Rufus is one of the most well-known and efficient tools for creating USB bootable disks, and now that we have the new Windows 11 and a lot of people wanting to update manually by, in many cases, compatibility reasons, the tool has taken the opportunity to update itself and launch a beta version that makes the process much easier under this scenario.
With the beta version of Rufus 3.16 which you can find on their GitHub page, support has been added for a “Windows 11 extended installation“This is basically the option to disable the 8GB RAM, TPM and Secure Boot requirements automatically when creating a USB boot disk with the operating system.
Just download the Windows 11 ISO, connect a USB stick to your computer and run Rufus. When you go to create your boot disk, you will find a couple of Image options after selecting a valid Windows 11 ISO.
The second option, called Extended Windows 11 Installation (no TPM / no Secure Boot / 8GB- RAM) It is used for just that, creating a USB boot disk to install Windows 11 on computers that have neither TPM nor Secure Boot, nor do they have 8 GB of RAM.
When the requirements are not necessary
The minimum requirements of Windows 11 are ones that have a lot of cloth to cut, not only have they left out many, but many computers, but it turns out that you can skip them and install them in the system even without your equipment being “compatible”.
The situation is so strange and absurd that Microsoft itself published, on its own support page, a trick to “hack” your Windows 10 and be able to upgrade to Windows 11. This trick requires editing the Windows Registry and is offered “at your own risk.”
Use a tool like Rufus to do a clean install from scratch without having to edit anything by hand to get around those requirements, it is much more comfortable depending on the case.
The only thing to keep in mind is that you have to accept the risk that something could go wrong because your PC technically is not supported (although there are still day one problems even on computers that are supported), or the fact that Microsoft keeps its promise threat not to allow updates to be installed on Windows 11 PCs that are not officially supported.