Run Windows 11 for CHEAP or FREE
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- Microsoft has finally closed the loop hole for activating Windows 10 and Windows 11 with a Windows 7 product Key.
In this video, I'll give you 3 options for running Windows 11 for cheap or free.
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You're brilliant, mate. Cheers for this!
That's how my Dell computers from 2015 and has a i7 4790 it has a product key integrated into the BIOS
Not to brag - but I used to be a global IT manager. My qualifications are Win 2000, 98 etc - but obviously I have kept up to date. Seriously - no reason to pay for windows at the moment. I run "free" win 11... its works. If I hit a problem, Linux Mint. I don't care what they say, Linux IS more of a hassle than even free Windows. But thats fine - its free!!!! So... To be clear.... I'm running Win 11, fully updated and NOT activated. Its fine. Its annoying that you cant change background stuff, but.... thats it. I've messed around with pretty much everything else.... And like the video says - just use a third-party app to change your desktop - done. So yes - at the moment Win 11 is basically free. and if it isn't for some reason in your region? Linux Mint.... Takes a bit of getting used to, and a few YT video tutorials.... but worth it.
uh or just use MAS
D'ja mean MassOS?
@@Blitterbug Nah he means 🏴☠️🦜
@@maselitoamazigh1385 hehe ok
Well this is odd. Windows 8 activation keys are digital and loaded into the BIOS. I just installed Win11 on a Win8-stickered machine yesterday (24/11/23) with full activation. Did they change this overnight? I understand non-BIOS keys failing, but are you 100% sure Win8 BIOS keys are now invalid? Tip: Be careful buying keys online. I did this for a few years but after a while started getting calls from my clients because some keys had been remotely deactivated by Microsoft as being 'stolen'.
If that Win8 stickered PC has ever been activated with Win10 or Win11 prior to Oct 2023 then it will still work, as it was activated prior to Oct 23 and the activation is remembered so if you later re-install Windows 10 or 11, then it will activate ok. I agree with you about being careful about buying keys online but I did say in the video it was intended for personal user or home labs and not recommended for business environments.
@@ClickNextDemos Ah, that makes sense. Thx for the clarification! Yes, it had been used with Windows 10 at one point.
@@ClickNextDemos Win8 works like 10 and 11. It's only 7 and earlier that are affected. The way you can tell is that Windows will detect the version (home/pro) without networking installed.
how about the sign up with windows consent loophole
£32 on ebay
Why would anyone use Windows 11? I'm still on Windows 7. Let's see how Windows 12 turns out, but not holding any hope for it to actually be good.
Microsoft would have to pay me to use Windows 11.
Odd though, I think I've paid for windows once - windows 8 - for all the years I used windows beyond just gaming, I never actually bought the OS - I guess I used OEM keys or just kept upgrading for free. The windows 8 purchase (and what a poor purchase that was), gave me a free upgrade to windows 10.
I can also upgrade to 11 for free, although I have to tweak settings in my "ancient" gaming rig to run it - by "ancient", the motherboard and cpu spec are 5 years old. Go figure.
Sadly for me, getting into VR late in the game, requires me to keep my windows gaming rig going.
I do have a Linux partition that can run 90% of my games just fine and I was very close to ditching windows entirely, but VR dragged me back.
Windows 11 is an abomination - I tried it for a week, what a horror show that was. Microsoft learning nothing from the mistake of Windows 8.
Windows 10 back peddled and it's OK. I can smack it about into shape to stop bothering me, enough to run games.
Windows 11 is just another windows 8 mistake - change huge swathes of the UI/UX for ... for what reason exactly? I'm not sure.
It's like your local supermarket deciding to completely change the entire layout of the store, but without any commercial reason to do so - just because they figured it would be better if the frozen goods aisle was switched out with the canned goods one. Oh - and also, at the same time, to push more product in your face, to take your data and distribute it to more third parties and try to force you into a subscription model.
That's where microsoft are headed with windows, believe me - your computer as a dumb terminal and the OS in the cloud - pay a monthly fee to access.
So, yeah, run windows 11 if I get paid to do so - that's an option.
Hey @matthewtrow5698 Thanks for the comments. I suppose it's subjective. I quite like Windows 11, it wasn't great to begin with but it has matured a lot since it was released although it's not perfect. I keep trying Linux and although it keeps getting better, there is always certain Windows apps you need which can't run on Linux. I know you can virtualise apps but that isn't the point. And although you can make certain Linux distos look nice, in my personal opionion they are not as asthectically pleasing as Windows 11 can be and maybe after 25 years of using Windows daily, it just comes down to muscle memory.
Also if you follow the Vista=Bad, Windows 7=Good, Windows 8=Bad, Windows 10=Good, Windows 11=Bad tick tock release schedule then we should expect a good OS when Windows 12 releases in the next year or two.
Okay, so you're either an AMD FX or 1st gen Ryzen user, bought an outdated Intel right from the start or it was actually more than five years ago as the oldest (team blue) gen supported released 6 years and one month back.
To be clear I don't think a 6 year old rig should be unsupported but in the current climate that's hardware barely equivalent to an underclocked i3 or Ryzen 3, so literally
@@whohan779 You are making the assumption that everyone goes out and buys the very latest kit as it comes out. My processor I used when building up my PC from parts, i3 8100.
That was not purchased the day or month it came out, but probably a year or more later - can't recall now.
And it's not outdated, is it? - because it still works.
In fact, I recently upgraded to an i7 8700 which I got for £40 ($60)
Outdated suggests no longer working or can't get other parts to support it. Indeed you can do so and indeed, you can get windows 11 working with it. Microsoft have just chosen to side with hardware manufacturers to help them pep up very lacklustre sales - what better way than to set an artificial hardware boundary for the latest windows release?
@@matthewtrow5698 Intel Coffee Lake (which you claimed to have) is on the official CPU support list for Windows 11 though.
Are you confused? 🤔
@@whohan779 No I'm not confused - for whatever reason, windows 10 indicates that my PC does not meet the requirements for windows 11.
Perhaps it's not related to the processor, perhaps it's the motherboard, perhaps it's a combination of several factors. Maybe it's a BIOS setting - perhaps my motherboard doesn't support UEFI secure boot - I really don't actually care and neither should you! - why are you so persistent on this?
Dude, I've been using and building computers for decades. I run multiple operating systems. I know how to get around the fact that microsoft won't let me upgrade to 11 - and in fact, did so, realised how rubbish windows 11 was and went back to 10.
I was about to ditch windows entirely, having got the vast majority of my games - even RDR2 - working in Linux. (Steam and Lutris)
I will never be upgrading to windows 11 and very much hope by the time windows 10 is EOL, VR gaming on Linux will be possible.
Windows 10 EOL is October 2025, but it's almost a given security support will be extended - so I'm probably good for windows gaming for another 5 years. That'll do me.
Or you just use Linux, if you can, and most people can. I am one of the users who occasinoally is obligated to use Windows because of bad (only supporting Windows) proprietary software in cases where other people determine that I have to use that, privately I exclusively use Linux.
Tbh. Most people can't. Most people kind of need to use Microsoft office.
@@moritzm.3671 It can run with old pc also .
Yech! I may have been an IT pro for some 40-odd years, compiling Unix tarballs for live systems by day and coding in Win32 at night, but I'm no masochist! ;)
You seem to miss the point that most apps and games will not run with Linux. Solve that problem and you will see most people ditch Microshaft for Linux.
Not entirely true now. Software called WINE acts as a compatibility layer. Most Linux users get this from their software repositories for free and it allows a lot of Windows based games and software to run on most well known Linux operating systems.