The developer of Rufus reiterated today that the upcoming version of the utility will make it much easier to bypass Windows 11 version 24H2 requirements for in-place upgrades.
For the record, MinGW has released an alpha version of the software:
Note that with the next version of Rufus, you'll be able to simply double-click setup.exe to perform in-place upgrades, as the application will create a wrapper around setup.exe that will apply the registry overrides before performing the initial installation that set by Microsoft
If you are in a hurry to try it out, you can download the upcoming beta version of Rufus which will be released very soon.
You can see the development steps at
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/actions/runs/11201946687/job/31137487619
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
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