Having a little trouble when it comes to patience for what’s next? Looking to get your hands on Windows 11 right now? Fear not, as you can easily make it happen–as long as you are installing it on a machine you aren’t depending on for anything important.
Windows 11 is still in its development stages, so you will likely run into a bug here or there, missing features that haven’t fully been developed yet, and an occasional crash. This is why you want to do this on a machine that you don’t rely on. A system that can be used for beta testing this new OS environment.
First, make sure your system meets the minimum requirements.
As long as you think you meet what it takes, head over to “Settings” within Windows 10. From there go to “Update and Security” and look for “Windows Insider Program“.
If you haven’t signed up for the Windows Insider Program before, it will walk you through doing this. Once you have (or if you already are signed up), it will confirm the associated Microsoft account.
Eventually, it will ask you which channel of updates you want to be a part of. You are going to want to choose the middle option called “Beta Channel” and hit “confirm”. Once you do, you will begin the process and Windows 11 will show up as an available update in Windows 10.
Note: You can also choose “Dev Channel” if you want an even earlier preview of updates being worked on. However, that is an alpha-stage channel that is more subject to yet-to-be-fixed bugs (some of which can be critical).
Welcome, to Windows 11 (in its early stages). The process is pretty easy and Windows 11 is actually in a very stable state at the moment. We haven’t been able to get it to crash yet ourselves (in its current release, at the time of writing this).
