How to download Windows 11: Get the free Windows update now

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(Pocket-lint) - Windows 11 is coming and volition beryllium disposable arsenic a escaped upgrade for Windows 10 users starting from 5 October 2021. From that day onwards, you should beryllium capable to download and usage Windows 11 arsenic agelong arsenic your PC meets the minimum strategy requirements.

The quickest mode to get a last Windows 11 mentation from Microsoft volition astir apt beryllium to download it manually oregon to - alternatively expensively - bargain a caller PC oregon laptop.

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Windows 11 will, however, beryllium a escaped update for existing users and for anybody buying a PC now.

How to download Windows 11

The caller OS volition beryllium disposable for each via Windows Update and that process is apt to proceed into 2022.

To spot the latest Windows Updates, spell to Settings > Update and Security > Windows Update. When it becomes available, it volition explicitly connection you to upgrade to Windows 11 truthful you'll beryllium capable to bash it astatine a clip that suits you.

If you don't person Windows 10 yet, you tin inactive get it for escaped by downloading the installation record (ISO) onto the PC successful question, moving it and choosing Upgrade this PC present erstwhile prompted.

Is determination a Windows 11 beta disposable first?

In a word, yes determination is. An aboriginal Windows 11 mentation is presently rolling retired to members of the Windows Insider program. Anyone tin go a Windows Insider, but you perfectly indispensable instal aboriginal versions of Windows connected a strategy that you don't trust connected each day. Early bundle similar this contains bugs and things that conscionable don't enactment and you shouldn't enactment yourself successful a presumption wherever you request to trust connected it.

That said, you tin join up to the Microsoft Windows Insider programme here.

How to get the Windows 11 beta

You tin entree the Windows Insider Program straight from your Windows 10 PC with ease:

Click connected the Start menu
Click the settings cog
Click "Update & Security"
Click "Windows Insider Program" connected the left-hand menu
Choose "Get Started" and nexus your Microsoft account
Then you person the prime to prime dev transmission oregon beta transmission - the beta transmission is the astir unchangeable choice
Click confirm
Restart your PC and cheque for Windows Updates.

The Windows Insider Dev transmission volition get the update archetypal truthful you'll request to take that enactment erstwhile registering to get Windows 11 earlier it is released to the Beta Channel. The Release Preview transmission won't get Windows 11 until aboriginal successful the year, possibly a fewer weeks earlier it's really released to the public.

Want to cognize if your PC volition beryllium compatible?

There are a fewer hoops you request to leap done earlier you tin instal Windows 11. We've talked astir the Windows 11 strategy requirements elsewhere, but this clip Microsoft says you tin lone instal it connected processors made from astir 2016-17 onwards. That's acknowledgment to the information measures that processors made from that day onwards have.

Microsoft has upgraded its PC Health Check instrumentality (download link) to cheque whether you tin upgrade your PC to Windows 11.