Download Windows 11 Insider Preview Build Offline ISO Files

This article will help you in downloading offline ISO files for Windows 11 Insider Preview builds for clean installation or upgrade from Windows 10 operating system.

Around 2 months back, Microsoft announced about Windows 11 which is the next and new version of Windows operating system and will replace Windows 10 in future. Windows 11 will come with brand new rounded user interface (UI) and lots of new and interesting features.

Everything You Want to Know About Windows 11, The Next Version

Windows 11 is scheduled to release later this year for public. In the mean time, Microsoft has started releasing testing versions of Windows 11 known as Insider Preview builds to testers who want to early test drive new features and changes present in Windows 11.

Microsoft has released lots of Insider Preview builds of Windows 11 to testers and you can also download and install Windows 11 testing builds in your PC with the help of following tutorial:

How to Download and Install Windows 11 Insider Preview Builds in Your Computer?

Windows 11 will require higher hardware requirements compared to Windows 10. If your existing Windows 10 device meets system requirements of Windows 11, you’ll be able to upgrade to Windows 11 for free.

Following are the minimum system requirements to install Windows 11 in a PC:

Windows 11 Minimum System Requirements or Hardware Specifications

But even if your Windows 10 computer doesn’t meet system requirements of Windows 11, you can still download and install Insider Preview builds of Windows 11 in your incompatible system as Microsoft has removed the hardware restrictions in Insider Preview builds so that more people can test Windows 11 and provide feedback and suggestions to Microsoft. It’ll help the company in improving Windows 11 before releasing to public. It’ll also help Microsoft in learning whether the current system requirements required for Windows 11 can be made less restrictive.

Before today, users who wanted to download and install Windows 11 Insider Preview builds in their machines, required an existing copy of Windows 10 already installed in their machine to perform upgrade to Windows 11. There was no way to clean install Windows 11 builds directly in devices. If a user wanted to test drive Windows 11, he had to first install Windows 10 and then upgrade it to Windows 11 Insider Preview using Windows Updates.

Now the good news is that finally Microsoft has released full standalone offline ISO files for Windows 11 Insider Preview build. So now anyone can download the offline ISO file of Windows 11 and perform a fresh installation of Windows 11 in computer system without any need of installing Windows 10 first. You can now also use the offline ISO file to install Windows 11 in a virtual machine.

You can download Windows 11 Insider Preview build offline ISO files from following official page at Microsoft website:

Once you open above mentioned link, sign in using your Microsoft Account (Hotmail or Outlook email ID) which you used to register for Windows 11 Insiders program. After that, scroll down to bottom on the webpage and select Windows 11 Insider Preview build using “Select edition” drop down box.

You can select following 3 types of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds to download offline ISO file:

• Windows 11 Insider Preview
• Windows 11 Insider Preview Enterprise
• Windows 11 Insider Preview Home China

Select the desired Windows 11 version and click on “Confirm” button. Then select the product language using the next drop-down box. ISO files are available in following languages: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, French Canadian, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish, Thai and Turkish. After selecting language, again click on “Confirm” button.

That’s it. You’ll get a direct download link to download offline ISO file for the selected Windows 11 Insider Preview build. Remember, only 64-bit (x64) edition is available for download. Download link will be valid for 24 hours only. The file size of ISO file is 5.11 GB.

After downloading Windows 11 ISO file, you can burn it to a DVD using disc burning software or create a bootable USB drive to install Windows 11 in your computer system. If Windows 11 setup wizard asks for a product key (or serial key) at the installation time, you can either skip entering product key or use following keys to complete the installation process:

You can also enter a valid product key of genuine Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10 operating systems. Please note if you are already using an activated copy of Windows 10 in your computer system, you can skip entering the product key at the time of Windows 11 installation and after installation, Windows 11 should automatically activate itself.

You can also install and test Windows 11 Insider Preview build virtually right from your existing Windows version with the help of following tutorial:

[Tip] Install and Test Operating Systems Virtually in Windows Using Hyper-V

There are some features which have been removed from Windows 11. If you want to know more about the removed features, following article will assist you:

List of Deprecated and Removed Features in Windows 11

Also check following guides before installing Windows 11 in your device:

How to Check Your Computer has TPM 2.0 for Windows 11?

How to Enable TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot to Install Windows 11?

Fix “This PC can’t Run Windows 11” Error Message While Installing Windows 11