help installing win 10 on an early 2011 MacBook pro

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i recently upgraded my 2011 MacBook with i7 to 16 gb of ram and updated it to el captain (with help of this forums users) . now i wanted to update my windows too, currently i am running win 7 32 bit and looked up how i can update it to 10, apparently apple stopped publishing drivers for my MacBook model for win 10.
but in my searching i found some users that was successful in installing win 10 using windows main update tool.
i wanted to know if there is some third party drivers for my mac book model (early 2011) and if i cant install win 10, what's the latest windows version i can install?
also it would be great if i can get a link to a how to install windows using boo camp , there is alot of subjections on the web ,it made me a little confuse.
thanks in advance .
 

chscag

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2017 27" iMac, 10.5" iPad Pro, iPhone 8, iPhone 11, iPhone 12 Mini, Numerous iPods, Monterey
My advice: You would be better off installing Windows 7 x 64 bit instead of Windows 10. Finding drivers for a 2011 MacBook can be very difficult. For one, your 2011 MacBook Pro i7 is considered obsolete by Apple and they do not provide Boot Camp drivers for that model.
 

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Depending upon which Windows software you want/need to run running Windows on a virtual machine on your Mac might be a viable option.
 

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