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Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?

From Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path?
Date 2025-01-15 07:00 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <vm7mep$2rq2u$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
> 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).

Thanks. Will have a look. What's a recommended backup solution these days?
I have Macrium 7 free edition which I gather isn't supported any more. 

>    [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
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-13 17:45 -0500
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 07:00 +0000
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Hank Rogers <invalid@nospam.com> - 2025-01-15 07:56 +0000
        Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:12 -0700
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 10:54 -0700
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 18:10 +0000
      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-15 03:30 -0500
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-01-13 16:54 -0600
  Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Windows 11 24H2 User <fvgtgfrf@juiklopjhy.com> - 2025-01-13 22:40 +0000
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      Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-14 03:52 -0700
        Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? john@jeasonNoSpam.cix.co.uk (John K.Eason) - 2025-01-14 12:05 +0000
          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ  <winstonmvp@gmail.com> - 2025-01-14 12:39 -0700
    Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-15 07:00 +0000
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          Re: Win10 -> 11 upgrade path? Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-01-14 08:43 -0500
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