Thread by @Barnacules

Your PC telling you it’s not compatible with Windows 11? Just add this registry key & restart install 😎

Reg Path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup

Create DWORD 32bit Key Named “AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU”

Set it’s value to “1”

Now restart setup & share 👍🏻 #TechTip

If you’re doing a clean install from media & not upgrade from within Windows 10 you can use the latest version of Rufus to create media that automatically bypasses it 👍🏻 #TechTips #Windows11

You can also hit SHIFT+F10 when setup loads booting from media to open CMD windows and then add registry key before proceeding to the “compatibility check” which also should work. The compatibility check is illusionary & Windows 11 works just fine without TPM or supported CPU 😏

I also confirmed all these methods still work on 22H2 which is the latest public release 👍🏻

Just used this hack to upgrade my bedroom @PugetSystems HTPC from Windows 10 to Windows 11 22H2 👍🏻 #Hack #Bypass #WindowsTips

You have to admit it’s funny how many undocumented backdoors exist in the Windows product that slip publicly from employees and such! There are a few other registry keys that do the same thing so my guess is many devs internally used this since their dev machines failed checks 😂

And away we go 🍿 7th gen Intel CPU works just fine with Windows 11 👏