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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 ...
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.
I joined a W11 group on Facebook and have read some posts where people are still installing it in systems that don't support it, and with it still working properly. Who knows?
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.
I haven't installed Win 11 -- I ran the PC Health Check and it said the machine was compatible. That's why i said the device passed the check. EDIT: the laptop (which is from before 2013) has Windows 10 on it.
On other factor for me: I'm running a Mac and Win10 is running in a virtual machine, so I have no idea if they will even know to check that processor for compatibility because it's not a PC.
Eek. Yeah, on a Mac it might be whole different story, though I did see a post last night in an M1 Mac group on FB where someone had W11 on their Mac, running it with 'Parallels' or whatever it's called. I think I'll keep my Mac solely a Mac.
Regarding the updates, it looks like that may not actually be true on all unsupported machines. Quite a few of the ones I'm seeing in the W11 group that have put it on unsupported machines, including those without TPM, Secure Boot or even an adequate CPU are still receiving updates. I thought about trying it on one of my unsupported mini PCs, but I'm still playing around with the two that do support it.
Last night, however, I did have my AM02 freeze. It's the first time that's ever happened with it. It took a hard shut down to get it going again. I don't know if it was because of W11 though.
"Last night, however, I did have my AM02 freeze. It's the first time that's ever happened with it. It took a hard shut down to get it going again. I don't know if it was because of W11 though."
I hope it wasn't because of W11, though potential issues like this is why i'm not keen on installing it yet. They'll be supporting W10 for a while, so I have the luxury of waiting a while.
My Mac continues to be a paperweight, and I probably won't update it anymore, but will try to trade it in for a new one at some point.
