News Make a Windows 11 Image That Runs on 2GB of RAM With Tiny11 Builder

[Admin]

Free tool lets outputs a Windows 11 installer (ISO) that requires just 2GB of RAM.

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[evdjj3j]

Am I the only one who is not impressed that Win11 can run on 2GB?

 

[USAFRet]

Am I the only one who is not impressed that Win11 can run on 2GB?

No, you're not.

Fine...you get the OS running.
Then, what do you do with it?

 

[fevanson]

Just buy some ram if you can. It eliminates the headaches of update issues and services missing. I just upgraded a $500 Ryzen 5 5600h/ GTX 1650 laptop to 16gb (crucial 2*8gb 3200mhz) from Amazon for $45.

 

[PC Hardware Nerd]

It would be nice to be able to select what to disable or enable in the operating system before the install as part of the image creation process. There are a few things I'd keep enabled from that list of disabled items, and a few other things, like teams, I don't want installed in the first place.

That's not to diminish the work the creator put into this, because this is an impressive accomplishment and proves just how bloated windows has gotten in general.

 

[JohnApOphis]

Does it also Apply to ARM versions of Windows 11?

 

[peachpuff]

Wake me up when they can make chrome run on 2gb of ram 🤣

 

[HoseHead711]

Am I the only one who is not impressed that Win11 can run on 2GB?

Greetings...

I have Tiny11 installed on an old notebook and it runs great. It replaced Windows 8.1 Pro.

HP Stream Notebook PC
• Intel® Celeron® N2840 with Intel HD Graphics (2.16 GHz, up to 2.58 GHz, 1 MB cache, 2 cores)
• 2 GB 1333 MHz DDR3L SDRAM (onboard)
• 32 GB eMMC

\m/ (-_-) \m/

 

[USAFRet]

Greetings...

I have Tiny11 installed on an old notebook and it runs great. It replaced Windows 8.1 Pro.

HP Stream Notebook PC
• Intel® Celeron® N2840 with Intel HD Graphics (2.16 GHz, up to 2.58 GHz, 1 MB cache, 2 cores)
• 2 GB 1333 MHz DDR3L SDRAM (onboard)
• 32 GB eMMC

\m/ (-_-) \m/

I had/have Win 10 running on similar hardware.
It runs, but it is not "great".

 

[Math Geek]

was thinking of trying this out on an old acer netbook i still got running. it's about 11 years old and was slow as dirt when it was new. max 2 gb ram and a slow as it gets atom cpu.

got a lite linux distro on it now but for the fun of it i'll prob install this just to see how it compares.

it came with win 7 starter edition (anyone remember that one?) and barely ran with that. never could get xp running on it though i tried.

 

[PlaneInTheSky]

The OS bricked for me during an update.

I'll stick with Linux Mint Xfce for a lighrweight OS.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

I really don’t know what all the kerfuffle is about. When I clean installed windows 11 recently, my system only runs with about three gig on start up and fully loaded for work 4 GB.

 

[TairikuOkami]

My 11 runs on 1,7GB (500MB ramdisk) and uses 14GB with LZX compression, normal setup with apps, onedrive, etc, just removed some bloatware post-setup.

 

[Ravestein NL]

It would be nice to be able to select what to disable or enable in the operating system before the install as part of the image creation process. There are a few things I'd keep enabled from that list of disabled items, and a few other things, like teams, I don't want installed in the first place.

That's not to diminish the work the creator put into this, because this is an impressive accomplishment and proves just how bloated windows has gotten in general.

That made me think.....
The time you had to create your own Linux kernel in the 80's ;-)

 

[Ravestein NL]

Does it install security updates automatically? (Defender for instance)

 

[Findecanor]

Oh, please don't give Microsoft any ideas!

I've got a tablet with Windows 10 but only 2GB RAM and 32 GB SSD, which I use for real proper tasks every day.
I wish I could upgrade the RAM and storage but those are fixed and nobody makes any new tablets in its form factor with as good a screen, speakers and pen support as this one (except maybe Apple ...)
I DON'T WANT ANY MORE UPDATES THAT BREAK THINGS!

 

[Friesiansam]

The official system requirements demand not only TPM security and secure boot, but also at least 4GB of RAM, a dual-core processor and a 64GB SSD.

Even if your PC is very modest, as long as you meet the TPM requirement, those hardware requirements are not exactly odious. On the other hand, if I had a spare PC, I would try Tiny11 just for fun, which I am sure is what it is intended for.

 

[abufrejoval]

Well in its current state, it's rather limited in terms of direct usefulness, as the actual ISO images abound with all the permutations of languages, releases and OS variants and the app strings vary accordingly.

But since it's really just a batch file, you can easily adapt it to your particular source ISO and release.

I've used Nir Sofer's UninstallView to get rid of all the bloatware that Microsoft adds to the OS these days and that will also allow you to change and update the batch file with the matching app strings to feed to DISM on your ISO.

It doesn't save much if it's just about deploying on a single system, but if you're trying to create a base line for several, it may be worth the effort.

And in any case it has the registry tweaks which allow you to install/update on systems which Microsoft has decided should die already, like my Skylake GT3e Iris 550 notebook with 16GB of RAM, that is still really far too useful to dump and generally one of the most compatible systems I have: It really runs every x86 OS I've ever thrown at it.... Except Windows 11 which actively cancelled it.

I'd still just wish some judge would force Microsoft to offer a default install without all that garbage and without having to disable phone-home data feeds for each and every (local!) user account.

I really hate it when servants/service providers believe they own the place where they are just meant to do the menial work of running applications.

 

[waltc3]

Aside from the programs mentioned, lots of Windows services are disabled, I'm sure. Lost functionality. I would also guess that the pagefile.sys are removed as well (?)--running the system straight from ram, or is pagefile.sys increased in size?--which I've done, myself, and had problems with various games and applications because of it. I might do it with 256GB of ram installed, however.

I don't see a problem with it if people want to do it. Seems more trouble than it's worth. I used to spend hours disabling or setting manual services that I told myself I didn't need. When things popped up as problems I hadn't had before, I was back enabling/setting to automatic, my previously disabled services. About the time I get rid of the "bloat" is when I'll start looking for it...! But that's just me. I have often thought that "one man's bloatware is another man's treasure"...

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

I...don't understand. There was already a popular tool for installing Windows 11 on unsupported machines (TPM check disabled) and bypassing the Microsoft account requirement, and aside for giggles it's highly unlikely anyone interested in using Windows 11 will have a machine in 2023 with less than 8GB of RAM (or less than 16GB if it's a machine with DDR4) so the fact it runs on 2GB of RAM is fairly meaningless.

 

[USAFRet]

I...don't understand. There was already a popular tool for installing Windows 11 on unsupported machines (TPM check disabled) and bypassing the Microsoft account requirement, and aside for giggles it's highly unlikely anyone interested in using Windows 11 will have a machine in 2023 with less than 8GB of RAM (or less than 16GB if it's a machine with DDR4) so the fact it runs on 2GB of RAM is fairly meaningless.

This is a "Gee whiz, look at what we built"
Not anything actually usable.

 

[sub7.exe]

It would be nice to be able to select what to disable or enable in the operating system before the install as part of the image creation process. There are a few things I'd keep enabled from that list of disabled items, and a few other things, like teams, I don't want installed in the first place.

That's not to diminish the work the creator put into this, because this is an impressive accomplishment and proves just how bloated windows has gotten in general.

It sounds like what you are looking for is NTLite.

There is a free version as well as a paid version, which is $40.

The free version works fine.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

The problem is you never know what functionality you’re going to need later on. It’s not worth the bother. If you have to gut your operating system, then you probably should use something else.

 

[abufrejoval]

The problem is you never know what functionality you’re going to need later on. It’s not worth the bother. If you have to gut your operating system, then you probably should use something else.

This isn't about gutting but about de-bloating. Microsoft puts tons of useless stuff and downright harmful spyware onto what should just be an operating system.

The very least they should do is give people a choice, preferably after installing with the leanest possible default so you don't have to face 100 questions before getting started.

I routinely deactivate telemetry, all permissions for Apps and uninstall whatever Microsoft deems a default: never missed a thing, except not having to go through all that bother every time I install, and then again after every bi-annual update!

I don't want Teams, OneDrive, xBox, Edge, Bing, Office 365 nor any of the smaller media, photo, mail or maps nasties: 3rd party, only, and without the built-in snoop.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Well, I use my computer to work and I need all those apps that you mentioned, so I’m not really concerned that they’re spying on me at work which is all I do with my computer

they can clearly see that I don’t have much of a life and then I work all the time lol

as mentioned above, your phone gives away a lot more about you than windows does

if it ever does bother me that much, I’m just going to install Linux and run with it. I already use it on a daily basis for work in virtual machines that I could easily run Linux with windows as a virtual machine for work.