Windows 11 available on October 5

Barman58 said:

The fact is that you can always obtain the updates from Microsoft manually, they do not (AFIK) check eligibility for the updates.

Microsoft has stated that support will not be provided if you install on a non compliant system and have issues. This does sound like a legal statement - A get out Clause.
People may well be fine running Win 11 on a non compliant system, but they will be on their own if it goes wrong, ( or relient on the good folks here to help them out)

In 40 years of using MS software (go MSBASIC!), I have never once, not ever, gotten a lick of help from them for any issue. We have pretty much been on our own all along (unless, I suppose, if you are an Enterprise user). I totally rely on the community for help and comparing notes and whatnot.

I totally rely on Macrium ...........if ( ?) installing Win11 !
btw; not in a hurry at all..........

Barman58 said:

At one time I was dealing with hardware and software specification, purchase, installation, and maintenance, and got a lot of assistance from most suppliers, but none from Microsoft directly, the OS at the time was NT 3.1, NT4.0 and NT5.0, (Windows 2000), and so luckily I did not require much, if any, OS help, those OS's just worked

I still think Windows 2000 was the best Windows - It was my daily driver for nearly 10 years, and could handle anything I threw at it without a hiccup.

mart1981 said:

Using 10 Home so no GPEdit. No big deal as only see it maybe once a week but is there another way of doing this.

Maybe MS will start using the space to promote their hardware soon!!! - LOL

Run this batch file in command prompt using admin and you will have GPEdit enabled.

gpedit-enabler.bat

I gave my mother my old R9 3900X so her machine would qualify for 11 and then I clean installed it for her. It didn't take very long to restore her apps so she's happy and now that everything in the house has been upgraded I can get back to doing other things.

Joan Archer said:

I've just had a quick look in my Device Manager and apparently I have TPM 2 showing under Security on this HP laptop, but hopefully it won't be installed as there isn't enough room for it.

If it shows under Device Manager than what you have is the firmware-based TPM that is there and ready to use.