Installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, while keeping apps.

anotherquestion

Hi folks,

I have an almost fifteen year old Desktop, had had a few upgrades, SSD, Ram, and is running well, An Athlon 945 quad core CPU, does everything I want to do at the moment and isn't that slow.

I have dual boot, running windows 10, but also have installed a clean install of windows 11 a few years ago using Rufus, as it is unsupported hardware.

I think that was the only way at the time to do a clean install with existing apps on my pc to windows 11.

Anyway, just wondering has anything changed so that maybe I could upgrade the existing windows 10 to windows 11 but keeping all my software etc.

Obviously as it is unsupported I would have to use all the existing workarounds.

Thanks for any info.

facade

Microsoft have changed their minds again, and are officially allowing the upgrade (with disclaimers), but will probably change their minds back soon..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmnJNL1SKQ

spile

Except they haven’t…
https://www.zdnet.com/article/no-microsoft-has-not-reversed-course-on-windows-11-hardware-requirements/

anotherquestion

Thanks, but just wondering has anyone read of a way to install on unsupported hardware, while retaining your existing files and software.

Neil_Jones

anotherquestion said:

Thanks, but just wondering has anyone read of a way to install on unsupported hardware, while retaining your existing files and software.

The existing workarounds haven't changed, so the upgrade does work if you do it from Windows 10 and preserves everything.

anotherquestion

Thanks for that, great to know, will have a go upgrading then, as a few years ago I could only do a clean install of windows 11.

Grey_Critic

Some Windows 10 Software is not compatible with Windows 11

jshm2

Unless your using really old photoshop, Corel or similar it should upgrade fine using windows media creator and selecting "upgrade. 

Joe9090

facade said:

Microsoft have changed their minds again, and are officially allowing the upgrade (with disclaimers), but will probably change their minds back soon..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmnJNL1SKQ

Is there an easier way of upgrading than the above?
I would rather not amend the registry if possible.

Olinda99

you need to amend the registry so that when you run W11 setup it bypasses the 'can my pc run W11' checks

Newcad

See this that I recently posted on another thread here, and the post 4-down from it by Roytom2 who followed the video to successfully install Win11 24H2 on unsupported hardware while keping his files:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81188917/#Comment_81188917