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
    2021-06-27T03:17:59+00:00

    Ok here's my 2 cents. LOL  

    They said that TPM has been around for the last 5 - 7 years.  

    “Almost every CPU in the last 5-7 years has a TPM,” explains David Weston, director of enterprise and OS security at Microsoft.

    If that's the case, then those CPU's should be supported to be able to upgrade to Windows 11.  

    My PC, which is 3 yrs old, has TPM2.0  And passes every requirement except the CPU.

    I think Weston's tweet was referring to "CPU" in the generic sense, as a computer, not as a central processing unit. (Nine out of 10 people think a 'CPU' is a complete, assembled computer and only vaguely guess at what a 'processor' is.) It is my understanding that a TPM is a physical module that is installed in a motherboard, either soldered in at the factory or plugged into a TPM motherboard header. (One of my motherboard's has a TPM header, but there is no TPM on the motherboard.)

    So that's why you can have TPM enabled in the UEFI but your CPU still does not pass the CPU (processor) threshold that Microsoft has set. Speculation: With the case of so many relatively current Intel series CPUs not qualifying, it would lead me to believe the reason has do due with the multitude of security bugs endemic to previous Intel chip series due to the company's chip architecture shortcuts (my opinion on 'shortcuts').

    This is my problem too. i9 10900k, 2060 super , and many tbs of free space. S=till no TPM .  I have emailed Gigabyte about that. The motherbord has a TPM header but no TPM to plug in.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-27T03:24:49+00:00

    Does anyone know how to get PC Health Check to do the check if you're running a home server?  Because my PC is tied to a server, all PC Health Check tells me if my PC is managed by my organization (which is me) and doesn't do anything.  Looking at the minimum specs, the only thing I think that might be an issue is the TPM requirement, which I need to look into for my motherboard (it's about a year and a half old).

    I get the same message on the Insider page under Settings/Update.

    As far as I know, Microsoft has promised to update the tool for that message in the next few weeks. Try using this alternate.

    https://github.com/rcmaehl/WhyNotWin11/releases

    New version 2.2.1.0 .

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-27T03:26:22+00:00

    My  Laptop meets  the  requirements and  I  am  in  Beta  Channel, Will  I  get  the  windows 11 beta  next  week or  at  the  end  of  this  summer !?

    Next week for Development channel, no date for Beta yet.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-06-27T03:34:23+00:00

    I  have  an  I9,   96  gb  ram,   2  tb  hard  drive  1080xti  card  with  4  gb  ram  and  I  do   it  meet  the  quals for  windows  11?  Not  to  mention  have  been  on  the  team  since  2004.  Wow.   Thanks  so  much

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-27T03:52:05+00:00

    I have an issue as I have intel i9 11th gen, 32GB of RAM and NVIDIA RTX3090 graphics card.

    And my pc does not support the requirements for windows 11.

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