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My laptop is offering me to install win 11...but I want it for my desktop....Is there a way that i can "steer'' it to my desktop via external drives? If not, would it be feasable to install on my laptop, and then clone it to an external drive, with ultimate goal being my desktop?
 
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Novel8 said:
My laptop is offering me to install win 11...but I want it for my desktop....Is there a way that i can "steer'' it to my desktop via external drives?
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Is your desktop even compatible with windows 11 ?
If it was compatible, you should have received upgrade offer on desktop too.
Windows 11 requires UEFI, Secure Boot and TPM support.
What are technical specs of your desktop?

Anyway - if it is compatible, then download from microsoft and install.
 
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Novel8 said:
My laptop is offering me to install win 11...but I want it for my desktop....Is there a way that i can "steer'' it to my desktop via external drives? If not, would it be feasable to install on my laptop, and then clone it to an external drive, with ultimate goal being my desktop?
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No and No.

If your desktop is fully Win 11 compatible, it will get its own Win 11 update notification.
 
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USAFRet said:
Lets find out what he has, before going down unsupported pathways.
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There's no issue of legality here. Microsoft have their own page about installing Win 11 on unsupported devices. It simply gives you the vague caveat that it may not work correctly with the intended system, among other things.

With that said, this is a valid/legitimate way to try the OS. For the OP, if it doesn't work or play nicely they can rollback (if doing the update path) to the previous installation.

Also, in terms of the security updates etc, the unsupported WIn 11 device will still receive them. So why not try it out?

Agreed. Knowing the hardware involved would be helpful.
 
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Roland Of Gilead said:
There's no issue of legality here. Microsoft have their own page about installing Win 11 on unsupported devices. It simply gives you the vague caveat that it may not work correctly with the intended system, among other things.

With that said, this is a valid/legitimate way to try the OS. For the OP, if it doesn't work or play nicely they can rollback (if doing the update path) to the previous installation.

Also, in terms of the security updates etc, the unsupported WIn 11 device will still receive them. So why not try it out?

Agreed. Knowing the hardware involved would be helpful.
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I'm not talking about "legality".

Rather...what hardware is it?
It is useful to forcefeed Win 11 on ancient hardware, that should have gone to the great dumpster in the sky years ago...

Or, it may be a very very new system, that just needs the fTPM subsystem turned on.

We out here have no idea.


I've seen people ask this about a Core2Duo, with 3GB RAM.
 
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Novel8 said:
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A much condensed version of that would be preferable.

But your CPU is far off the bottom of the Win 11 compatibility list.
AMD a10-7850k

Indeed...it is almost a decade old now.

Per your original question - No. You cannot simply apply the Win 11 upgrade offered for your laptop to this old desktop.

You can probably go through some magic gyrations to get Win 11 on this system, but Why?
 
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USAFRet said:
A much condensed version of that would be preferable.

But your CPU is far off the bottom of the Win 11 compatibility list.
AMD a10-7850k

Indeed...it is almost a decade old now.

Per your original question - No. You cannot simply apply the Win 11 upgrade offered for your laptop to this old desktop.

You can probably go through some magic gyrations to get Win 11 on this system, but Why?
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Because of my budget and diminshing eyesight i need a large screen monitor. Sure, i guess i could hook up the monitor to my laptop, and would consider that. AS far as installing win 11 on my desktop, prior to that I had win 10 merely by the initial upgrades Microsoft offered us at the beginning and i had no problem with it....that being said, I have tried dozens of times to install win 10 via the Media tool creation tool and all i ever got out of those attempts was Contana's voice introducing me to win 10, but there was NO visual applied. though some people have said that if i hear her voice then its installed....if it was, how do I "SEE" it, instead of just hearing her voice??
 
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Novel8 said:
Because of my budget and diminshing eyesight i need a large screen monitor. Sure, i guess i could hook up the monitor to my laptop, and would consider that. AS far as installing win 11 on my desktop, prior to that I had win 10 merely by the initial upgrades Microsoft offered us at the beginning and i had no problem with it....that being said, I have tried dozens of times to install win 10 via the Media tool creation tool and all i ever got out of those attempts was Contana's voice introducing me to win 10, but there was NO visual applied. though some people have said that if i hear her voice then its installed....if it was, how do I "SEE" it, instead of just hearing her voice??
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Your desktop is far off the bottom of the supported list for Win 11.

Yes, you could probably forcefit Win 11 running on it, but why?

Currently it is running Win 7, correct?

If you're having issues getting Win 10 running on it, getting Win 11 on it will be even harder.
 
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