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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 ...
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.
I don't have Windows on my Mac, but I had wondered about that.
So apparently there's a Registry hack:
You create the key AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup\ and set it to a REG_DWORD of 1. This tells the installer to ignore the TPM or the CPU.
