Installing Windows 11 comes with requirements such as having a compliant CPU, having secure boot and TPM 2.0.
There are many ways in which you could bypass these if you run so called unsupported hardware.
In my case the computer didn't meet any of the requirements mentioned above, but the saving grace is perhaps a good amount of storage and an i7 processor. Things could be worse I guess.
After trying some registry modifications I was close to giving up, but eventually I found a way that worked. My HP Elitebook 2540p managed to get Windows 11 installed, despite 4GB of ram it is running surprisingly well. Even the battery life seems to have gotten better.
So this is how I installed Windows 11 on my 2540p:
First download the English International version of the ISO here.
I made sure I had downloaded the latest Rufus software to create my USB and I used a USB-drive with at least 32GB of storage.
In Rufus I then had the option to bypass TPM check and the like, so I used these options to ignore the requirements that kept me from just installing the regular Windows 11 ISO.
After flashing the drive with the modified ISO I could then install it on my PC the usual way, but I had to activate UEFI. After that I only had to configure Windows the usual way.
Using a legit Windows activation key I was then able to use the computer normally and even perform Windows Updates. There wasn't really any bugs and only some niche settings were locked due to the old age of the computer. To some degree I even experienced better user experience with Win11 than Win10.
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