Windows 11 install on old computer

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Used Tiny11 on my 4th gen i7 laptop, no TPM2.0:

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Going to be interesting to see how long the security updates last for some of these Win11 install workarounds.

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From history, pretty long. Until Win11 stop support.

MS didnā€™t have any success targeting individual computer.

Probably Iā€™ll have hardware problem on the laptop first.

BTW this is not illegal. The laptop got valid Windows license. The install disabled a few thing. The big one is hardware requirement.

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The previous generation controllers used on our machines was a Windows 10 PC. In order to get ā€œReal Time Controlā€ out of a PC, you have to disable all sorts of stuff in the BIOS and in windows. (TPM 2.0 and Virtualization being 2 of the biggies.)

It has been an ongoing battle for the last 18 months to get the system to work on W11. We get it sorted, and then Windows adds a new security feature. We get past that and Dell changes the BIOS requiring more hoop jumping.

Our IT guy wants to strangle me every time I remind him. Weā€™ve completely defeated the whole reason Windows 11 exists, and if we keep it upā€¦ Iā€™m not sure what is going to happen if we keep it up, but it is going to be BAD!

His last comment was ā€œTPM canā€™t be disabled and retain Windows 11ā€™s ability to apply its annual feature updates.ā€

I donā€™t know if that is true or not. I know weā€™ve been doing this for years, and everything appears to work as normal, including Windows updates. Taking into account how much Windows likes to force updates (and reboots) on us, I canā€™t imagine them doing anything to disable that functionality.

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Iā€™m interested, go on.

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Take a look at Rufus.

It creates bootable USB from ISOā€™s, and it can disable some Windows 11 requirements, like TPM, Secure Boot and enable the creation of local account (without the ā€˜hackeryā€™ :slight_smile: ).

The latter is all but removed in the latest (25H2) Win11 build, unless something like

unattented install is used.

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I used Tiny11 to remove features and hardware requirement from MS 24H2 ISO file.

Rufus to make bootable ā€œdiscā€.

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Is that with the ā€˜regularā€™ or IoT version of Windows11?

TPM and SecureBoot are optional on IoT, AFAIK.

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Regular. Win11 Home and Pro ISO download from Microsoft.

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Updated another 4th gen i7 laptop to 24H2.

Then updated both to 25H2.

Ran Fusion on both.