Troubleshooting and Supporting Windows 11: Creating Robust, Reliable, Sustainable, and Secure Systems

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M. HalseyTroubleshooting and Supporting Windows 11https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8728-6_22

22. Installing and Restoring Windows 11

Mike Halsey¹  

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Genouillac, France

 

It’s becoming increasingly rare that anybody installs a copy of Windows these days. The largest number of installs will be corporations upgrading their desktop machines from Windows 10, but even that’s not a clean install, it’s an upgrade. IT departments reimaging a PC after a problem isn’t a clean installation either, it’s restoring a backup image. For consumers and the rest of society, Windows 11 will come preinstalled on a new PC or laptop, and those moving from Windows 10 to Windows ...