Preparing for Insider Preview Builds of Windows 11 - ***UPDATED 6/28***

Anonymous
2021-06-24T16:00:22+00:00

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we announced Windows 11, and we know you are excited to get your hands on it. You can check out all the details on how to prepare for Windows 11 Insider Preview builds on our blog post.

Once you've reviewed the blog, please use this post to ask any related questions you may have.

We are excited to hear your feedback!!

-The Windows Insider Team

***UPDATE***

For users who are receiving the following message in your Windows Insider Settings:

Your PC does not meet the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 11. Your device may continue to receive Insider Preview builds until Windows 11 is generally available, at which time it is recommended to clean install to Windows 10.

We've made an update to Settings to resolve some issues. Please reboot your device to ensure you have the latest update.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-28T22:41:15+00:00

    Hi,

    Just finished upgrading my systems to 11, here are some queries I've got after the upgrades...

    The main rig, meets and exceeds all requirements, upgraded smoothly, and appears to be working fine.

    2nd PC meets all requirements apart from the CPU (i7-6700, Really MS?) upgraded smoothly apart from whereas it was Window 10 Pro, after the upgrade, it was 11 Home, tried using my Pro key to upgrade, and I get a message "We can't activate Windows on this device at the moment, You can try activating again later, or go to the Store to buy genuine Windows (0x80070490) My Pro key is genuine from Microsoft, so I guess they've downgraded me due to not meeting requirements?

    3rd test laptop, old Core Duo T9500, 8gb ram, no secure boot, no TPM - Windows update gets to 8% and I get the White box pops up saying "Checking System", then fails test due to No TPM, No secure boot. I was under the impression that as an Insider on Dev Channel, it would ignore the requirement and just warn me about not meeting them?

    I also can't change my Insider setting from the Dev channel, it's the only option setting gives me? apart from leaving the program on that device.

    Surface Pro Gen 1, all well apart from Windows warning me I don't meet requirements, but installed and is running fine.

    Anyone else run into the issues I've had on my 2nd or 3rd device at all, any way around been found?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-28T22:28:44+00:00

    I seriously hope there's more 6th gen intel users here to show microsoft how well its running so far. Honestly cannot fault it one bit so far

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  3. Neil D 34,310 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-28T22:00:17+00:00

    You had to be on the Dev channel as of 24th June or before. Have you just joined or been using Windows 10 Insider for some time, what channel were you on previously?

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-28T21:51:20+00:00

    i have a good computer and it doesnt let me get windows 11. it also wont even let me do any other insider channel besides the regular "release preview channel" help pls

    i enabled tpm 2.0, and secure boot. i match all the requirements too.
    why doesnt it just tell us what we need for it instead of "you cant run it" "go to a link that might not help"

    pls

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-28T21:50:43+00:00

    Jordan go into your BIOS and turn ON the TPM module, then you're good to go!!

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