Hi everyone,

For all the smart guys guys and gals out there:

I have been playing around a little with Windows 11. I took one of the our spare desktops, and tried to install this. Message came up saying hardware not compatible.

So, as I was looking, it appears that there are 3 possible areas of concern.
1. System firmware: requires UEFI, secure boot capable. Mine has BIOS mode legacy
2. TPM: Trusted platform module version 2.0 required, mine indicates "cannot find".
3. Graphics card: Compatible with DirectX 12 or later with WDDM 2.0 driver, mine is 1.2.

My guess is that these are not "correctable", and that the computer cannot be upgraded to Windows 11.

The problem is….Most of our computers are of this vintage. So I suspect similar issues will occur across the board.

It looks like Windows 10 has 4 more years of support, so there is absolutely no urgency to this. But I had wanted to try to get a bit of experience with with Windows 11.

Any comments/suggestions?

Thanks.

Gene

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