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Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?

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On Mon, 1/13/2025 4:42 PM, Chris wrote:
> 
> So 2025 will be win10 upgrade year, so what's the cheapest/simplest upgrade
> path for hardware and software?
> 
> I have a home desktop PC based around a Coffee Lake i3 which isn't win11
> compatible. It's not often used, but I don't want to get rid of it so
> what's the sweet spot cpu/mobo these days? I'd like to keep the RAM,
> SSD/NVMe, PSU, etc. 
> 
> Can I transfer my win10 pro license key to win11? What do I lose if just
> use an unlicensed version of windows?
> 

Prepare win11 media, using Rufus.ie USB preparation tool. You can run the
Setup.exe off the USB stick, when you are finished, and do a W11-over-W10
installation. A backup before hand, is recommended (so you can go back to
Windows 10 more easily). Rufus.ie is a web site in Ireland, and that's
the address you'll be entering in your browser. Current version is 4.6p (portable).

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/9Q0kMWTB/Rufus-Boot-Stick-Preparation.gif

If you know your PC doesn't have a TPM, doesn't have 16GB of RAM,
doesn't have an NPU, doesn't have the POPCNT instruction, there
are tick boxes in a separate dialog Rufus puts up, which are
used to disable detection of these kinds of things. My Optiplex 780,
is an example of a machine (E8400 Core2 Duo) that cannot make the trip
to Windows 11. That's an example of how old the machine has to be, to fail entirely.
The E8400 does not have SSE 4.2 or the POPCNT instruction. The E8400 is from the
year 2008.

There is more similar information, in this post.

   http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=msgid&MSGI=%3Cvlcjv2%24mlb7%241%40dont-email.me%3E

Once Rufus has installed the materials, and Windows 11 has booted, you can check with
this command in an administrator window.

    slmgr /dlv

I did the Rufus method on my 4930K (no TPM) and it is installed and running.
I will check now, and see if the license is "copied" to Windows 11.

Notice in this photo, that even though the license for the machine is
based on a sequence of Professional, I have on purpose installed Home
and the Professional license works as a Home license. Part of doing this,
was to make sure that Rufus defeated the encryption of C: for the Home edition.

   [Picture]

    https://i.postimg.cc/PqHvqrK1/Disk33-dual-boot-Win11-Home-Rufus-PNG.gif

   Paul

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Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-13 21:42 +0000
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