The minimum requirements for Windows 11 say this very clearly we need at least 4 GB of RAM so that we could move it and we could verify that even with 8 GB of RAM the user experience is not quite optimal. With this in mind, it is easy to ask how it can then be carried out. with only 176 MB of RAM.

Relax, it’s not a dark case of lack of optimization that has been exposed, and there’s no “magic” behind it, it’s just a question a stripped down version of said operating system which retains only very basic functions, although its heart is still Windows 11.

This is the trick that makes Windows 11 consume 40 times less RAM, limit features and functions until you leave him almost in a “skeleton”. However, this is very interesting because it paints a promising future for the Windows 12 modular system that we have heard so much about in recent months. In theory, Microsoft will approach this operating system as basic core with very low resource consumption, and various modules can be “embedded” on top of it to add specific functions and features.

When we return to this version of Windows 11, which works with 176 MB of RAM, we see that the system does not directly show the desktop and that we do not even have icons, we only have the command line enter various commands to perform specific actions. Yes, it’s limited access, but even with this very simple version we have access to features as “complex” as Task Manager, and we can even do basic multitasking.

The people responsible for this project confirmed that the creation of this version was a very complicated process and that they had to start from the concept of trial and error with many drivers and services until they found the ones that needed to be maintained in order to run Windows 11 without problems. .They finally reached a very limited version with relatively weak performance, but functional.

So far this year, we have seen other interesting projects, such as the implementation of Tiny11 in GeForce RTX 3050 graphics memory. This is a stripped down version of Windows 11 that is only 4 GB and that it does not need to be installed, which allowed it to be moved directly to the specified graphics card.