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I'm using an ASUS bought new from their business line in 2015 [first new OEM Desktop I hadn't built in more than 25 years], haven't had the problems we see posted on forums such as this and have never needed to do a clean install on it. Even the older machines I built don't have issues.
I'm with cereberus on this. In my experience you can upgrade to the latest Win10 build direct from any earlier version.
My System One below has had no problems updating, starting life as an OEM Windows 7 install, taking the free update to W10 (build 10240) in August 2015, then every feature update since up to and including W10 21H2. That installed OS was then cloned to a new 'Windows 11 Ready' machine where it successfully upgraded to Windows 11 to become my System One on Eleven Forum .
Subsequently, I took the old machine back to an image of its Windows 10, version 1607 then let Windows Update successfully upgrade that direct to 20H2.
Adventures in space and time - 1607 revisited, then upgradedBree said:
Good to know when the time comes!!
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BREE will this work and is that what you did for a Win11 install?
- 1Press Win+r and type regedit.
- 2Now, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\MoSetup.
- 3Right-click on the left side and create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value.
- 4Use the name AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU.
- 5Switch value to 1.
Those instruction come straight from the Microsoft-supplied workaround that I linked to in post #17. They should work, though I haven't tried them myself.
For an in-place upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on an unsupported device the simplest workaround is to delete appraserres.dll during the upgrade. I show how I do that in post #4 here:
Need help upgrading to Windows 11 on an old TOSHIBA Laptop | Windows 11 Forum
I have Windows 11 on my machines that support it, and am keeping Windows 10 on those that don't. There isn't really a lot of difference between 10 and 11 once you get past the new layout of the Start menu and the Settings app. Apart from tightening up on security the OS itself is fundamentally the same. And those 'new' security features (such as Core Isolation) are the same in 10 as in 11, it's just that they're off by default in 10 and on by default in 11.
Unless you have a spare machine to play on then I'd advise sticking to 10 for any unsupported machines you rely on for daily use.
I do have 'spares' and can afford to 'play', but only with a machine I'm prepared to wipe and restore to Win10 should it all go wrong. My lowest spec unsupported 'test' machine is running a Windows 10 to Windows 11 upgrade on a 1st gen i5 with a Legacy/MBR install.
There is no pressing need to update to Win11, even on your supported machine, before Win10 reaches end of support in October 2025.
You should definitely update from Windows 10 version 1909 though, that version has not had any new security updates since May 2021. I do hope your 20H2 was a typo, next month's Patch Tuesday cumulative update will be its last. You should update to 21H2, the latest version of Windows 10.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lif...0-home-and-proMicrosoft said: