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> you need internet connection to even login

That's right. It sounds like a bug but this is Microsoft we're talking about here. They're probably brainstorming for ways to lock you from your own computer.

You can solve this problem by creating an offline account with Admin privileges after setting up Windows with your online account, but most users won't do that.




This doesn’t seem true. Doesn’t LSASS cache credentials for 30 days?


No idea. Maybe it cleared the cache when I asked to enter safe mode. Either way, relying on a cache to get root access doesn't seem right.




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