Upgrade old PC to Windows 11

[ex-Chinese Dave]

This may be helpful to those of us with older PCs and laptops...



What do you think?

 

[Louis]

And without a 9 minute video.

Download the windows 11 ISO. Unpack the ISO, go into the “Sources” folder, then edit the “appraiserres.dll” file to be empty.

Install.

 

[ChrisR]

Didn’t even edit a DLL for my upgrade I did this week on my unsupported CPU.

Just a registry key change to sort it.

 

[Martin_172]

Thanks, ill be able to play Forza now!

 

[DrAlex]

The other option is Linux if you're not into using office.
I've got Steam on my old gaming laptop running Ubuntu and it has given it a new lease of life. Use it for work every day and it feels like going back to older XP but in a good simple way.

 

[charltjr]

I'm moving away from Windows. I've been piloting using Linux on a mini-PC I bought a while back and I can't fault it. I might miss out on a few AAA games, but with the Steam Deck out there compatibility is gettting surprisingly good now.

Think I'll buy a new SSD, keep the old Windows one to one side for a bit just in case and then when I'm completely sure about Linux on my main PC I'll use the old SSD as extra p**n storage. I could use some sort of euphamism, but meh. It's for p**n.