


So yeah, this is an experiment with Windows 11. Zorin OS 16 does the exact same thing in style and with a system that is both snappy, safe and a joy to use.maybe it’s because Zorin has 80% less settings and they are all easily found in the same place. I do have to point out that Windows 11 looks and feels very half-baked, UI consistencylevel ZERO. Other than that, the performance is very similar. The update was a lot quicker than Windows 10 on this machine, I guess that’s something. Patch tuesday and a cumulative update later all is well in old-potatoland. Today is the first patch tuesday so I will be bamboozled if nothing explodes.īut yeah, W11 installed on an almost 15 year old potato with 2GB RAM and none of the required important bits. In my case the install completed without a hitch and all is well. Then you can insert name and password, with no internet or microsoft involved, making your install roughly three hundred billion times better. When the install reaches “connect to wifi”, press shift+F10, in command prompt write taskmgr and kill network flow blaa blaa whatever it is english. oh well, moving on:Ĭlean install on a wiped and formatted drive, computer previously ran W10 21H2 with local account also. While installing, I add 2 more afterwards, it’s a little quirk with S7210 =) it refuses any install with 4GB but accepts it afterwards.

Used Rufus Beta, MBR, Extended Windows 11 Installation (no TPM, no Secure Boot, 8GB- RAM) Oh, and by the way: this old laptop has TWO GB of RAM. Pay attention to the Drive Letter, Volume Label if you have more than one storage device plugged into your computer, and choose the correct one. Select the USB drive that you want to use. It's a portable program, run the EXE, and its interface should pop-up.ģ. At the time of writing this article, the current build is Rufus Beta 2 (rufus-3.16_BETA2.exe)Ģ. Go to the official website and download the latest beta release. How to disable TPM, Secure Boot and RAM requirements for Windows 11ġ. Please take a backup of any data, pictures or videos, that is on the flash drive before you go ahead, as formatting the thumb drive will erase all contents on it. Before proceeding, make sure you have a USB flash drive that has a storage capacity of 8GB or more, for creating the bootable media. Add UEFI Shell ISO downloads (retroactively applied through FIDO).Add Windows 11 "Extended" installation support (Disables TPM/Secure Boot/RAM requirements).Fix removal of some boot entries for Ubuntu derivatives.Fix BIOS boot support for Arch derivatives.Fix ISO mode support for Red Hat 8.2+ and derivatives.
