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

6th gen wasn't mentioned but I'm using i5 6500 and everything is perfect, performance hasn't dropped and infact, it's actually improved. They will look at 6th gen too if there's more of us (6th gen users) here as we also have tpm 2.0 embedded

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This worked for me today. If your Intel CPU is less than five years old this should work for you as well:

1. Using Powershell Admin, execute the MBR2GPT command if necessary to convert your system disk format to GPT, which is a minimum requirement for the following steps.
2. Reboot into your BIOS screen and go to Advanced. Mine is an ASUS mobo so translate accordingly.
3. You must change your CPU secure boot mode from TPM discrete to TPM Firmware.
4. You then change your UEFI boot mode from "Other OS" to "Windows UEFI Mode". This comes with a warning, but you took care of that in step 1.
5. Save your changes and allow the boot process to continue. If all went according to plan, you will get your windows login screen. You can then check for Windows 11 compatibility once again. Voila!
6. Count yourself smart for not running out and over-paying for an external TPM ;)

Do not worry about destroying anything on your system disk. The tool specifically avoids that, as I can vouch for. Why nobody explained this all in one place before now (that I can find anywhere online) is a mystery to me.

If Windows won't boot after doing the above steps, change the settings in steps 3 and 4 back to what they were and then you can boot again. This means you didn't complete step 1 properly, or that your CPU does not support TPM, in which case you may need to add a TPM to your mobo or upgrade your CPU.

You're welcome :)

So I have a Core i7-7XX generation laptop with 64GB and 2TB NVMe with NVIDIA GPU. TPM 2.0 secure boot, UEFI stack etc...

apparently Microsoft have made a decision that they don't need customers with 7th generation Core CPUs , and can definitely live without them . It is of course their business decision - on my part - after 20+ years it will be an easy decision for me to move to other platform - Linux or OS X - here i come ...Good luck to the rest of you .!

Hi.

Thank you fir your input.

But to be honest, it does not change my perspective at all.

BTW, I think your wife's laptop needs a new HDD, preferably an SSD.

I disagree whit your statement that older hardware can not run W10.

The machine I'm typing this reply on is a HP Elitebook 8570P it was made for W7 if I remember correctly, it was at least released on 27 October 2012 , It took W10  like a champ, and has been running W10 for years and years now. Its currently running W11, because it actually did have TPM and Secure boot. it runs just like w10, other then the visual change, the performance is exactly the same. or at least not noticeably different.

But I have more laptops, and desktops.

My Acer Aspire E1-572p released 2013-08-26 has secure boot, but does not have TPM, so of course that would not take W11, it to has been running W10 for years, whit no issue at all, except the HDD dying, and needing to change to legacy boot to accept W10 on the new SSD I bought for it :)

I have a few other laptops to, but i have not had the time to check them yet, they are all acers, so I don't think they will meet the requirements

However, my workstation that i use for my 3d printers, and for ripping dvd/blue ray to add to my plex server, is a n HP Z400, being x58 and releaced Q3 2009, it does not support UEFI and secure boot. it is supposed to have TPM though, but it to has been running W10 for years whit no issue.

Now my plex server is also a HP z400 but that is running unraid.

My gaming PC is an i7 3770 from April 2012, so of course it has neither secure boot, nor TPM. It has as all my other systems been running W10 for years, whit no issue at all. but wont take W11 due to some arbitrary security that I personally don't need.

I can not justify replacing / upgrading 4-5 computers that work perfectly fine, just because of an (in my opinion) pointless feature, that I will not see any advantage from.

Yes I get it, the internet is a dangerous place for many people, and yes I do approve that MS is working to improve security. But I disapprove in them making their security measures mandatory.

Point is, this requirement will make a lot of e-vaste, Unless they decide to support W10 for longer. Most people wont want to play around whit Linux to prolong the life of their hard ware, and it will get thrown out.

And I for one think that is both stupid, and sad, when there is so much more use in most old hardware, old being 10 + years old. especially if all you do is surf the web, or do word processing and similar.