No, Microsoft isn't letting you install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

[Windows Central]

An incorrect report claims that Microsoft has dropped Windows 11's strict TPM 2.0 requirement. It hasn't.

No, Microsoft isn't letting you install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware : Read more

 

[NapoleonsTeapot]

All well and good, but if you take 30 seconds to follow the links on that MS page, the instructions are provided.
4/10, see me after class.
Did an upgrade using those instructions on unsupported hardware yesterday and it works.

 

[Aries Powvalla]

This article is purely an attention grab. You can very easily find Microsoft's detail that describes their TPM requirement changes.

 

[Zac Bowden]

This article is purely an attention grab. You can very easily find Microsoft's detail that describes their TPM requirement changes.

As mentioned in the article, there are no changes. TPM 2.0 is still required to be considered officially supported by Microsoft on Windows 11.

The way Windows 11 enforces its requirements has been in-place since October 2021, and nothing has changed as of this week.

 

[NapoleonsTeapot]

Well I'll be a...
As I said above, I personally sat in front of a machine the other day, tweaked the registry using the instructions on the linked page and the upgrade worked, despite the CPU being unsupported.
Today, I am holding in my hand the same device I read those instructions on. Not only has the link I followed (via the page: "Ways to install Windows 11" ) gone, but the history of my having visited the page with the instructions (more than once) has upped and vanished from Edge on Android (that'll teach me).
Were it not for the fact that I still have the upgraded machine, I'd suspect that I'd dreamed it all....

EDIT: The tweak was to add the REG_DWORD AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMorCPU to the key HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup and set it to "1". Anyone want to check if that still works?
Yup. Evidence still there in the machine's registry. I'm not dreaming this at all.

 

[NapoleonsTeapot]

Wayback machine FTW!
See their Dec 10th snapshot of "https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...ndows-11-e0edbbfb-cfc5-4011-868b-2ce77ac7c70e".

Some serious arse covering going on at MS methinks.

 

[cyberwolf01011]

Based on your comment I very much want to believe that you hands on tried because it's completely false that Windows is restricting anything or more accurately that they're able to, and the first place they were never giving access to unsupported devices they were only really acknowledging the fact that they couldn't stop anyone from sidebusting and even that is necessary to do anymore even I have it working beautifully on my 2004 Dell XPS yes you read that right 11's hard specs are still the defining Factor no matter what any tech journalist keyword there or Microsoft of course is going to tell you but I have now twice put it on taking it back off put it back on and I ditched it again because they're screwing everything up with all the updates they do leaving so many glitches in back doors I know personally from several of the large hacking incidents is across the several of the corporations in America including cdk specifically that they got f***** by Microsoft screwing up leaving vulnerabilities because the hacking always comes after an update mysteriously, did you need the second time I thought was just basic sense given that 11 is updates are causing more software issues than 10s having without their security, the true fact is that Microsoft wasn't truly saying they were out going to allow unsupported devices blah blah they were admitting publicly that they know they can't stop people from sidebusting it it's always been possible throughout all of its lifespan in different versions and 11 regardless of advancements is no better repelling the same kind of behavior for a very obvious reason Microsoft doesn't lock it up they know that you would lose the majority of the business worlds business if they complicated their crap even more and made it definitely secure in their own way would exclude the usability of more business than they can afford to lose the hard specs are still in what they were before and no matter what there's minimum requirement settings are they are just a figment of some senior developers imagination is best guess at what could only run it and it's not even at minimum, my 04 is running an i7 2100 ish I think 8 gigs of RAM that God knows what speed not fast even the graphics card is a GT generation which I think hasn't been made in at least 15 years which is only relevant because I wanted to mention that it's still plays Modern games to this date and again has the processing power required to run Windows 11 regardless of its compatibility and it's definitely the only way you should run 11 as it gives you the opportunity to customize the install cutting out a large trunk in fact the possibility change to get rid of all of the Microsoft just bass ass bloatware and even a couple of these bonus security features that are in fact negatives in drawbacks to the system and not even helpful I very much hope this information reaches those of you who are still trying to get it go take a deeper look at what is possible and not what Microsoft wants to tell you or a paid journalist not a technician is wanting to write about it the article makes it clear he's not personally experienced or I hope not because then he really would need to choose a better career based on his writing Style and presentation of good luck to all and feel free to reach out