Things to consider before moving to Windows 11
The first question that you have to ask yourself is, do you actually have to move to windows 11? Windows 10 is going to be supported up until 2025, and there is no actual push for people to be upgrading.
- Are you and your PC ready for an upgrade
A lot of the times you have to think about any different things :
- Is it worth you taking the effort to move to windows 11?
- Is it going to impact or benefit you in any way?
- Is it going to benefit the computer and it’s performance in any way?
If all of the is telling you no, then unfortunately maybe it is not in the best interest for you to move to windows 11.
- Check if your system is supported for windows 11
The published system requirements for windows 11 is :
- You have to be running a 1 GHz or faster processor with 2 or more cores that are compatible on a 64 bit processor or system chip.
- It requires you to have at least 4 Gigs of RAM.
- It requires you to have at least 64 Gigs of available storage.
- Security wise it requires you to have TPM version 2 in UEFI firmware with a secure boot capability.
- Graphic card wise it requires you to be compatible with Direct X 12 or later with WDDM 2.0 driver.
- Display wise it requires a high definition (at least 720p) display, 9” or bigger, with 8 bits of colour.
So you can do all those physical checks, or it is just simpler to download and use the Health check. All you have to do is install it and it will do all the checks and tell you if your machine is capable for windows 11 or not, and you can then download and install it.
- Check the compatibility of all other required software
After you have checked if your system is compatible, you need to check the compatibility of all other required softwares. So if you are running software that are important to you and whatever you do, you need to check that your application will work on windows 11. Purely because there are applications that are not compatible yet for windows 11. If it is going to impact something important like for work, then it is telling you maybe you should not be upgrading to windows 11.
- Back up all important files and information
This is simple and easy, you just have to back it up and have a secure copy before you do the upgrade, in case anything does go wrong. So at least you know you have a backup of all your information and you didn’t lose anything.
- Make sure your current version of windows 10 is up to date
You need to make sure your windows is up to date, even if it means running two updates. This will ensure for a smoother upgrade for windows 11, and that’s all you require. Then you know you are sunning windows 11 after this and you won’t have any problems.