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Microsoft made Windows 11 available to all users worldwide on October 4, 2021. Not everyone was able to try it, especially those with older machines that do not meet requirements such as having a TPM 2.0 chip.

Well, you can install Windows 11 from scratch using an ISO image, but what about updates where we don’t want to lose our settings, programs, and games?

As announced, on October 5, 2021 (to be more precise, at the end of October 4), Microsoft officially presented the final version of Windows 11.

Most of us have certainly heard about the requirements for Windows 11, when it comes to hardware. A large number of users were disappointed, checking whether they will be able to update their hardware to the latest system from Microsoft. But… how it is not possible, if it is!

Even though Windows 10 has settled in on our computers, Microsoft has prepared a real surprise for us — Windows 11. In addition, it announced that the update will be free — well, almost.

Recently I had the opportunity to transfer data from one computer to another. Since the first one was already running Windows 10 in the latest version and everything worked perfectly (only the hardware was a bit lagging behind), I decided to clone the disk from the first one to the second one.

Using dd as a method (a little slow but effective) I ran the same system on the new hardware, with one difference. The target hardware was licensed with Windows 10 Pro compared to the old hardware with Windows 10 Home.

Therefore, I decided to do an upgrade.

Hell has frozen over once again.

I have been using Avast on my Windows computers for years and it has worked wonders. I have not encountered any infections and it has protected me from several threats that I have encountered.

How to download an ISO image directly from Microsoft servers, officially, without risk and unnecessary fiddling.

Recently I have been looking for a simple and easy method to convert ringtone or a song from MP3 to M4R, a ringtone format used widely in iPhones.

The conversion from MP3 to M4A and later change of file extension to M4R is not something difficult for myself, however less experienced users this can be challenging.

Because of that, using various methods I decided to prepare something, that till be working on just dropping MP3 file and double-click on specified file to ret in short moment ready ringtone for use on our phone.

I have prepared couple batch files and used for this purpose FFmpeg converter. This is the final product from my work.

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