-local-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10: Use Insider Program with a Local Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/win102.jpg\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/04\/windows-10-use-insider-program-with-a-local-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]To test Windows Insider Preview build for Windows 10, Microsoft requires that users are joining the Windows Insider program. But there is a way to do that with a local account.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A German blog reader Al CiD has send me an e-mail mentions, that it's possible to test Windows 10 Insider Preview builds with a local user account. A developer has posted on GitHub the article <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220419021640\/https:\/\/github.com\/whatever127\/offlineinsiderenroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OfflineInsiderEnroll &#8211; A script to enable access to the Windows Insider Program on machines not signed in with Microsoft Account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>OfflineInsiderEnroll<\/em> is a simple Windows Command Prompt script to enable access to the Windows Insider Program on machines not signed in with Microsoft Account. The script is compatible with Windows 10 RS5 and later and requires administrative priviliges to run.<\/p>\n<p>According to the developer, the script takes advantage of undocumented <em>TestFlags<\/em> registry value. If this value is set to <em>0x20<\/em>, all access to online <em>Windows Insider<\/em> services gets disabled. Because of this, it's possible to set a own <em>Windows Insider Preview<\/em> configuration without being overriden by the contact to the service.<\/p>\n<p>Since Windows Update does not check if machine is actually enrolled to the program, users applying this script will get offered <em>Insider Preview<\/em> builds by just setting correct values in the registry. Bleeping Computer has published <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220810234844\/https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/how-to-join-the-windows-insider-program-with-a-local-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a> with a few more details how to use the script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]To test Windows Insider Preview build for Windows 10, Microsoft requires that users are joining the Windows Insider program. But there is a way to do that with a local account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[229,76],"class_list":["post-12498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-insider-preview","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}