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
    2021-06-25T22:49:05+00:00

    The program is PC Health Check

    You can learn more about it from :  How to check if your PC can run Windows 11? (thewindowsclub.com)

    I am not connected with thewindowsclub.com but it has some helpful Window s information and I have not had a bad download from them.  I believe the link they give is to the actual Microsoft site.  

    Please be aware. The PC Health check may not be accurate on some devices.  They recently made some changes to better ID TPM on laptops but some issues persist.   On my device it ID's the  build number as one much older than on the machine.

    Am going to guess that by next week they will have that ironed out and we will get more accurate results.

    Suggest checking the box to save it to your desktop so you can periodically run the test .  

    There are many other useful tips in here in community that will help.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-25T22:50:32+00:00

    I have been knocked off Window 11 preview due to " incompatible processor"  I am running:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.60 GHz.  TPM 2.0.  Is this a mistake?

    Sorry to say, but the 8th generation(coffee lake) series is the min cpu requirement for Windows 11.  

    Fully Supported Intel CPU Support

    • Intel 8th Gen (Coffee Lake)
    • Intel 9th Gen (Coffee Lake)
    • Intel 10th Gen (Comet Lake)
    • Intel 10th Gen (Ice Lake) – Mobile
    • Intel 11th Gen (Rocket Lake)
    • Intel 11th Gen (Tiger Lake) – Mobile
    • Intel Xeon Skylake-SP
    • Intel Xeon Cascade Lake-SP
    • Intel Xeon Cooper Lake-SP
    • Intel Xeon Ice Lake-SP
    • Various Intel Pentium Bronze, Silver, and Gold
    • Various Intel Celeron

    Fully Supported AMD CPU

    • Various AMD Athlon
    • AMD Ryzen 2000
    • AMD Ryzen 3000
    • AMD Ryzen 4000
    • AMD Ryzen 5000
    • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2000
    • AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000
    • AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3000
    • AMD EPYC 2nd Gen
    • AMD EPYC 3rd Gen

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-25T22:59:26+00:00

    Changing from MBR to GPT requires reinstalling Windows , right ?  

    That is like re-formatting the drive.  Also, what does than mean for the Windows 'hidden' partition sizes and locations ?

    Similarly ,  how to change from Legacy to UEFI without reinstall ?  

    Isn't that part of the groundwork done before Window actually sets up shop ?  

    Have always preferred Legacy mode (still sometimes need to boot Win 7) but looks like Win 11 won't accept that like Win 10 did. So people who were used to dual booting Win10 and Win7 can use them for now but likely not a possibility for W11.  With UEFI, TPM, and (looks like) No more 'local' accounts it will be a different world indeed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-25T23:04:41+00:00

    The app was very useful and more accurate that the PC Health check in describing my hardware.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-25T23:05:10+00:00

    Guys I can really can’t understand. I am using Windows on bootcamp on my MacBook Pro 2017. I am understand that I don’t have TPM on this model... but I have installed leaked build with some cheating while update from Windows 10.  Will I receive future insider builds?

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