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+## Creating Windows guests 🪟
+
+`quickget` can download [**Windows
+10**](https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10) and
+[**Windows 11**](https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11)
+automatically and create an optimised virtual machine configuration.
+This configuration also includes the [VirtIO drivers for
+Windows](https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/).
+
+**Windows 8.1** is also supported but doesn't feature any automated
+installation or driver optimisation.
+
+`quickget` can also download [Windows 10
+LTSC](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-10-enterprise)
+and Windows Server
+[2012-r2](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2012-r2),
+[2016](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2016),
+[2019](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2019),
+and
+[2022](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/download-windows-server-2022).
+No automated installation is supported for these releases.
+
+``` shell
+quickget windows 11
+quickemu --vm windows-11.conf
+```
+
+-   Complete the installation as you normally would.
+-   All relevant drivers and services should be installed automatically.
+-   A local administrator user account is automatically created, with
+    these credentials:
+    -   Username: `Quickemu`
+    -   Password: `quickemu`
+
+### Regional versions
+
+By default `quickget` will download the *"English International"*
+release (*"English (United States)"* for server releases), but you can
+optionally specify one of the supported languages: For example:
+
+``` shell
+quickget windows 11 "Chinese (Traditional)"
+```
+
+The default Windows 11 configuration looks like this:
+
+``` shell
+guest_os="windows"
+disk_img="windows-11/disk.qcow2"
+iso="windows-11/windows-11.iso"
+fixed_iso="windows-11/virtio-win.iso"
+tpm="on"
+secureboot="off"
+```
+
+-   `guest_os="windows"` instructs `quickemu` to optimise for Windows.
+-   `fixed_iso=` specifies the ISO image that provides VirtIO drivers.
+-   `tpm="on"` instructs `quickemu` to create a software emulated TPM
+    device using `swtpm`.