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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
4 years ago

Windows 11

Anyone upgrade yet?  If so, what do you think of it?  Any problems?     I've upgraded two systems to W11, and it's working perfectly on both of them.  One is a home built Ryzen 5 based desktop and ...
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maratsade's avatar
maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
4 years ago

I haven't upgraded yet. Right now, Windows 10 is fine and works well. :)

  • MarkJFine's avatar
    MarkJFine
    Professor
    4 years ago

    I went through the trouble of converting my Win10 VM from BIOS to UFI, added the TP chip and secure boot, just so I could fail the PC Health Test on having an 'unacceptible' Intel Core i7-3740QM processor, despite it having all the  requisite technical characteristics and capabilities. The only flaw: It's from early 2013 and deemed 'too old' to be passable. 🤬 Currently fighting it out with Microsoft.

    • maratsade's avatar
      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV
      4 years ago

      Weird! I have an old laptop that was originally Win 7, and that one passed the check. I'm sure it's way older than 2013. 

      • GabeU's avatar
        GabeU
        Distinguished Professor IV
        4 years ago
        maratsade wrote:

        Weird! I have an old laptop that was originally Win 7, and that one passed the check. I'm sure it's way older than 2013. 

        That defnitely is weird, as with a unit that old the CPU can't be on the approved list.  Weird for sure.  

      • MarkJFine's avatar
        MarkJFine
        Professor
        4 years ago

        If you have a .iso of the Win11 install, and have your original Win10 product key you can install it no problem.

        The problem is that Windows Update won't update anything after you do that, because it senses it's an unsupported machine.