Microsoft really doesn’t want you to install Windows 11 on your “old” pc

Microsoft really doesn’t want you to install Windows 11 on your “old” pc


While Windows 10 arrives at the end of life this year, Microsoft tightens the screw concerning the possibility of installing its new OS on non -compatible machines.

Credit: Microsoft

Windows 11 began its existence with a controversy. The material eligibility conditions required by the latest Microsoft operating system have indeed left many computers on the tile. Fortunately, so far an “official” technique made it possible to update your PC without too much trouble. But Microsoft no longer wants to hear about it now.

As noticed NeoWinfor a few days, the official documentation of the firm has erased all traces relating to alternative installation methods

End of hack of the register editor

So far, the Windows 11 installation methods page on the Microsoft site indicated possible DIY in the registry editor to bypass the famous TPM 2.0 verification which makes so many ineligible machines. If the firm said that “Serious problems can arise if you change the register incorrectly“She gave a” official “method to switch her” old “PC on Windows 11 to switch her” old “.

Since the deployment of the 24H2 version of the system, on the other hand, it would seem that this small box has been deleted from the site, on the American pages, just like on the French. If the documentation still lists the methods “not recommended»Update, it no longer indicates how to update the register to bypass the checks relating to TPM 2.0.

The missing box of the site // Source: Wayback Machine

Worse still the “Flyby11” tool, which made it possible to switch a machine on the new OS without worrying too much about the material constraints imposed by Microsoft, is now labeled as potential malware by Microsoft’s antivirus.

A race against the clock

It would therefore seem that Microsoft is trying to put an end to all non -approved upgrade methods. It must be said that the transition promises to be complicated for the firm. Windows 10 still keeps 60.33 % market share in the computer bone sector, while Windows 11 is less than 40 %.

Microsoft has done everything possible to encourage people to switch to Windows 11, even if it means downright advising people to buy a new PC. A highly toxic approach for the environment, by the way.

To go further
End of Windows 10: Microsoft makes Windows 11 temporarily

The most skillful Internet users will be able to continue installing Windows 11 on non-compatible machines with a whole bunch of tools and phrase, but Microsoft does not officially want to soften these methods.


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