Forget 4GB requirement, here is Windows 11 running with 184MB of RAM

Forget 4GB requirement, here is Windows 11 running with 184MB of RAM

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Dwelling home windows 11’s official {{hardware}} requirement guidelines mandates a minimal of 4GB of RAM to run the working system. Having solely 4GB of system memory is pretty robust these days (till you use a single tab in your browser, nonetheless there are nonetheless people available on the market who’re dealing with a lot much less, and some of them are even ready to place within the latest Dwelling home windows 11 launch on such methods.

Working Dwelling home windows 11 on a PC with 2GB of memory should not be spectacular, though. Making the OS run with 22 events a lot much less RAM than the official minimal—that is spectacular.

NTDEV, the maker of the tiny11 enterprise (a modified lightweight Dwelling home windows 11 image that is far more resource-friendly), printed a YouTube video the place he confirmed Dwelling home windows 11 mannequin 24H2, the most recent Dwelling home windows 11 launch, working on a digital machine with merely 184 MB of random entry memory.

Actually, this is not about being able to make use of a up to date working system on a PC straight from the late 90s. The enterprise solely boots in safe mode, and it is very sluggish. Nonetheless, the OS can nonetheless perform staple objects and, to some extent, even multitask. How about working Notepad side-by-side with File Explorer with decrease than 200 MB of RAM? Pretty spectacular.

Dwelling home windows 11 working with 22 events a lot much less of its minimal amount of RAM should not be the first whacky enterprise coming from NTDEV. Earlier, he confirmed Dwelling home windows 11 mannequin 24H2 LTSC working off a DVD with the help of LZX. He moreover made it doable to run (barely) Dwelling home windows 11 on the iPhone 15 Skilled and created a modified mannequin that solely requires 3GB of disk home.

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roosho Senior Engineer (Technical Services)
I am Rakib Raihan RooSho, Jack of all IT Trades. You got it right. Good for nothing. I try a lot of things and fail more than that. That's how I learn. Whenever I succeed, I note that in my cookbook. Eventually, that became my blog. 
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