Installing Windows 11 on normal/older computers

[rodr]

This is about VirtualBox but should be applicable to PCs as well:

https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/post/install-microsoft-windows-11-on-virtualbox

In my case I had a licensed copy of Win 10 in a virtual machine and wanted to port the license to Win 11. It would not auto-update due to no TPM.

I did this by "cloning" the VM to preserve the hardware UUID (and other machine attributes), then booting it up with the current Win 11 ISO (adding registry settings as noted above) and telling the installer to remove all the partitions and install fresh. The new VM retained the original license; of course I had to reinstall apps and copy over data from the old VM.

Enjoy!

 

[rodr]

By the way you do still need a fairly recent CPU.

Intel
AMD

 

[TylerW]

There are a number of ways you can force the install, but you don't get any patches or hotfixes, which are pretty important in the early days of an OS.

My laptop passed muster so I upgraded there because that's a less critical computer and I was happy to poke around with it. I'll need new hardware for my desktop machine to upgrade but I can't be bothered until you can move the taskbar.

 

[rodr]

There are a number of ways you can force the install, but you don't get any patches or hotfixes, which are pretty important in the early days of an OS.

So far I seem to be getting all updates.

My laptop passed muster so I upgraded there because that's a less critical computer and I was happy to poke around with it. I'll need new hardware for my desktop machine to upgrade but I can't be bothered until you can move the taskbar.

Like this?

 

[TylerW]

Like this?

That just justifies the taskbar contents over to the left. I want the whole taskbar to be on the right side of the screen.

The most important application on my computer, Adobe Premiere, makes poor use of vertical screen real estate, so I want all of my vertical pixels. And I hate auto-hide.

There's a regedit hack to reposition it, but it also breaks the taskbar, so its not really a good solution.

 

[rodr]

Updates continue to work without any issues. BTW my host OS is Linux Mint. Mostly I use Windows for software development testing, and running my scanner software and Adobe Acrobat which do not have Linux equivalents.

Interestingly, I can also continue to use the original Win 10 VM (not at the same time of course) and nothing complains. Updates are good there too.