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    Prepare Your PC for Windows 11

    Aug 17, 2021 5 minutes
    –IAN EVENDEN

    A PC WITH THE CORRECT CPU

    See Step 1 for details.

    THERE’S A NEW OS IN TOWN, you can get it for free, and you’re going to want it. Windows 11 is a handsome beast, reminiscent of Windows 10, yet still its own thing, with more to recommend it than a centered taskbar and rounded corners on its windows.

    Anyone on the Windows Insider Dev Channel will already have had a build of 11 arrive through Windows Update. It is, at the time of writing, quite stable, but is not exactly what you’d call feature-complete. Still, it makes an interesting thing to have in a virtual machine or installed on a spare PC so you can bring it out at parties and impress your friends.

    There’s a snag, however. It’s not yet implemented in the preview build, but Microsoft says

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