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Originally Posted by ksa8907
I thought you could still install WIN11 without all that crap, but with lower security features?
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You can install Windows 11 on just about anything if you know how. If you just attempt to install it on a computer that doesn't have those features or doesn't have an "acceptable processor" or doesn't have "enough RAM" then it won't install. What you have to do is know how to access Windows Registry durring the install and then add or change some registry keys so it won't check for those things durring the rest of the install. Like I said, I put Windows 11 on a computer from 2006, and that's the way I did it.
If you put Windows 11 on a computer with unsupported hardware then, at least in my experience, it won't register with your activation key and will remind you the hardware isn't supported from time to time. If Windows 10 is anything to go by, that may not be such a bad thing. With Windows 10 you can just keep using your computer without a valid and activated copy of Windows. You get a wallpaper with an "unactivated" water mark, and that's about it, which you can even change if you know how. Windows 11 may work the same way, allowing you to use your computer normally.
But there's always that "what if." "What if" they push an update that makes Windows 11, or some important app or feature stop working? Something else to keep in mind is Windows 11 now requires you to sign in with a Microsoft account. If you don't have and don't want a Microsoft account then only Windows 11 Pro, which costs more, is the only way to access Windows 11 without the account that I know of.
But if you want to play it the way Microsoft is telling us, then:
- You need a certain newer processer from their list, which makes some computers that are only 2 years old right now not compatible like my Microsoft Surface Go.
- You need 4GB of RAM. For an example the 2006 computer I have was limited to 3.75GB.
- You need a TPM module, UEFI and Secureboot, which is only found or possible on newer computers.
- And you'll need a Microsoft account unless you don't mind purchasing a copy of Windows 11 Pro.