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What is critical Windows 11 hardware

From	Oliver <ollie@invalid.net>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	What is critical Windows 11 hardware
Date	2025-02-04 01:15 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<vnsiae$1p6eq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I have a BIOS (not UEFI) desktop so I read this with interest.
Microsoft hides workaround for installing Windows 11 on older PCs
https://www.techspot.com/news/106619-microsoft-hides-official-workaround-installing-windows-11-older.html

What they say is Microsoft has been routinely removing its online support
articles about Windows 11. The "ways to install" the operating system have
recently been revised, and there are now no official workarounds for
installing the latest Windows release to unsupported, older machines.

But what is really critical hardware for Windows 11?
Versus what is just nice to have (which I probably do not have)?

Apparently one issue is TPM 2.0 which I don't have, as I entered tpm.msc
trusted platform module management console which said I don't have it.

But apparently you don't really need TPM 2.0 so it's confusing what is
actually critical for installing Windows 11 vs which is just nice to have.

But they provided a wayback machine snapshot of the missing page.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240929145620/https:/support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ways-to-install-windows-11-e0edbbfb-cfc5-4011-868b-2ce77ac7c70e

Before I do any of that to upgrade to Windows 11, what else should I test
on my desktop PC which is currently running Windows 10 Pro?

All I want to test for is the presence (or not) of just the most critical
mandatory Windows-11-required hardware as I won't have the nice-to-have hw.

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What is critical Windows 11 hardware Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2025-02-04 01:15 -0700
  Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-04 06:39 -0500
  Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-04 11:50 +0000
    Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Oliver <ollie@invalid.net> - 2025-02-04 15:36 -0700
  Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-04 07:35 -0500
    Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-04 08:39 -0500
      Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-04 14:09 +0000
        Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) - 2025-02-04 21:13 +0000
          Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-04 19:49 -0500
            Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-05 03:53 -0800
              Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-05 04:02 -0800
              Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-05 09:28 -0500
              Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-02-05 17:55 -0600
          Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-02-04 19:13 -0600
            Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-05 12:10 +0000
              Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-02-05 12:55 +0000
  Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-06 13:26 +0000
    Re: What is critical Windows 11 hardware Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-06 17:04 +0000

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