Thank you. But I believe that this unattended.xml file can be utilized when the machine is reimaged.

There's no other way to bypass that after windows is already installed?

I learned how to bypass the OOBE by either
1) creating a provision file using the Windows Configuration Designer, put it on a usb, then insert usb into target computer while computer on OOBE
2)...

wmic /namespace:\\root\wmi PATH MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature get CurrentTemperature


It seems this used to work but it doesn't anymore with the current version of Win 10 and 11. My use case is...

Thank you Brink!
Yes, I guess individual sites make sense.
Good on you guys for listening to the forum users!

What happened to www.windowsq.com btw?
Just say this post, tried to go that site, it is not up

Hey Brink,

Apparently for people who has "Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise", they can run this in cmd:
reg add HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\16.0\common\officeupdate /v updatebranch...

Wow, you are fast. Yea, I just saw that! Thanks for pointing me there.

Though, I wonder if you can still use this batch method to achieve the same thing. I see that the task does
/c start...

Sorry, the context is I am using this bat script to run cmd as admin, and paring the output shortcut to this context menu .reg hack.

While it works and it opens cmd, it does not change to current...

Thanks Matthew Wai

By the way, is there a way to cd /d to current directory after running cmd.exe?

Thank you

Brink, your bat script worked well. Just posting to show my appreciation. Thanks!