Windows 11 is being released on June 24 ....confused ?

Matthew Wai said:

Why have they imposed such a ban?

I dunno, but this reeks of Windows RT!

This is alarming, as this is coming from a person who isn't crying about the Windows installer rejecting a socket 775 system or a socket 1366 system.

It's alarming, because of B450 chipset and 3rd-gen Ryzen systems appearing to be affected! Even banning X79, would be alarming! FFS!

Matthew Wai said:

Hopefully, Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 are fake.

I have W11 working on my 7 year old Dell laptop which doesn't have TPM support

Matthew Wai said:

Did you clean install it? If so, how?

I did this:

1. Installed W11 in Hyper V and checked for malware
2. Created a spare 30GB partition and cloned the Hyper V W11 .vhdx file to that partition using Reflect
3. Set the new W11 drive / partition as a boot menu option
4. Booted to the W11 drive. W11 then installed all the laptop drivers needed.
5. Activated the installation using the generic W10 key VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T. Whether it stays activated remains to be seen. I checked my W10 installation activation isn't screwed up but it isn't since it still has its original key.

Matthew Wai said:

Would you consider writing a detailed tutorial about that?
Some idiots like me may not even know what "Hyper V" is.

See Hyper-V virtualization - Setup and Use in Windows 10
I was such an idiot until I worked through the excellent tutorial!

Matthew Wai said:

My PC has no TPM.

Code:

PS C:\Windows\system32> WMIC /namespace:\\root\cimv2\security\MicrosoftTPM path Win32_TPM
No Instance(s) Available.

ASUS x570, x470 and x370 motherboards and TPM | Windows 11 Forum


Some Intel info also in that topic.



Some motherboards have TPM connectors for a TPM Module (usually sold separately), some have TPM chips soldered to the motherboard, and some, like mine have ONLY firmware TPM.
Firmware TPM has to be enabled in the BIOS.

As for laptops... I haven't got a clue.