Windows 11 compatibility with processors under 2017 models
Windows 11 compatibility with processors under 2017 models
2 days ago Windows 11 was released, yet lucky for those systems with compatible hardware. And that's where gonna talk today, smooth OS, on not so smooth hardware (yah,yah, this is smooth tho). What I'm gonna do to this guy is to install that via ISO, then edit the appraiseres.dll via Notepad, remove all texts with UEFI and TPM, and all done.
Microsoft is still doing the hard/soft floor they mentioned at it's announcement, at least if you do install from a USB device. My computer is a Thinkpad P50 with a i7 6700HQ. Last week, I did a full reinstall of 11 using the RTM build as I was setting up a dual boot with Zorin (which is the same build as the one released on Monday). My computer supports TPM 2.0, supports Secureboot (even though it's off) and meets all of the requirements (minus the CPU), which means it meets the soft floor requirement. The Windows installer never yelled to me about my CPU (or Secureboot being off) and everything works perfectly fine (both Windows and Zorin boot perfectly fine). I've been running 11 since the first public beta. My only complaint is that explorer memory leak is pretty bad and has brought my computer to a crawl a few times, requiring a restart The question for unsupported CPUs is if we're going to be blocked from getting the monthly cumulative updates (the yearly feature updates are pretty much assumed that they'll be blocked). I'm assuming, and this is me just taking a guess, that computers that meet the soft floor requirement will receive the monthly cumulative updates, but Microsoft has no guarantee that they'll fully be supported, and Microsoft will offer no support if something goes wrong. Each build of 11 will be supported for two years, so build 22000 (the current build released to the public) has an EOL date of October 2023. Here's a screenshot from my computer with my specs, showing it's running 11 with Secureboot off
Just to verify, did you start from the USB with the Windows 11 ISO? I'm wondering this since I've upgraded many systems from Windows 7 to Windows 10, but the only way to get the license was by using the Windows Media Creation Tool during boot. Once the digital license was transferred, I would proceed with a fresh installation of Windows 10.
I saved the ISO file from Microsoft and transferred it to a USB stick. Before starting, I removed my old Windows 11 installation (since I was using the Insider Preview) and performed a fresh setup. My Windows license is linked to my Microsoft account, which handled the registration automatically when I signed in. I’m not certain if Windows 7 could support this process—it’s been quite some time since I used version 7.