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How to bypass windows 11 system requirements during installation on an old Laptop?
Installing Windows 11 on PC doesn't meet the minimum system requirements is not recommended and may result in compatibility issues. If you proceed with installing Windows 11, your PC will no longer be supported and won't be entitled to receive updates.
Read more here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-windows-11-on-devices-that-don-t-meet-minimum-system-requirements-0b2dc4a2-5933-4ad4-9c09-ef0a331518f1.
KapilArya Totally disagree. Windows 11 is just a rebranded version of Windows 10. I have installed Windows 11 on many machines that won't "update" simply by wiping the machine completely and installed from a USB boot device.
- Certainly, it's simple to do! Rufus is my preferred tool for this, and here’s a video for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/vFG7OhbEOug
JeremyEsbrandt it is not rebranded. Windows 11 has many things seperated from explorer / shell than Windows 10. It also offers advanced security features utilizing Hyper-V like VBS (Core Isolation), and Credential Theft protection (LSASS Protection). Just to name a few.
If you refer that all Windows OSes since NT4 have same roots and also W11 contains some of these including leftovers from XP, Vista, Win7 and Win8.1, yes that's unfortunately true.
Technically though it is more advanced. Not all of this just differentiates by a different UI.
If you check the improvements of Windows Server 2025 over Windows Server 2019 and 2022, many of these are in common with the Client OS.
If you intent to say it is a kind of "modded" OS, or reskin, then I cannot do anything but strongly disagreeing on this.Karl-WE Well, let me just say I have a USB device loaded with Windows 11 Pro. I have reimaged laptops that are old and it works. These are like Dell Latitude 7470's, 5250's, 7480's, 5240's, etc. You can't do the "update" but you can reimage the entire device with Win 11.
