- Tiny11 developer published Nano11 Builder
- This allows a Windows 11 installation program seriously
- Some basic components are eliminated, which makes this unsuitable for the average owner of the PC
Tiny11 – The tool that facilitates a seriously rationalized installation of Windows 11, cut from all Microsoft bloating – has just become even smaller.
Tom’s equipment has taken over Nano11 Builder by the developer, NTDEV, who boasts that it is possible to set up an installation file for Windows 11, up to three times smaller than a standard Windows 11 image.
Nano11 can be used to produce a miniaturized version of any version of Windows 11, even test versions such as Windows 11 25H2 (which is now very close to the version of the finished version).
How does the tool work? It is a PowerShell script which can be used to cut a whole strip of Microsoft applications from Windows 11 – which Tiny11 also does, but Nano11 goes much further than that, also removing the components of the basic system.
The latter includes Microsoft Defender, Windows 11 pilots, Bitlocker, Biometrics and “Most System Services” – Oh yes and Windows Update.
At this point, you probably think: wait a minute – we will have no security or feature update without Windows update, right?
This is correct, and the installation of Windows 11 which results from the use of nano11 will not obtain any update or will not be useful. As NTDEV explains, “you cannot add languages, drivers or features, and you will not receive Windows updates” – therefore, Nano11 is not intended to provide an operating system for your daily pilot PC.
Thus, while NTDEV describes this tool as Windows 11 with “all the essential elements, none of the stuffed animals”, this is not entirely true – some of what many would consider the essential bones of the office operating system have been deleted here.
Analysis: small beyond belief, but not so perfectly formed
Okay, given all this, what is the goal of Nano11 exactly? It is to concoct a Windows 11 installation program which can be configured in a flash, with an installation only taking five minutes (approximately) because so many things have been deleted here.
As indicated, however, precisely because so many things are abandoned in this rationalization process, the result that results from Windows 11 is only for use in tests or development, and better suited to a VM installation (virtual machine). In short, for the average person, it will not be useful, and it is more a curiosity than anything else (not for the first time).
What he illustrates, however, is how Windows 11 can Be slipped – and how Microsoft inflates the operating system with a lot of applications that everyone does not want.
One of the notable cuts applied by NTDEV is to empty the OneDrive and Microsoft Edge integration – and there are more than a few people who would like to have this option when installing Windows 11. (And yes, it is possible to delete the edge in Europe – and you do not get out of Microsoft).
For the average owner of the PC, if you want a reduced windows 11, you can try Tiny11 which recently obtained a new version of its Builder tool.
