How to Install Windows 11 With Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool Microsoft's free executable file can help you install Windows 11 on any eligible PC from a USB drive or DVD.

After rolling out Windows 11 25H2, also known as Windows 11 2025 Update, Microsoft has confirmed that the Media Creation Tool has stopped working on devices with Arm64 CPUs. The Windows 11 Media ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool (MCT) is working again on Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 11 25H2 systems. MCT is a free tool that helps download the latest version of ...

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

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It's approximately *checks watch* one day until Windows 10 ostensibly gets the chop, so it's a good job the Media Creation Tool is available for people to use to install Windows 11 and- oh, it's not ...

If you are installing, updating, or upgrading to Windows 11 using the Installation Assistant but the Windows 11 Installation Assistant is slow, use the following suggestions to resolve the problem.

Security software is known to cause issues such as these. The software might evaluate that it’s harming the system and block the file. It will abruptly stop the process of media creation. You may also ...