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[Windows 11] alansworld2010@gmail:
Thank you thank you thank you I thought I was screwed too I've got an old optiplex 790 with a Intel i5 4 series and I just booted all I did was change the registry through the BIOS on the front end during the install which means I made the ISO file for USB UEFI boot I got the error saying that my machine hardware was not suitable for Windows 11 so I hit shift and F10 to command prompt and entered notepad because I already copied the registry into a text document that's accessible from the file menu in the notepad never done that before and that was pretty cool..copied it and then went back to the command prompt and went to the regedit.exe... copy what I had on the the text document into the actual local registry and then started the install process all over and Golden... I had to actually download the ISO file from Android host file of all places checksum good worked out everything's even better when I can beat the status quo
[Windows 11] paramparmatma:
I am using it through leaked win 11 iso
[Windows 11] zbaracki:
all modern CPUs have built-in Firmware TPM (fTPM), by default it's disabled, but quick browse through bios and you'll find it.

Other requirements - boot drive must be in GPT format and not mbr. mbr2gpt command built into windows allows for easy conversion.

CSM mode has to be disabled in order to be able to enable secure boot.
[Windows 11] meowHelpMeRoot:
well i'm out of the range. xD

another thing to note is by default, fTPM is 2.0, and on intel it is labeled as PTT, not sure why but ok
[Windows 11] BHD@RN:
well, bad news Microsoft just announced that it will only support Intel 8th generation and above processor line up.

well, we are in XDA so wait till any work around is there
[Windows 11] BHD@RN:
yes also if you are Intel user then gen 8 and above will only be supported

and for amd processors 3000 series and above i.e processors from 2019 and above.

this is weird but i saw this on gary explains video on YouTube and also on LTT video.
[Windows 11] zbaracki:
my ryzen 2700x was recognised as compatible and went with the update smoothly without any trickery.

No idea why it would require 3000+, it's same zen2 architecture with just minor tweaks.
[Windows 11] Theplayernew:
To run Windows 11 on old hardware, you need to copy all the files from the Sources folder from the Windows 10 ISO except for "install.wim" or "install.esd" to the Sources folder of the Windows 11 ISO.
[Windows 11] tweeterxda:
I have Asus M4A78T-E motherboard with AM3 processor support. Using AMD athlon 64 X2 6000 3.00 GHz processor. Did not see support for the processor on Windows 11 CPU compatibility list. Also did not find TPM feature in my bios under advanced or security. Just password settings. Is there a work around for CPU compatibility too? Please explain what I need to do to get Windows 11 on my PC.
[Windows 11] alansworld2010@gmail:
I pre-copied the registry entries that others posted to note pad as a text doc....I found a good download of the windows 11 build from Android File Host... I created a usb boot disk using refus...I mounted the newly made usb in windows 10...added my new text doc to usb...I booted bios and made sure I was set up for flash drive boot install...i booted windows 11 iso from usb flash...I got the my hardware system incompatible error.... hold shift and f10 to open command prompt... type notepad... notepad opens and chose file from heading and it opens widows file manager...navigate to your flash drive and click on the new text doc made earler...open and save as newcopy change the file extension from .txt to .reg...open the .reg fle you just made and a pop up window updates registry ..click on the still open installer window and hit back button.. it will restart install process... I have a 2012 dell opti desktop with 2nd gen i5 and 8g ram...i have no issues and it runs faster than windows 10 pro...every time i boot i have to manually enable widows security which is only difference...
[Windows 11] sd_shadow:
That's not correct, I received 11 as an update on my HP with a 7th Generation Intel® Core™ i3 Processor
[Windows 11] alansworld2010@gmail:
This worked for me....I have an old optiplex 790 with a Intel i5 4 series....all I did was change the registry through the BIOS on the front en I made the ISO file for USB UEFI boot I got the error saying that my machine hardware was not suitable for Windows 11 so I hit shift and F10 to command prompt and entered notepad because I already copied the registry into a text document that's accessible from the file menu in the notepad never done that before and that was pretty cool..copied it and then went back to the command prompt and went to the regedit.exe... copy what I had on the the text document into the actual local registry and then started the install process all over and Golden... I had to actually download the ISO file from Android host file of all places checksum good...
[Windows 11] StrangerWeather:
I think that by "support" they mean that they won't work on bugs that are experienced by older systems. If you look here you will see that they warn users not meeting the hardware requirement that their installation "may result in a degraded experience & some features may not work properly" : https://blogs.windows.com/windows-i...ing-for-insider-preview-builds-of-windows-11/. They don't actually say that it won't work at all.
[Windows 11] GiulianoB:
I just told you what you need to do. This bypass "doesn't care" what your pc has, and "doesn't care" if you have TPM enabled or not. All you need to do is to follow my instructions, and you will be able to bypass the issue with TPM:

Create a new txt file anywhere on your pc and open it. After that, add the following lines:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig] “BypassTPMCheck”=dword:00000001 “BypassSecureBootCheck”=dword:00000001

When you finish, you start the setup of windows 11, and you won't get an error.
[Windows 11] BHD@RN:
yes after researching a bit i also come to same conclusion. thanks for info.
[Windows 11] Rizal Lovins:
What i mean is only edit registry when you run Windows 11 installer (without change any file from windows 11 bootable image), and i just try it and succes, so the conclusion is we don't need any modified bootable Windows 11, everyone can run it easily.

So far there is no issue on my laptop, but i make it 2nd bootable (dual boot) just to try Windows 11 and all my current Driver, i'd like it more than Windows 10, the only problem that i facing is microsoft project 2019 and visio 2019 didn't appear on the list app, other Office work fine.
[Windows 11] mindlery:
Yup. Then you get this stuff, haha. "This PC can't..." Like hell it can't! It is!

TPM 1.2, secure boot disabled and a 6th gen i5.

*Also, installed alongside macOS opencore 7.0 without issues. Just deleted the win10 partition and it was the same procedure/results as win10 is... for now, anyway.
[Windows 11] mindlery:
Yes. I did it pretty much the same but unpacked/repacked install.wim, and renamed to install.esd with just the target version.

TPM 1.2 I never enabled secure boot and it's a 6th gen. Windows update is being a sore loser.

You may need to edit the registry after. Lookin' around myself.
[Windows 11] lpedia:
Thank you, @alansworld2010@gmail and @GiulianoB!

I now have Windows 11 Preview running on a ~2016 model Dell Inspiron laptop with no TPM (and no option to add one; motherboard isn't capable of it).

I downloaded the ISO from Android File Host, burned it to a USB stick, booted from the stick, and when the install process said the device isn't suitable, used Shift-F10 to open a command prompt.

I ended up running regedit and making the registry changes manually, because the .reg file approach didn't work for me - the install still said the machine wasn't suitable. When I then ran regedit, I found that the keys hadn't been added.

Opening the .reg file had popped up the usual warning and seemed to go make the changes when I said OK. :confused:

So my advice to others: if running the .reg file doesn't make it accept the device, try manually editing the registry.
[Windows 11] LahiruTarz:
The simplest solution that worked for me:

How To Remove or Replace appraiserres.dll in Windows 11 Setup

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Download Mirror: https://www.dllme.com/dll/files/appraiserres_dll.html
[Windows 11] Nameless Foe:
Check out my new post, It will bypass TPM and secure boot
[Windows 11] yaro666:
Or go for custom iso, I've tested it on i7 4th gen, 860m gtx, 12Gb notebook from 2015
[Windows 11] svetius:
Here's a really good guide to installing Win11 on an unsupported PC:

How to install Windows 11 on almost any unsupported PC

Want Windows 11 but have an unsupported computer? Here's how to install Windows 11 even if your PC doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

www.xda-developers.com
[Windows 11] svetius:
Here's more info on installing Windows 11 on unsupported machine:

How to install Windows 11 on almost any unsupported PC

Want Windows 11 but have an unsupported computer? Here's how to install Windows 11 even if your PC doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

www.xda-developers.com
[Windows 11] smithbill:
I downloaded Win11 ISO from AndroidFileHost as others have mentioned, burnt it to USB, added the .reg file with the REG keys as explained above, booted my HP Compaq 8200 Elite USDT (10yrs old now!) currently installed with Win10Pro, from the Win11 USB, got to the "this PC can't run Win11" message, pressed shift+F10, ran the .reg file and resumed the installation. Did a clean install of Win11 (it won't let you do an 'upgrade' of the existing Win10Pro) and the whole process completed & booted fine. It says it's activated with a 'digital license' based on my Microsoft login.

The only issue I had with the above, is that I needed to open Notepad.exe and correct the double-quotes in my tiny .reg file as they were originally the wrong type of double-quote characters.

Initially Win11 was using about 60% of my installed 4Gb of memory, but after a few Windows updates & reboots this has dropped and now Win11 seems to sit at around 1.3Gb in use (before opening any apps). CPU usage seems fine.

As for Win11 itself - I hate it. So far, it's pretty rubbish. No longer can you right-click on the taskbar to access things like the Task Manager - it's now buried in a 'control-panel' style dialog. There's no Start menu as such (and I believe Microsoft have plugged the workaround people were using to get the Win10 Start menu on Win11). The whole look-and-feel seems like a rather low budget 'theme' applied to the old Win10 environment with rather flat looking icons shoved into a 'control panel' rather than the well accustomed Start Menu.

When you compare this new Win11 to the many flavours of Linux freely available these days (Ubuntu, Zorin, Manjaro etc), it looks & feels dated, flat, uninteresting, and a complete turn-off. I'll persevere with it & keep it running on my HP Compaq machine, but so far I'm sufficiently disappointed with it to say, it's not worth bothering with & I'll either be sticking with Win10 on all my other machines, or else installing Manjaro Linux (or both).
[Windows 11] lpedia:
True. I realised later that the 'smart' double-quotes in the copied reg entry were the reason that the .reg file hadn't worked for me. But running regedit directly did the trick for me.

LOL.

The approach seems to be "Why one click when two or more will do?", and "Why make all the vertical space on the display available?" - putting the Start menu app list another click away, forcing taskbar icon grouping so that what used to be single-click taskbar actions are no longer so easy, gluing the taskbar to the bottom of the screen where it's less convenient to get to, takes up vertical space (unless it's set to auto-hide, which is itself an abomination), and is too close to important buttons in some app windows (at the bottom left of the window).

I can't think of any good reason for any of these changes. Eg, they can't be argued as helping improve touch-screen access, which is supposed to be an objective of Win 11.

And yes, the latest 'feature update' for Win 11 Preview has blocked the registry hack that restored the 'Classic' Start menu.
[Windows 11] hackeroid:
This Link helped me out, hope it fixes your problem too.
[Windows 11] orb3000:
Thank you guys!

Will try it out
[Windows 11] smithbill:
I think Windows 11 is the beginning of the end of Microsoft (at least in terms of desktop Operating Systems).

I realise it's still early days in terms of its look & feel, it's usability & performance etc, but so far, it's sorely lacking when compared to other freely available Operating Systems.

But more than this, the Draconian requirements for Joe Public to have a PC or laptop less than a few years old, reasonable CPU, TPM & SecureBoot, people are just going to say "no, I won't bother, I'm not going to bin my 3year old Desktop that I paid £800 for just so I can use the latest Windows. I'll stick with what I have" And the Linux & ChromeOS, and even Android and Mac/iOS alternatives, will gain in popularity as better choices (and deservedly so in my opinion).
[Windows 11] AmznUser444 Dev:
To install Windows 11 on an old PC by bypassing TPM and Secure Boot using registry

1. Boot Windows 11 from USB media and select your preferred language.

2. On the next page, click Install Now.

3. On Activate Windows page, Press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt window.

4. Type notepad on the command prompt and hit enter.

5. Copy the following and save it as a .REG file format tpmbypass.reg in the source folder.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig]
"BypassTPMCheck"=dword:00000001
"BypassSecureBootCheck"=dword:00000001

6. Once saved, select File > Open and specify All Files for the file type.

7. Find tpmbypass.reg, right-click, and select Merge.

8. Voila, Windows 11 will be installed on your old PC.

If you are stuck on Getting devices ready progress

1. Hold the power button of your PC in 5 seconds to turn it off forcefully and turn it back on.

2. If you see The computer restarted unexpectedly error message, press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt window.

3. Type regedit and hit enter to start Registry Editor.

4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\Status\ChildCompletion and double-click the setup.exe on the right pane.

5. Change the Value Data from 1 to 3 and click OK to save changes.

6. Close Registry Editor and click OK on the error message restart your PC and is now fixed.
[Windows 11] tin2404:
Modifying registry while installing​

3.1 Boot from the Windows 11 installation media

3.2 Start to install, we will see the Error “This PC can’t run Windows 11”

3.3 Use Shift + F10 to open command prompt window

3.4 Type regedit then Press Enter key

3.5 Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup

3.6 Create Item New Key: LabConfig

3.7 Inside of LabConfig,

Create DWORD 32, BypassTPMCheck, Value 00000001

Create DWORD 32, BypassSecureBootCheck, Value 00000001

3.8 Save and Exit Registry Editor

Continue to install/upgrade, we may have another hardware compatibility error during the process, Click Exit, ignore the error and roll back, Use Win + E to open file explorer, Delete C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\AppraiserRes.dll , Launch Windows update again.
[Windows 11] svetius:
did it work?
[Windows 11] orb3000:
No luck yet, I will give a second try this weekend.

Saludos amigo!
[Windows 11] inooodevil:
Follow these steps to bypass Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirements:

Install Windows 11 via bootable installation media we created via Rufus. If your system hardware doesn’t meet the Windows 11 requirements. You will see the following message stating:

“This PC can’t run Windows 11.“

If the above message appears on your screen when installing Windows 11. Press Shift + F10 keys on your keyboard to launch the command prompt window. Type “Regedit” in the command prompt and hit enter to launch the Windows Registry Editor.

Navigate to the following when the registry editor opens: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup

Right-click on the setup folder, and from the submenu, select New>Key.

Name the key you created “LabConfig” when prompted and hit enter.

Right-click on the LabConfig key and select New > DWORD (32-bit) value. Name the value you created BypassTPMCheck. Create two more values with the following names:

BypassRAMCheck

BypassSecureBootCheck

Now double-click on each value you created and set the date to 1 for each.

After configuring all three values under the LabConfig key, close the registry editor.

Next, in the Command Prompt window, type “Exit” and hit enter to close the window.

Now that you are back at the message stating, “This PC can’t run Windows 11,”. On the Windows Setup window, click the back button as shown below.

Doing so will take you back to the screen, prompting you to select the Windows version you want to install.

Proceed without worrying about hardware requirements and install Windows 11.

if you are still facing problems then you can go to yehiweb and read it with screenshots

How To Download And Install Windows 11 [A-Z Guide] | Yehi Web

Here's how to download and install Windows 11 without becoming a Windows Insider.

yehiweb.com
[Windows 11] smithbill:
For those of us who have installed a fresh Windows 11 from ISO (as per the above instructions) and activated it based on a Digital License, does anyone have any idea if it will continue to a) operate on hardware that doesn't meet the TPM/SecureBoot spec b) receive updates, AFTER Microsoft actually release Win11 to the general public? I've read that those who have installed from Win11 ISO's will be able to continue using it, but there's no clarity if a) & b) will apply. Any ideas?

Obviously if Win11 won't operate/update, then it's pointless persevering with it and I may as well go back to Win10 now.
[Windows 11] lpedia:
These recent articles from The Verge might answer some of the questions, but at this stage it sounds like only approved Windows 11 platforms will get updates: Microsoft won’t stop you installing Windows 11 on older PCs but Microsoft is threatening to withhold Windows 11 updates if your CPU is old.

They have been known to back down on such threats before, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
[Windows 11] sd_shadow:
I don't think Microsoft has decided that yet.
[Windows 11] The Root:
Not sure if anyone has run into this, but I had to convert my main drive from mpr to gpt. I've had the main drive forever and now have the hardware to support secure boot. Once I converted it in the Windows recovery everything went smoothly and I was eligible for Win11 through Insider Program.
[Windows 11] Pachacouti:
Tpm 2, aaaargh, my wan got killed so formatted it as a c drive. I got lost in all the Hp install this to install that to install the single whatever that came with the first installation, only to fire it all onto a dos or uefi drive, uefi preffered, but my tpm is 'NOT SEEN' or non existant when it comes to testing this. I bought this lappy for 20 notes after someone accidently pushed an sdcard into the sim slot, and used whatever to rip it back out freezing the bios with a sheilding short.

It took a month to decipher it all enough to reset the bios backup chip that had a previous password, tpm shows, in bios, and in windows, but they instructions provided by Hp leave you solving so many other Hp apps that you lose focus on the point of installing it all...

mine is kinda wrecked...

yet 1.2 is working... wtf?

Tpm keys. (is/are not set)

In my scenario, I got as far as making the usb to load the uefi efi file required to update my tpm, but the tpm keys were not set. I can use 'customer' keys, but being a corporate laptop, the corporate keys were stored in the bios backup chip, not the bios chip I backed up before I realised it was a dual bios, though not used as such...

Without the corporate tpm keys, the customer tpm keys are used, for Tpm 1.2 I'm currently on, tpm customer keys cannot update the tpm, so for me tpm does not show to the tpm 2 updater.

Just some insight through experience :)
[Windows 11] inooodevil:
great experience
[Windows 11] Pachacouti:
Win 11 WILL go on an i7, it went on my i5, hp elitebook 820, but I dropped it when I saw amazon :O
[Windows 11] harrymason37:
Search on Youtube how to install Windows 11 on unsupported devices, you can try it dual boot
[Windows 11] AhmdHL:
my friend TPM is (Trusted Platform Module) and its a part that comes with intel processors gen 8 and newer for security purposes

and if u dont have it ur pc wont install Windows 11 officially

in order to install Windows 11 1-Download the iso from Microsoft website and flash it on flash drive or CD

or 2-Use media create tool (cant remember the exact name) also from Microsoft web and download the iso and flash it through the app and for unsupported PCs this is a better option
[Windows 11] akshaykumar23399:
go to BIOS and turn on TPM on and it will work you and take help from windows 11 website for it
[Windows 11] persona78:
Hi!

I managed to install W11 on my unsupported PC... No suported CPU (I5 650), no TPM installed of any kind, etc, just a old and regular PC!

The method uses the script "Skip TPM Check on Dynamic Update v7, AveYo 2021" and the original (CLEAN) windows 11 software that was downloaded to a pendrive by MediaCreationToolW11.exe tool from Microsoft.

I create a litle exe from batch to make it easy to install.

Untill now it seems to be working fine!

I let the link to Post here!
[Windows 11] HolyHog:
It can be even easier than that. Just copy the appraiserres.dll from your Windows 10 source folder to your Windows 11 Source folder. Fire off setup and there you go. I have installed 11 on a 2012 I3 PC with 4 megs of ram using this method. And you can get updates as normal.

You can delete the Win 11 version of appraiserres.dll as all it does is say check this and this and don't install unless you have this and this.
[Windows 11] shoaibiqbal123:
Depends upon the motherboard model, if your recent gen mob, like from 2020 or above then it must have TMP 2.0 you just have to enable it from bios. But if you have old mob then you have to use bypass method to install win 11
[Windows 11] persona78:
Hi! I tryed this method to test it and doens´t worked...
[Windows 11] HolyHog:
I think Microsoft has blocked it on newer versions. I have some original Versions that it works with. I will check which version it will work with when I get home.
[Windows 11] deshaney:
Just download the iso and install via USB... Microsoft has confirmed this is the only way unsupported machines can update
[Windows 11] lpedia:
The method pointed out by @Frax3r in the thread linked to earlier by @persona78 is very simple: use Rufus 3.18 to create a bootable installer from a standard Win11 iso. Select the image option "Extended Windows 11 Installation (no TPM / no Secure Boot)" to burn the iso to a thumb drive or USB drive, then just install or upgrade as usual. This successfully upgraded a 2016 no-TPM laptop from Windows 10 for me.

Windows Update works normally on the upgraded device.
[Windows 11] persona78:
I check, works but I don't know how safe it is because it changes some files from setup. I compare the files from pendrive to the files from iso.

No vírus detected, sure, but I don't know about back doors...

It creates to a hidden file system in pendrive that only can be deleted by formatting pendrive, or by taking ownership but still cannot be Acessed.

Just zip the pendrive and you will see it but DONT extract, is a headache...