After several years with us, Windows 10 has begun to give way to Windows 11. This new operating system comes with many changes both in terms of its functions and its appearance and the best thing is that it has come completely free of charge for users. users of the previous operating system. If you don’t know where or how you can download Windows 11 to install it on your computer, we tell you all the ways you have to do it .
As we have said before, installing Windows 11 is totally free for all those users who have Windows 10, so all you really have to do is meet its minimum requirements. As long as we meet these requirements, we can go to this Microsoft page and use one of its three download methods . If you are not convinced, we will give you an alternative one that you can also use and that does not require us to access this page of the American company, and another to download versions that are not yet available to all users.
Through the Installation Wizard
The easiest and most comfortable way to install Windows 11 on your computer is to do it through the Installation Wizard . It can be said that this is the most “automated” way to do it and that is that we really only have to download the executable and use it.
Once we run it, a message will appear on the screen depending on whether we already have Windows 11, if we have what is necessary to install it or, unfortunately, we do not meet the minimum requirements that we have mentioned before. If you meet the requirements to install it, you will only have to follow the steps that it marks on the screen and you will have it installed without problems in a while.
Create installation media
Creating an installation media can be an ideal way if you want to do a reinstall of Windows 11, but it can also be used to install it on your computer for the first time. We will have to install another different executable from this website, one that will help us create a self-booting USB or a DVD if we prefer .
Once we download and run it, we will have to accept the applicable License Terms and notices. Once this is done, it will be time to choose which operating system we want to use (we can only select Windows 11) and in which language we want to install. The next step will be to select, as we have said, if we prefer to do it from a USB drive, which will have to be at least 8 GB, or on a DVD.
When we have created this support, whatever our choice, we must enter it into our computer and restart it to be able to boot from it. Then we will begin to install Windows 11 on our computer (or reinstall if that is the case).
Download Windows 11 ISO Image
If you are using a different operating system such as Linux or MacOS to download Windows 11, you will not be able to use the above tool. For all these cases, Microsoft has thought of a fairly simple solution, which is to allow us to directly download the Windows 11 ISO from its website .
This is very important, because although you can find this ISO in other portals, you should never risk downloading it from a site if you cannot trust its origin, since the damage to your computer could be terrible . For this reason, Microsoft makes this file available to us with which we can create a bootable USB ourselves. With this ISO you could also install from a virtual machine.
Download with Rufus
Rufus is a tool that allows us precisely to create bootable USB, in fact, it is one of the best for it. Thanks to it, it will also be possible to download Windows 11 without having to access the Microsoft page, since the program itself is prepared to download it autonomously .
Doing it is very simple. To do this, we will only have to download the latest version of the program from its website , which even allows us to download a portable version which does not require installation. Once we have it downloaded and run it, we will only have to go to the right side where it indicates select, click on the arrow and choose Download. Once this is done, the option to download the ISO of various Windows will appear, including Windows 11.
Once we choose this latest version of the Microsoft operating system, other options will appear in the same window to choose from the version of the ISO that we want to download, the edition and also the language. The best thing about downloading the ISO from Rufus is that we will have the opportunity to modify it in order to skip some of the mandatory requirements that Windows 11 has, such as RAM memory or even the TPM 2.0 requirement , which is limiting many computers to install the operating system.
Check that the download is correct
Regardless of where we download the ISO of the operating system, it should not give us problems. Now, any type of error may have occurred during the download and this ISO has some type of error that may cause the installation to not be carried out correctly. There is a very simple way to check it, although for this you will have to download or use, if you already have it, a Windows utility known as Hashtab.
To do this, we need to check it against a value that is known as MD5. This value is based on a series of algorithms that result in a code that is unique to each file. If your ISO has this value, it means that it is perfectly fine and then you will be able to install Windows 11 from it without problems. The code that should appear for this is the following :
60DE6A8A4AD297B7BB9C180D547BB9B1
Download preview versions of Windows 11
There is another way to download Windows 11, although it cannot be considered as an alternative. Microsoft has an Insider program that allows us to download versions of Windows 11 before they reach other users. These versions, being in test, can contain errors of all kinds , but they are great if you want to see what’s new in the operating system before anyone else.
To do this, the first thing we must do is register in the program. This is something that we can do through the following link and, for this, we will need to register with a Microsoft account . Once inside the program, we will have access to the latest available builds that are in the preview phase, both from the DEV development channel and from the BETA channel. As we say, it may not be fully recommended due to the number of bugs they may have.
